Enéas Costa is a real mystery as best as I can tell. His discography is impressive, having recorded with the likes of Gal Costa, Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, and Caetano Veloso. But I've never been able to find out much else about him; where he is/was from, whether he's still alive, nothing. The only thing I've ever found is one picture which supposedly shows him playing with the great saxophonist J.T. Mereilles, and bassist Luizão Maia, who played with Elis Regina for many years.
But we can certainly hear a lot of him, because his name appears on many an album credit. In addition to the names above, Costa also did considerable work with Maria Bethânia. Here he is playing the standard "Sonho Meu", from Bethânia's album Álibi. This recording also features Gal Costa on vocals, Rosinha de Valença on guitar and cavaquinho, the aforementioned Luizão Maia on bass, and a young Tutty Moreno on percussion.
I've done a traditional note-for-note transcription, but below that is a simplified version, which just shows the comping pattern, which is the real sauce of the phrasing and what we're likely most interested in gleaning from a transcription of this nature. You can then play along with the recording with brushes, a tamborim, whatever you like, really.
Simplified version:
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