Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans

Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans
Studio album by Eliane Elias
Released	15 January 2008
Studio	Avatar Studios, New York.
Genre	Jazz, post-bop
Length	1:03:05
Label	Blue Note 50999 5 11795 2 6
Producer	Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Steve Rodby
Eliane Elias chronology
Around the City (2006)Around the City2006 Something for You (2008) Bossa Nova Stories (2008)Bossa Nova Stories2008

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
All About Jazz	[2]
PopMatters	[3]
The Guardian	[4]

Something for You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans is the eightheenth studio album by Brazilian jazz artist Eliane Elias. It was released on 15 January 2008 via Blue Note label.^[5]

Background

This is one of her most critically acclaimed albums with both Allmusic and all About Jazz giving it 4½ stars out of five. The album includes two Evans' compositions recently discovered by her husband, bassist Marc Johnson, on a cassette that Bill Evans gave him shortly before he died: "Evanesque" and "Here Is Something for You". Elias actually recreated "Evanesque" from the elements of Evans’ original composition.^[6] Elias also wrote lyrics to the song "Here Is Something for You", incorporating allusions to other tunes and pieces associated with Evans. She performs vocal parts on six of the seventeen cuts.

Reception

Doug Ramsey of Jazz Times wrote "Like so many jazz pianists of her generation, Eliane Elias formed her musical sensibility under the spell of Bill Evans. In this collection, she makes plain the extent and depth of his influence as well as her own expressive growth in the three decades since she first heard Evans. She demonstrates both aspects in a reduction of “I Love My Wife.” Less than half as long as Evans’ 1978 recording, the Elias performance does not reach his rhythmic intensity. But she finds the song’s emotional core and manages to approximate on one piano much of the harmonic density and complexity of line that Evans achieved by overdubbing three piano tracks."^[7]

Ken Dryden of Allmusic noted "Eliane Elias' return to the Blue Note label after a decade working elsewhere is a triumph. This salute to the late pianist Bill Evans, one of her favorite players, explores a number of songs he recorded, including both standards and originals. Evans' bassist from his final trio, Marc Johnson, is not only a long-time collaborator with Elias but also her husband; drummer Joey Baron rounds out the band. While Elias is influenced by Evans' playing style, his arrangements are only a launching pad for her approach to each tune; never does she sound like an obvious Evans clone.^[8]

Track listing

Credits

Band

• Eliane Elias – piano, vocals, producer
• Marc Johnson – bass, co-producer
• Joey Baron – drums
• Bill Evans – piano (track 17)

Production

• Kaoru Taku – art direction
• Steve Rodby – co-producer
• Ken Arai – coordinator
• Hitoshi Namekata – executive producer
• Don Heckman – liner notes
• Mark Wilder – mastering
• Al Schmidt – recording

References

External links

• Official website