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Performer: Baden Powell
Producer: Roberto Menescal (Compilation)
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Includes liner notes translated and adapted by Gerald Seligman. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Baden Powell (guitar). Translator: Gerald Seligman . Even if Baden Powell had never recorded a single note, he'd be renowned as the composer (along with esteemed collaborator Vinicius De Moreas) of numerous bossa nova classics. Fortunately for fans of Brazilian music, Powell did indeed make a simultaneous career of committing his guitar instrumentals to tape. This compilation captures Powell's music in all its glory and deceptive simplicity. Whether Powell is playing solo (the live "Euridice"), in a duet with flute ("Carinhoso"), or accompanied by a jazzy rhythm section ("Apelo"), it's his cascading guitar runs that dominate, with a symbiosis of melody, harmony, and rhythm that almost seems like the softer side of Ornette Coleman's "harmolodic" theories. More influenced by classical and flamenco traditions than his peer Joao Gilberto, Powell successfully combines bossa nova's lilting rhythm with a sweeping, South American romanticism throughout this definitive anthology.

Baden Powell was a musical prodigy who grew up to become a major figure in Brazilian popular music (MPB) during the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the world's greatest guitarists. As a composer and interpreter of samba and bossa nova, Powell brought both jazz flair and classical precision to the Brazilian tradition without losing its roots. Powell's phenomenal playing has influenced many artists both in and outside of Brazil.

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