Baden Powell: Poema On Guitar [MPS]

Why you'll love it

Back on 180g vinyl from MPS, the label that recorded it. Baden Powell cut it in Villingen in 1967, after the Berlin Jazz Days, with Eberhard Weber on bass, and it mixes solo guitar pieces with trio and quartet tracks.

This edition

• MPS reissue
• 180g vinyl
• Solo, trio and quartet recordings from the 1967 session

About the album

Baden Powell (named, by a Scouting-mad father, after the founder of the Scouts) was the guitarist who gave bossa nova and samba their swing and their classical polish, and a year earlier he had made Os Afro-sambas with Vinicius de Moraes. Fresh off the Berlin Jazz Days in 1967, he went to the MPS studio in Villingen with producer Joachim E. Berendt, bassist Eberhard Weber, flautist Sidney Smith and drummer Charly Antolini.

The result moves from the lightness of "Feitinha Pro Poeta" and "Dindi" to the hush of "Consolação" and "Samba Triste", with a nod to Black Orpheus on "Euridice" and a nimble "All the Things You Are" for the jazz crowd. He dedicated the album to Vinicius, and that warmth runs through it. It also proves you can learn a great deal about saudade in the Black Forest, which is not a sentence we expected to write today.

Only he who has read Vinicius knows the meaning of saudade.
Baden Powell

Tracklist

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Out July 17, 2026 on MPS (cat# 0221346MSW), a reissue of the 1967 album.