# CD review: Eliane Elias – Mirror Mirror 2021: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2021/09/23/cd-review-eliane-elias-mirror-mirror-2021-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2021-09-23T22:10:57+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Over the course of a distinguished career spanning nearly 30 albums, multi-GRAMMY-
winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias’ distinctive musical style has emerged
as one of the most unique and immediately recognisable sounds in jazz. **

With over 2.2 million albums sold to date, Elias blends her Brazilian roots and 
alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, classical and compositional
skills, while she consistently displays her pianistic mastery and ability to integrate
the many artistic roles she takes on.

These duets, which form the album, are with two legendary pianists who have strongly
influenced her work; The late, great Chick Corea, and Cuban pianist and composer
Chuco Valdes.

The album is an instrumental blend of Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, inside the deep-
rooted Latin Jazz tradition of Elias’ music.

Multi GRAMMY® winning pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias’ latest album MIRROR 
MIRROR on Candid Records is a lifelong musical dream come true—an extraordinary 
piano duet recording of Eliane with the late legendary jazz great Chick Corea, and
famed Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés. While her highly successful recordings have predominantly
featured her alluring voice and piano mastery, the piano has always been her first
love and working with these two incredible icons was a rare opportunity to record
in a two-piano setting, something she hasn’t done in many years.

For the world-renowned performer, this organically created collection represents
more than simply a culmination of an illustrious career that includes nearly 30 
recordings, over 2.3 million albums sold, nine total GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY nominations,
a GRAMMY win for Best Latin Jazz Album (Made in Brazil, 2016) and a Latin GRAMMY
win for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album (Dance of Time, 2017). MIRROR MIRROR marks the
classically trained pianist’s first piano-only recording since 1995’s Solos and 
Duets, a set of piano solos and six duets with pianist Herbie Hancock.

The recordings took place in NYC at Yamaha’s Artist Services in Manhattan with Corea
and Brooklyn’s Bunker Studios with Valdés. It features Chick on four tracks, Chucho
on three and was produced by Elias with her award-winning team of co-producers Marc
Johnson and Steve Rodby, and mixed and mastered by Rich Breen. Though Corea and 
Valdés alternate in the track list with the opening Corea duet “Armando’s Rhumba”
followed by the Valdés duet “Esta Tarde Vi Llover” before the next Corea duo “Blue
Bossa,” etc., the flow is remarkably seamless.

1. Armando’s Rhumba (6:08)
 2. Esta Tarde Vi Llover (6:27) 3. Blue Bossa (5:48) 
4. Corazón Partío (11:33) 5. Mirror Mirror (4:54) 6. Sabor A Mi (6:45) 7. There
Will Never Be Another You (6:15)

![Eliane Elias - Mirror Mirror](https://i0.wp.com/www.birdland.com.au/assets/full/
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