This show has a link of sorts - showcasing some of the key guitarists to have influenced brazilian popular music in the last 40 years or so! Baden Powell a child prodigy named after the british founder of scouts was one of our most extraordinary guitar maestros - his album of seminal
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afro sambas with vinicius de moraes is legendary - here he is with the much covered Canto de Ossanha. Durval Ferreira covers the Streisand standard People, Rosinha de Valenca covers Sergio Mendes' classic Zanzibar. Luis Vagner emerged from the southern brazilian 60s rock scene to massively influence samba soul in the 70s with his amazing guitar groove (even Jorge Ben wrote a dedication to him called Luiz Vagner Guitarreiro!). Since the late 40s Luiz Bonfa's amazing technique wowed audiences all over the world. Here's a rare cut with him singing too.
Os Mutantes were amongst the first to bring the evils of electric guitars into the snobbish world of bossa nova - thanks god they did! Os Cinco Pados show the huge influence on samba jazz of the blue note artists with a cover of a Kenny Burrell blues. Maestro Waltel Branco was first and foremost a classical guitarist but here funks up a 1920s brasilian standard. Agustin Peyrera Lucena may be argentinean but he plays almost exclusively brasilian music so no apologies for his inclusion! Likewise Brazilian -born Jayme Marques lived and worked in Spain where he recorded some heavy club albums. Another Argentine ex-pat Don Beto shows his latin rock chops with Chico Batera on Joao Bosco's heavy Tiro de Misericordia, and finally where we would be without the genius of Lanny Gordin? Here providing his unique fuzz sound to Gal's version of Caetano's Lost in the Paradise... Brazil Guitars!
1. Baden Powell & VInicius de Moraes - Canto de Ossanha
2. As Quentes do Patropi (Durval Ferreira) - People
3. Rosinha de Valenca - Zanzibar
4. Luis Vagner - Tesourao
5. Luiz Bonfa - Chorou Chorou
6. Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba
7. Os Cinco Pados - Chantilli Con Carne
8. Heraldo e Seu Conjunto - Batida Diferente
9. Waltel Branco - Luar Sertao
10. Agustin Peyrera Lucena - La Rana (The Frog)
11. Jayme Marques - Berimbau
12. Chico Batera & Don Beto - Tiro de Misercordia
13. Gal Costa - Lost in the Paradise
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