Baden Powell (guitarist)
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Birth name | Baden Powell de Aquino |
Born | Varre-Sai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | August 6, 1937
Died | September 26, 2000 Rio de Janeiro | (aged 63)
Genres | Brazilian jazz, bossa nova |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1950s–1990s |
Baden Powell de Aquino (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈbadẽ ˈpawew]; 6 August 1937 – 26 September 2000), known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian guitarist.[1] He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing. He performed in many styles, including bossa nova, samba, Brazilian jazz, Latin jazz and MPB. He performed on stage during most of his lifetime. Powell composed many pieces for guitar, such as Abração em Madrid, Braziliense, Canto de Ossanha, Casa Velha, Consolação, Horizon, Imagem, Lotus, Samba, Samba Triste, Simplesmente, Tristeza e Solidão, and Samba da Benção. He released Os Afro-sambas, a watershed album in MPB, with Vinicius de Moraes in 1966.[2]
Biography
Baden Powell de Aquino was born in
canon.In 1955, Powell played with the Steve Bernard Orquestra at the Boite Plaza, a nightclub within the Plaza Hotel in Rio, where his skill got the attention of the jazz trio playing across the lobby at the Plaza Bar. When Ed Lincoln needed to form a new trio, he asked Powell to join on guitar to become the Hotel Plaza Trio. Powell brought in Luiz Marinho on bass and a fourth member of the "trio": Claudette Soares on vocals. Powell, Lincoln, and their young musician friends took part in after-hours jam sessions, gaining notice in the growing Brazilian jazz scene.[3]
Powell achieved wider fame in 1959 by convincing Billy Blanco, an established singer and songwriter, to put lyrics to one of Baden's compositions. The result was called "Samba Triste" and quickly became very successful. It has been covered by many artists, including Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd in their seminal LP Jazz Samba.
In 1962, Powell met the poet-diplomat
Powell studied advanced harmony with
In 1968, Powell joined with poet Paulo César Pinheiro and produced another series of Afro-Brazilian-inspired music, released in 1970 as Os Cantores da Lapinha.
Powell visited and toured Europe frequently in the 1960s, relocating permanently to France in 1968.
In the 1970s, he released recordings with labels in Europe and Brazil. In 1981, during four weeks, he was on the stage of Palais des glaces in Paris as guitarist and singer.[4] However, he had health problems and spent the 1980s in semi-retirement in France and Germany. In the 1990s he and his family moved back to Brazil, where he continued to record and perform. Public recognition of his work came around that time in Brazil.
By the end of the 1990s he converted to
He is the father of pianist Philippe Baden Powell de Aquino and guitarist Louis Marcel Powell de Aquino.
Playing style
Baden Powell decided at age 19 to stop playing the
An analysis of his repertoire reveals a wide range of interests. It spanned all the idioms of Brazilian popular music of the 20th century:
This upbringing is reflected in his playing style, which shows a fusion of jazz harmonies and
His influences were his first teacher "Meira" (Jayme Florence, 1909–1982), Dilermando Reis (1916–1977), and Garoto (Anibal Augusto Sardinha, 1915–1955). He also commented about being influenced by the work of Les Paul (1915–2009), Django Reinhardt (1910–1953), and Jacques Loussier (1934–2019).
Discography
Baden Powell first appeared as accompanist on a few big band and samba recordings from the 1950s. He recorded his first solo album in 1959, but it was released in 1961. His first and second albums contain jazz standards, Brazilian popular music of the time, and original compositions. In 1962, he recorded with flautist
Albums
Title | Release | Label | Notes |
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Apresentando Baden Powell e Seu Violão | 1961 | Philips (Br) | with Carlos Monteiro de Souza and his orchestra. Produced by Baden Powell |
Um Violão na Madrugada | 1961 | Philips | with Carlos Monteiro de Souza and his orchestra. Produced by Armando Pittigliani |
Baden Powell Swings with Jimmy Pratt | 1963 | Elenco | with band directed by Jimmy Pratt on drums. Produced by Aloysio de Oliveira
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À Vontade | 1963 | Elenco (Br) |
with flute, drums and percussion. Produced by Oliveira |
Le Monde Musical de Baden Powell, also released as Fresh Winds | 1964 | Barclay (F), United Artists (US) |
with trio and orchestra dir. by Paul Mauriat, recorded in Paris. Produced by Jacques Lubin |
Billy Nencioli + Baden Powell | 1965 | Barclay/PolyGram | French singer Nencioli with band and strings feat. Powell. Music by Powell |
Os Afro Sambas de Baden e Vinicius |
1966 | Forma (Br) | with Vinícius de Moraes, Quarteto em Cy , horns and percussion. Produced by Roberto Quartin and Wadi Gebara Netto
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Tempo Feliz | 1966 | Forma/Polygram | with trio feat. Mauricio Einhorn on harmonica. Produced by Quartin and Gebara Netto |
Ao Vivo no Teatro Santa Rosa | 1966 | Elenco | live, with trio feat. Oscar Castro-Neves on piano. Produced by Oliveira |
Tristeza on Guitar | 1966 | MPS/Saba | solo and with trio. Powell uses guitar overdubs. Produced by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Gebara Netto |
O Som de Baden Powell | 1968 | Elenco | with Copinha on flute and rhythm section. Produced by Berendt & Gebara Netto |
Os Originais do Samba - Show / Recital | 1968 | Philips | live, with trio, singer Márcia and Originais do Samba |
Poema on Guitar | 1968 | MPS/Saba | quartet with Eberhard Weber, Charly Antolini and flutist Sidney Smith. Produced by Berendt |
27 Horas de Estúdio, also re-rel. as Aquarelles du Bresil | 1969 | Elenco | solo, with trio and string section. Produced by João Mello |
Le Monde Musical de Baden Powell, Vol. 2 | 1969 | Barclay | arranged and conducted by trumpeter Ivan Jullien. Musical direction and production by Lubin |
Os Cantores da Lapinha (As Musicas de Baden Powell e Paulo Cesar Pinheiro) | 1970 | Elenco | |
Baden Powell Quartet, Vols. 1-3 | 1970 | Barclay | compilation, 3-LP boxed set |
Live in Japan, also re-rel. as Face au Public and Gravado ao vivo em Paris | 1971 | Barclay | live, with trio |
Canto on Guitar | 1971 | MPS/Saba | with trio |
Estudos | 1971 | Elenco, MPS/BASF | |
Solitude on Guitar | 1971 | CBS (G) | |
É de Lei | 1972 | Philips | |
Images on Guitar | 1973 | MPS/BASF, Canyon (Jp) | live |
L'Âme de Baden Powell | 1973 | Festival (F), Imagem (Br) | with trio and singer Janine de Waleyne |
La Grande Réunion | 1974 | Festival | with Stéphane Grappelli |
Grandezza on Guitar | 1974 | CBS (Nl) | with Herb Geller and Eberhard Weber |
Estudos | 1974 | MPS/Saba | |
Apaixonado | 1975 | MPS/Saba | |
Baden Powell + Cordes - Mélancolie | 1975 | Festival | with Janine de Waleyne and string section |
Baden Powell canta Vinicius de Moraes e Paolo Cesar Pinheiro | 1977 | Festival | |
Baden Powell | 1978 | Musidisc (F) | compilation, 4-LP set, with trio and Janine de Waleyne |
Nosso Baden, also re-rel. asSimplesmente | 1980 | Atlantic/WEA (Br) | with percussion group Originais do Samba |
De Baden para Vinicius | 1981 | WEA | live |
Felicidades, also re-rel. as Live in Hamburg and Felicidade | 1983 | Pläne (G), Iris/Kardum (F) | live |
Violão em Brasileira re-rel. as Rio das Valsas and Seresta Brasileira | 1988 | Idéia Livre (Br), Caju (Br/Jp), JSL (F), Milestone (US) et al. | |
At the Rio Jazz Club | 1990 | Caju | live |
Os Afro Sambas | 1990 | Banco BMC (Br) | re-recording of the 1966 album, again with Quarteto em Cy, lead vocals by Powell |
The Frankfurt Opera Concert 1975 | 1992 | Tropical Music (G/Jp) | live, with trio |
Three Originals | 1993 | MPS/Polygram | compilation |
Live in Rio | 1994 | Kuarup (Br) | live, trio with his sons |
Décembre 94 de Rio à Paris | 1995 | Frémeaux & Associés (F) | |
Live in Montreux, 22 Juillet 1995 | 1996 | Frémeaux & Associés | live |
Baden Live à Bruxelles | 1999 | Lua (Br), Sunnyside (US) | live |
Lembranças | 2000 | Trama (Br) | solo with occ. perc and flute |
Baden Powell de Aquino | 2001 | Iris | compilation, 2-CDs plus CD-ROM |
O Universo Musical de Baden Powell | 2002 | Universal, Sunnyside | compilation, 2-CD set with recordings from 1964-1977 |
Samba in Prelúdio - Quand tu t'en vas | 2002 | Frémeaux & Associés | with Benjamin Legrand and Philippe Baden Powell |
Frémeaux and Associates Recordings 1994-1996 | 2003 | Frémeaux & Associés | compilation |
Baden Powell | 2003 | Universal | compilation, 13-CD box set with recordings from 1961-1972 |
With Herbie Mann
- Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann (Atlantic, 1962)
- Latin Fever (Atlantic, 1964)
With Miltinho com o Sexteto Sideral
- Um Novo Astro (Sideral, 1960)
References
- ISBN 1-56639-545-3.
- ^ Internet (amdb.com.br), AMDB (2009-12-18). "Nº 9 - Canto de Ossanha". Rolling Stone (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ Whatmusic.com. Ed Lincoln: The whatmusic.com interview...
- ^ « Variétés : Baden a surpassé Powell », Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Le Quotidien de Paris, 3 June 1981.
Bibliography
- ISBN 8839713484
- ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6