Saturday, December 30, 2006

Geraldo Vespar - Eu e o Violao (1968)

Geraldo Vespar, Maestro, arranger, composer, and guitarist is truly a genius. A musician that influenced several generations through years. As guitarrist, an innovator, positioned at the same level as Baden Powell and others. I'm making something different with this post making available a link to the song Diz que Fui por Ai (Ze Ketti / Hortencio Rocha) with Nara Leao and Geraldo Vespar on guitar from the LP Nara (1964), for Elenco.

Geraldo Vespar plays with a single percussion accompaniment, starting a new style of playing. Make a try; even if you are not a musician, you will be pleased with Vespar guitar backing Nara.

This is Diz que Fui por Ai:

This is Geraldo Vespar - Eu e o Violao (1968), for Parlophone, another release provided by Caetano Rodrigues that I was saving for the right time, but several Loronix friends were requesting this LP, which is not easy to find, and I could not wait longer. Such beautiful that is self-explanatory, nothing can go wrong with Eu e o Violao. Tracks include:

01 - Sá Marina (Antônio Adolfo / Tibério Gaspar)
02 - Eu e a Brisa (Johnny Alf)
03 - Desencontro (Chico Buarque)
04 - Feitiço da Vila (Noel Rosa / Vadico)
05 - Viola Enluarada (Marcos Valle / Paulo Sergio Valle)
06 - Por Que (Geraldo Vespar / Mário Telles) -- Bourrê (Geraldo Vandré)
07 - Corcovado (Tom Jobim)
08 - Até Segunda Feira (Chico Buarque)
09 - No Brilho da Faca (Wagner Tiso / Novelli / Paulo Sergio Valle)
10 - Mancada (Gilberto Gil)
11 - Olê Olá (Chico Buarque)
12 - Lapinha (Baden Powell / Paulo César Pinheiro)


8 comments:

Anonymous said...

it appears zecalouro that all posts have now been blocked !!! this is most sad :-( and i hope in some way you continue this essential archive! have a good new year!

zecalouro said...

Hello,

It was just a minor cosmetic issue that should be fixed along the day.

Do not worry about this.

Thanks.

Cheers, zecalouro

Anonymous said...

Seems to be fixed. Downloading it now.

Have a good day Zeca.

Anonymous said...

Another winner from Zeca. How does he do it?

Comparisons might be made to Baden but Geraldo seems to be a lot freer (and even prettier if I can take the liberty of using that description)than Baden. Certainly less complicated to listen to. This one is great to settle down with a cocktail or two.

zecalouro said...

Jazzman,

Don't miss the extra track with Nara Leao, it's wonderful to hear how Geraldo's guitar blends so fine with everything, masterpiece.

zecalouro

Anonymous said...

General Zeca:

Concerning the Nara Leao Lp on Elenco: is the entire Lp her and Geraldo like the one track you posted? I like this track a lot.

Private Carter

zecalouro said...

Admiral Carter,

Geraldo Vespar plays guitar on Diz que Fui por Ai, track 02.

Baden Powell plays guitar on Vou por Ai, track 08.

What a great contest! Don't you think?

The record is all great with arrangements of Lindolfo Gaya in all tracks, except the last one, Nana by Moacir Santos.

Cheers,

zeca, your disciple

Anonymous said...

I just found this site and have not complete looked over it. In the early 1970's I learned a song named 'Sa Marina' played by Geraldo Vespar. The rest of the album is just as good by the great guitarist. Is there anyway I can find this album again. I don't know the name of it but it contained that song. Please help if you can. Thanks, George Ates