ELIANE ELIAS & MARC JOHNSON Interview

In 2004 I did a series for BBC Radio 2 “Inside Improvisation”. Eliane Elias is an award-winning Brazilian pianist, composer and singer with many Grammy nominated albums. Her husband Marc Johnson was the bassist for Bill Evans’ last trio and has many albums as a leader. I asked Elias and Johnson to demonstrate the differences between mainstream jazz and Brazilian rhythms and their remarkable musical communication is  a joy for your ears to behold. Apologies for the bad sound but we recorded this in a traffic noisy New York apartment.