Baden Powell - The Guitar Artistry of Baden Powell (1991) [Hi-Res]

Baden Powell, (Roberto Baden Powell de Aquino), Brazilian guitarist and composer (born Aug. 6, 1937, Varre-e-Sai, Braz.—died Sept. 26, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), helped popularize the bossa nova (“new trend”), a romantic, sensual style of the 1950s and ’60s that was created from a fusion of the samba, a Brazilian dance music, and cool jazz. He came from a musical family, and his father, who was a troop leader, named his son for Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, the British founder of the Boy Scouts. The boy was a child prodigy and was playing on Rádio Nacìonal by the age of eight. Beginning in his early teens Baden Powell played professionally. In the mid-1950s he met Antônio Carlos Jobim, one of the best known of the bossa nova composers; he encouraged Baden Powell to devote himself to the new music. Perhaps Baden Powell’s most distinctive contribution to the bossa nova style was the incorporation of African influences, derived from his study of African rituals in Brazil. In 1964 he moved to Europe, first to Paris and later to West Germany, and he subsequently recorded with such jazz musicians as Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, and Stéphane Grappelli. Baden Powell returned to Brazil in 1988 and later underwent a religious conversion that led him to stop performing certain of his compositions. “Deve Ser Amor” and “Samba Triste” were his first major hits. More than 50 of his compositions were written in collaboration with the poet Vinícius de Moraes. These included “Samba de Benção,” used on the sound track of Claude Lelouch’s 1966 film Un Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman), “Berimbau,” “Samba em Preludio,” and “Bom Dia, Amigo.”

Tracklist:
01. Baden Powell - Deve Ser Amor
02. Baden Powell - Coro para Metronome
03. Baden Powell - Adagio
04. Baden Powell - Berimbau
05. Baden Powell - Samba em Preludio
06. Baden Powell - Cançao de Inverno
07. Baden Powell - Samba Triste
08. Baden Powell - Cançao de Embalar a Jussara
09. Baden Powell - Preludio
10. Baden Powell - Euridice
11. Baden Powell - Chaiana from Orfeo Negro
12. Baden Powell - A Garota de Ipanema