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Seemed like he put out a record every week!

That cover image caught my eye. Clifford's looking dapper!

NP: Baden Powell e Paulo César Pinheiro - Os Cantores Da Lapinha (Elenco, 1970) A bit unusual because vocals are the focus of this album, rather than Powell's guitar playing. The vocal ensemble includes with two singers from the Quarteto Em Cy and two from the MPB-4, plus Elizete Cardoso.

LOL!

That quote on the back of the cover is hilarious. "Don Ellis can bridge the generation gap! Oh yes, he can!"

I didn't mean to open a can of worms, but it looks like I have. There would be all sorts of huge, difficult issues to unpack if we were to dive into this topic -- volatile things like racism, slavery, and colonialism. Given our forum's ban on discussions related to politics and religion, I suggest that we drop it. Fair enough?

True dat.

I'd read that he'd converted to evangelical Christianity -- at least in some part to help him deal with his heavy drinking habit. So it's not too surprising that the Candomblé stuff was off-the-table after that. He may have been crazy too, but I think there was some logic to his decision -- assuming he had embraced conservative, "born again" Christianity. That's just part of the deal. Living in the South, and growing up in my family that I did, I get it; it's consistent with the way they think about the world -- even though I don't hold those views myself. Tolstoy repudiated War & Peace and Anna Karenina when got older, also for religious reasons -- although he wasn't embracing a traditional religious perspective like Powell did. It seems nutty, but I suppose it made sense to him at the time. Honestly, sometimes you just got to ignore what artists say and focus on what they've made, their art. Next up? Big surprise! MPS created such striking, memorable covers for Powell's albums. Very much of their time, but fantastic.

Me too. Why try to re-create perfection?!?! It's bound to be a let-down.

Streaming these this morning: Baden Powell Quartet, Vols. 1-3 (Barclay, rec. 1970) with Ernesto Ribeiro Gonçalves (b), Helio Schiavo (dr), Alfredo Bessa (perc), and Janine de Waleyne (vcl)

I've been bitten pretty hard by the Baden Powell bug. I feel a listening bender coming on. Streaming this now: Os Afro Sambas de Baden [Powell] e Vinícius [De Moraes] (Forma BR, 1966) with the Quarteto em Cy And earlier: Baden Powell - S/T (Barclay FR, 1971)

Braves lost today, but still took 2 out of 3 from the Giants.

Still in a Brazilian bag. Now re-listening to this album by the Quarteto Em Cy, a four-sister harmony singing group: Quarteto Em Cy - S/T (Odeon/Elemental, 1972) Among the many musicians backing them are all three members of the Tamba Trio: Luiz Eça, Bebeto, and Hélcio Milito.

Don't know that one. Will seek it out.

Some Sunday afternoon Brazilian jazz: Moacir Santos - Maestro (Blue Note, 1972) with a bunch of West Coast heavies, including Oscar Brashear, Frank Rosolino, Don Menza, Clare Fischer, Joe Pass, and John Heard and Baden Powell - Canto on Guitar (MPS/BASF, 1971) Superb. Intimate, dream-like, and intoxicating.

I'm not. Is it good?

I'll hazard a couple guesses: Being released on MPS probably didn't help... at least in the U.S., where it was issued by PAUSA, a relatively small-time outfit. Also, wasn't this sort of musical style beginning to lose steam by the beginning of the 80s? I think the conservative, "Let's turn the clock back to the mid-60s" thing was already ascendant. So funky music -- unless it was the "original" Horace Silver-type funk -- was becoming passe (in some circles). So, ironically, it was going out of style because it wasn't old enough. EDIT: Noodling on this a bit further. I love the idea that, with passing of time, what was hip or popular (or the opposite) at any given time can be re-visited and re-evaluated without the baggage that may have gone with it at the time of its release. Time can provide a sort of leveling effect; in other words, the music can be recontextualized with the passing of time, with different times yielding different meanings. So music that may have been ignored can be lifted up, and music that was lionized may prove less durable than expected. At the very least, things get shifted around, meaning-wise; so, if the art is good enough -- and so much of jazz is -- it's continually, kaleidoscopically becoming something new and vital. I hope that makes sense. 😉

The recordings by Szell & Serkin may be more intense -- but Jochum & Gilels' relatively slower pace makes these already large-scale concertos sound even more massive, giving them a symphony-like grandeur. Desert-island stuff, for sure.

Yes, I like that painting too. Very mid-century modern.

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Two solo guitar albums by Laurindo Almeida: and