Brazilian classical/jazz guitar virtuoso Carlos Barbosa-Lima and John Griggs have collaborated in writing these five extended, original solo compositions. These pieces explore a wide variety of Brazilian jazz rhythms, harmonies, and tone colors. Thoughtfully written in separate standard notation and tablature editions, these pieces would best be played on a nylon-string guitar by the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Includes access to online audio featuring Barbosa-Lima's performance of each solo.

"Ela é Carioca" ("She?s a Carioca") is a bossa nova song composed in 1963 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English lyrics were written by Ray Gilbert. The song is sometimes titled "Ele é Carioca (He?s a Carioca)."

"Carioca" is a Brazilian term for someone from or something related to Rio de Janeiro.

ISBN 9781609743918. The tangos of Brazilian pianist/composer Ernesto Julio de Nazareth combine elements of European dances such as the polka and Latin-American forms including the maxixe. There are unmistakable syncopations of Scott Joplin's ragtime and, of cource, the cosmopolitan choros of his native Rio. These diverse sources of Nazareth melded into a style that is both uniquely personal and quintessentially of his time and place. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Manha de Carnaval is one of the most important Brazilian Jazz/Bossa songs that helped establish the Bossa Nova movement in the late 1950s. The song is also known as "A Day in the Life of a Fool", "Carnival", "Black Orpheus". The song has been performed by artists as Paco de Lucía, Chet Atkins, Placido Domingo, Luís Miguel and many more,

For Guitar fingerstyle solo (Classical or acoustic guitar).
With Guitar tablature. With finger position suggestions.
Early intermediate. 1:55'min.
Pages: Three (3) pages.