Baden Powell the Genius ( not the Scout-Founder )
Baden Powell
Baden Powell de Aquino est né le 6 Aout 1937 à Varre-e-Sai.
Il débute la guitare classique à l’age de sept ans. A 14 ans, il obtient le diplôme du conservatoire de
Rio de Janeiro. A quinze ans, il est musicien professionnel, à vingt ans un
compositeur reconnu. Deux personnages l’influencèrent musicalement: son
père Lilo, ainsi que son professeur Jaime Florence. Les poètes
Vinicius de Moraes et Paulo Cesar Pinheiro furent d’autres influences tout
aussi notables. Avec ceux-ci, Baden composa ses plus célèbres chansons
brésiliennes de cette période. Aujourd’hui ces chansons sont devenues des
standards.
L’album “Tristeza on Guitar” fut un succès international de l’année 1966.
En 1967 son concert au “Berliner Jazzstage” déclencha l’enthousiasme en
Allemagne. Depuis ce jour le public allemand l’a toujours admiré et honoré.
En 1970 le “Baden Powell Quartett” débuta une première tournée en Europe
et au Japon qui fut couronnée de succès. Dans nombre de ses albums,
on découvre un improvisateur, un expérimentateur qui sut ajouter des
modulations baroques à sa synthèse personnelle de la samba et du jazz.
Il enregistre durant cette période des albums de grande qualité,
la fusion des cultures afro-brésiliennes et européennes.
Au milieu des années 70, il fut affecté par de sérieux problèmes de santé
et ses apparitions en public et ses enregistrements se sont faits plus rares.
En 1983, il s’installe avec femme et enfants à Baden-Baden ou il vécut retiré quelques
années. Puis des apparitions en solo en Europe lui permettent alors de renouer
avec le succès. De retour au Brésil, il enregistre l’album ”Rio Das Valsas” en 1988, à l’atmosphère musicale si particulière,
où son interprétation gagne en maturité. En outre, il forme musicalement
ses deux fils Philippe-Baden et Louis-Marcel. En Mai 2000, il publie l’un de ses derniers disques “Lembrancas”, qui constitue le testament
d’un grand maitre de la guitare brésilienne. Il est décedé le 26 Septembe 2000 à Rio de Janeiro.
english Bio :
Baden Powell de Aquino nasceu em 6 de Agosto de 1937 em Varre-e-Sai, no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Começou a tocar violão clássico com a idade de sete anos. Com quatorze anos se diplomou em um conservatório no Rio de Janeiro. Aos quinze já era músico profissional e com vinte, um compositor famoso. Foram importantes no seu desenvolvimento musical, o seu pai Lilo, o seu professor Jaime Florence e os poetas Vinicius de Moraes e Paulo Cesar Pinheiro. Banden foi o parceiro nas músicas mais importantes destes poetas neste período. Hoje estas músicas são clássicos !
Em 1966 o seu album “Tristeza on Guitar” foi sucesso internacional. Em 1967 no concerto “Berliner Jazztage” foi entusiasticamente aplaudido na Alemanha. Desde essa época é respeitado e adorado na Alemanha. Em 1970, com o seu “Baden Powell Quartet” iniciou sua primeira turnê pela Europa e Japão, que foi um grande sucesso. Muitos albuns editados mostram um músico experimental e improvisador, que soube unir as modulações barrocas à síntese do samba e do jazz. Neste período gravou álbuns de alta qualidade, fazendo a fusão entre a cultura afro-brasileira e a européia.
Em meado dos anos 70 teve sérios problemas de saúde com raras apresentações ao vivo e gravações. Em 1983 se mudou com esposa e dois filhos para Baden-Baden onde viveu alguns anos em retiro. Suas apresentações solo na Europa se resumiam à velhos sucessos. Em 1988 voltou ao Brasil e gravou o album “Rio das Valsas”, que tem uma grande atmosfera musical e interpretações maduras. Cuidou também da educação musical dos seus filhos Philippe-Baden e Louis-Marcel. Seu último álbum “Lembranças”, foi editado em Maio de 2000 com o legado do grande mestre do violão brasileiro.
Morreu em 26 de Setembro de 2000 no Rio de Janeiro.
Baden Powell de Aquino (Varre-Sai, 6 de Agosto de 1937 – Rio de Janeiro, 26 de setembro de 2000) foi um violonista brasileiro.
Filho de Dona Adelina e do violinista Lino de Aquino, que deu-lhe esse nome por ser fã do criador do Escotismo, general britânico Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell. Baden Powell tinha uma maneira única de tocar violão, incorporando elementos virtuosísticos da técnica clássica e suíngue e harmonia populares. Ele foi considerado por muitos um dos maiores violonistas de todos os tempos. Explorou de maneira radical os limites do instrumento, o que o transformou em uma rara estrela nacional da área com trânsito internacional.
▪ Conheceu Vinicius de Moraes em 1962, formando uma parceria musical, criando músicas como o Samba da Bênção, Samba em Prelúdio, Deixa e Canto de Ossanha.
Teve músicas gravadas por Beth Carvalho (Samba do Perdão, parceria com Paulo César Pinheiro), Elis Regina (Samba do Perdão, Quaquaraquaquá, Aviso aos Navegantes), todas em parceria com Paulo César Pinheiro; Cai Dentro), Elizeth Cardoso (Valsa do amor que não vem, com Vinícius de Moraes).
Baden Powell de Aquino was born in Varre-Sai in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His father, a scouting enthusiast, named him after Robert Baden-Powell. When he was three, his family relocated to a suburb in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The new surroundings proved profoundly influential. His house was a stop for popular musicians during his formative years. He started guitar lessons with Jayme Florence, a famous Choro guitarist in the 1940s. He soon proved a young virtuoso, having won many talent competitions before he was a teenager. At age fifteen, he was already playing professionally, accompanying singers and bands in various styles. As a youngster, he was fascinated by Swing and Jazz, but his main influences were firmly rooted in the Brazilian guitar canon.
In 1955, Powell was playing 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 for bass duties as well as 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.
Powell achieved much wider fame in 1959 by convincing Billy Blanco, an established singer and songwriter, to put lyrics to one of Powell’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 Vinicius de Moraes and began a collaboration that yielded some true classics of 1960s Brazilian music. Although bossa nova was the prevailing sound of the times, the partnership Baden-Vinicius wanted to transcend the then-fashionable sound by syncretizing Afro-Brazilian forms such as Candomblé, Umbanda and Capoeira with Rio de Janeiro’s Samba forms. The most enduring result is a series released as an LP in 1966 under the name “Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius”. During those years, he studied advanced harmony with Moacir Santos, released recordings in the Brazilian labels Elenco and Forma, as well as in the French label Barclay and the German label MPS/Saba (notably, his 1966 Tristeza on Guitar, considered by many to be a high point in his career). In addition, he was the house guitarist for Elenco, and of the celebrated singer Elis Regina’s TV show “O Fino da Bossa”.
In 1968, he partnered with poet Paulo Cesar Pinheiro and produced another series of Afro-Brazilian inspired music released in 1970 as “Os Cantores da Lapinha”.
He visited and toured Europe frequently in the 1960s, relocating permanently to France in 1968. In the 1970s, he released many recordings with different labels in Europe and Brazil. His star dimmed somewhat owing to health problems and people’s changing tastes. He spent the 1980s in semi-retirement in France and Germany. Finally, 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 Evangelical faith, to which he credits overcoming his long addictions to alcohol and tobacco. Nevertheless, his health had greatly deteriorated after many years of abuse, and he fell terminally ill in 2000.
Baden Powell died of pneumonia triggered by diabetes on the 26th of September, 2000, in Rio de Janeiro.
He is the father of pianist Philippe Baden Powell de Aquino and guitarist Louis Marcel Powell de Aquino.
Posted by admin on Dezember 27th, 2009 :: Filed under Allgemein, Brasil
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