Album Review:
Solo
- Release Date: 1994
- Genre: Latin
- Label: Chesky Jazz
- Total Time: 56:29
- Artist: Badi Assad
- Rating:
- Styles: Brazilian Jazz, Bossa Nova
- Similar Albums: Putumayo Presents: Brasileiro,
Brazilian Horizons ,Grandes Exitos a La Manera de Alejandro Fernandez , Brasilian Christmas, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Friends, Nueva Vision,Verve Jazz Masters 13 , Timbalada [Mulate Do Bunde], Batacoto [Trikola], Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim,Samba Bossa , Bossa Nova Brasil, Black Orpheus [Fontana/Verve]
Review
This young, dazzlingly virtuosic Brazilian guitarist performs entirely solo on this album, even though sometimes she seems to be doing the work of three or more musicians simultaneously. Borrowing sonic ideas from the innovative Brazilian group Uakti, she simulates various percussion instruments and sings and scats in clear, vibrant Portuguese while playing rapid-fire, technically impeccable acoustic guitar. She also chooses merely to play guitar alone on several tracks in an often rhythmically complex or delicate manner. The material she plays ranges all over her nation's spectrum from the music of her brother Sergio (half of the famous Assad classical guitar duo), Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Egberto Gismonti and non-Brazilian Ralph Towner. The combination of classical technique, a Brazilian jazz sensibility and the unique touches of percussion and voice are exquisitely captured by Chesky's purist audiophile equipment. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Num Pagode Em Planaltina | |
Badi Assad | (4:39) | |
| Prelúdio E Toccatina | |
Sergio Assad | Badi Assad | (2:59) |
| A Bela E a Fera | |
Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque de Hollanda | Badi Assad | (4:05) |
| Valseana | |
Sergio Assad | Badi Assad | (2:32) |
| Tamoimoê | |
Marcos Ferreira | Badi Assad | (4:40) |
| When the Fire Burns Low | |
Ralph Towner | Badi Assad | (3:45) |
| Fuoco (Libra Sonatine) | |
Roland Dyens | Badi Assad | (3:35) |
| Joana Francesa | |
Chico Buarque | Badi Assad | (4:18) |
| Vrap | |
Marcos Ferreira | Badi Assad | (4:19) |
| Palhaco | |
Egberto Gismonti | Badi Assad | (2:59) |
| Rua Harmonia | |
Ulisses Rocha, Silvano Michelino | Badi Assad | (5:14) |
| Estudo #1/Assum Preto | Badi Assad | (5:22) | ||
| Homenagem a Radamés Gnattalli | |
Badi Assad | (4:15) | |
| Drume Negrita | |
Eliseo Grenet | Badi Assad | (3:47) |
