The guitarist of the day is Baden Powell. Baden Powell, along with João Gilberto are perhaps the most beloved Brazilian guitarists of all time. In 1962, Powell and Vinicius de Moraes began a collaboration that yielded some classics of 1960s Brazilian music. They sought to transcend the then internationally fashionable bossa nova sound by mixing Afro-Brazilian elements with bossa nova, samba, and jazz. The best known results are the Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius.
Guitar pieces such as Berimbau, Xangô, Simplesmente, Braziliense, Horizon, Consolação, Samba, Casa Velha, Lotus, Imagem, and Canto de Ossanha are standards. His playing meets the highest technical and aesthetic standards: his unique melodic solo guitar playing and control of Brazilian rhythms and ways of articulating them are a high water mark for Luso- and Latin American nylon-string guitarists. And that Brazilian right hand that I've heard called a "little miracle."
This version of A.C. Jobim's "One Note Samba" ain't your daddy's martini-swigging, best friend's wife-shagging One Note Samba:
Baden Powell 1967 Berlin Guitar Festival
Check out these amazing free transcriptions in notation and tab:
http://www.brazil-on-guitar.de/tabs.html
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The year before his death. 1999.
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