Monday 5 January 2009

Baden Powell - 27 Horas de Estudio (1969)

Baden Powell Quartet - 27 Horas de Estudio (1969)



01.Lotus
02.Iemanja
03.All the things you are
04.Um abraco no codo
05.Violao
06.O cego aderaldo (Nordeste)
07.A Lenda do Abaete
08.Alo, Ernesto
(Valsa numero um) (Valse No.1)
09. Viagem
10. Double.




Baden Powell Quartet

Baden Powell (git, vcl)
Ernesto Ribeiro-Goncalves (b)
Helio Schiavo (dr)
Alfredo Bessa (perc).

2 comments:

  1. 27 Horas de Estudio

    Year of performance: 1968
    Year of LP release: 1969
    Year of CD release: 25 June 2003 (Brazil)
    Studio or Live: Studio
    Guitar Model: Author 3 by luthier Reinaldo DiGiorgio
    Also published as: Acuarelas de Brasil (LP, 1970)
    O Mestre do Violao Brasileiro (CD-Box, 2003)
    Description: One of his finest sixties recordings.
    Style: Jazzy arrangements, solo pieces, two tracks with strings.
    Comments:

    BrazilOnGuitar says: We think that 27 Horas de Estudio was recorded at the end of 1968 because BP played a very similar arrangement of Iemanja on Le Monde Musical 2. We don't know of any other record with this arrangement.

    Lotus, swinging in the style of Django and Jacques Loussier, opens this ambitious record. It is one of the most beautiful compositions on 27 Horas and sounds like an hommage to these musicians, but is in fact dedicated to his fast car, a Lotus. The string arrangement of All the things you are has not the lightness of the 1967 version and rather resembles the version from 1959. Three solo pieces form the center of this record, the Spanish Violao, the Moorish O cego aderaldo and the Brazilian A lenda do Abaete, showing that the thirty years old Baden belonged to the master guitarists of that time.

    With compositions like Um abraco no codo or Alo, Ernesto he would deal with on later recordings. In 1974 Alo, Ernesto would become Valsa No.1 and be played in studio and on stage. The reflective Viagem and the Double by Bach close the record.

    27 Horas de Estudio was for a long time only available as an LP and (without the WWW) very hard to find outside of Brazil. The long awaited CD-reissue (2003) was carefully remastered and shows the original Elenco cover.

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