MARCOS AMORIM
Genres: World Fusion, Latin Jazz • Brazil

Brazilian guitarist, arranger and songwriter, born 2 September 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. from discogs Deeply influenced stylistically by Baden Powell, Pat Metheny, and Charlie Byrd, Amorim is one of the most elegant and graceful guitarists to come from Rio in a long time. He is a master of counterpoint and tonal invention. His fluidity, like Powell's, runs across the plectrum/chord-voicing boundary and into the space where both occur simultaneously. Like Metheny, he looks for the space in melody where it opens up to a euphoric edge and consciously reaches for the seam, and like Byrd, his sense of rhythmic dynamic is uncanny as even as a soloist he is an ensemble player. from allmusic