Canto on Guitar [Import]

Baden Powell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Int'l
• ASIN: B00002622E
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #673,870 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Samba Em Preludio

2. Tres Themas Da Fe Afro Brasileira

3. Marcha Escocesa

4. Tributo A Um Amigo

5. Qua Quara Qua Qua

6. Cegos Do Nordeste

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly energetic brazilian Jazz, May 14, 2004

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Aldo Mosca (Sonoma, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canto on Guitar (Audio CD)

Recorded in Europe in 1970, it contains some more shining examples of Baden Powell's high-octane playing, as well as his career-long quest to syncretize the Jazz quartet format with the traditional music formats of Brazil. This synthesis doesn't limit itself to samba and bossa-nova. For starters, the "Three themes of Afro-Brazilian Faith" blends -one more time- candomble themes (i.e. the Brazilian Santeria) with jazz in three new "afro-sambas": Pai, Filho and Espirito Santo (these are individual tracks that are not listed in the CD list. "Pai" was re-arranged and re-recorded in later releases).

"Cegos Do Nordeste" is a foray into sertao music (Brazilian north-east desert area) where he makes his classical guitar sound like a viola caipira (a 5 double-course guitar). Rounding up the offer, he also includes his old standards, the samba de breque "Vou deitar e rolar" (aka "Quaquaraquaqua", this time done as a super fast, semi-instrumental jazz piece) and his "Marcha Escocesa".