{"id":6130,"date":"2015-09-01T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2021-04-20T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:41:19","slug":"laurindo-almeida-the-master-of-the-brazilian-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=6130","title":{"rendered":"Laurindo Almeida &#8211; The Master of the Brazilian Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Laurindo Almeida<\/strong> was a Brazilian guitarist who was active in the USA after 1940. He worked in Hollywood as a studio musician and has played the guitar part in many movies. For his record <strong>Girl von Ipanema<\/strong> he won a Grammy in 1964. Laurindo Almeida is also seen as the father of the Bossa-Nova. He played together with the Modern Jazz Quartet, but he has also arranged many classical works for the guitar.<\/p>\n<p>I had several books with sheet music by Laurindo Almeida for years, and I have recently worked on some of the pieces. Almeida arranged some famous Jazz Standards for the classical guitar, like Blue Moon,Over the Rainbow, Mamselle, My Funny Valentine &#8211; some great arrangements for guitar.<\/p>\n<p>This is an English Air by Almeida in my version. I have found other videos of this tune which obviously play it from a different score which contains some errors. I think that my version must be the original version of this piece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"English Air (Laurindo Almeida) - Guitar Solo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ycYaOnmjlc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have recently compiled youtube videos with recordings by Laurindo Almeida and Works composed or arranged by Almeida and played by other guitarist in two large playlists.<\/p>\n<h4>Playlist 1 &#8211; Original Recordings by Laurindo Almeida<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laurindo Almeida - Brazilian Guitar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo8qJfEE2SYjzxkt37me_QIV\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Playlist 2 &#8211; Works by Laurindo Almeida played by other Guitarists<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laurinda Almeida - Guitar Solos\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo-QZb17UPfkgNfbDHgfxTZK\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Additional Information<\/h4>\n<p>You can download a one hour podcast on the website of <a href=\"http:\/\/vcfz.blogspot.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fabio Zanon<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vcfz.blogspot.de\/2006\/05\/21-laurindo-almeida.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurindo Almeida<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More Links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:laurindo-almeida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link Collection Laurindo Almeida<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurindo_Almeida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia \u00fcber Laurindo Almeida<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/255947-Laurindo-Almeida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discography of Laurindo Almeido at discogs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurindoalmeida.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website for Laurindo Almeida<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find several editions of Almeidas works for the guitar. This is a large compilation of solo works which might be a good edition to start with (Amazon partnerlink):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 300px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=mandoisland00-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0786661836&amp;asins=0786661836&amp;linkId=IWTVLCIMZETUIGJ2&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian guitarist who was active in the USA after 1940. 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