Home » Search Center » Results: Hermeto Pascoal
Results for "Hermeto Pascoal"
Results for pages tagged "Hermeto Pascoal"...
Hermeto Pascoal
Born:
Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer whotranscends category. Hermeto often uses unconventionalinstruments such as teapots, children's toys, found objects,and—sometimes, without harming them—live animals. Heuses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in hisMúsica da Lagoa, where the musicians burblewater and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon. He is anenergetic and virtuosic soloist who can play proficiently onalmost any instrument: keyboards, button accordion,saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass instruments,and various folkloric instruments. A Brazilian televisionbroadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point bysinging into a cup with his mouth partially submerged inwater.
Amazonas
By Cal Tjader
Label: Craft Recordings Jazz Dispensary
Released: 2025
Track listing: Amazonas; Xiba(l)ba; Mindoro; Flying; Corine; Noa Noa; Tamenco no Samba; Cahuenga.
Hermeto Pascoal: Intocável
by Katchie Cartwright
On this edition of Caminhos do Jazz, we celebrate the life and work of the great Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal (June 22, 1936-September 13, 2025), o Bruxo, the wizard of universal music; o Campeão, who Miles Davis named as “one of the most important musicians on the planet." The show presents just a few ...
Hermeto Pascoal: the Sound of Everything
by Ludovico Granvassu
From his early accordion days and forró roots to his global influence, Hermeto Pascoal lived in total communion with sound, inspiring generations worldwide. More than a multi-instrumentalist, he was a true “multi-thing-ist," turning pianos, flutes, and drums into magic--but also rubber ducks, teapots, rivers, and stalactites. Perhaps shaped by his vision impairment, he treated every style ...
Remembering Hermeto Pascoal: The Sorcerer's Spell
by Ian Patterson
Hermeto Pascoal, the one-of-a-kind Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and composer, has gone to the great gig in the sky. Known affectionately as Bruxo (Sorcerer), Pascoal passed away on September 13, 2025. He was 89. Few musicians have traversed as many styles of Brazilian music as Pascoal. His first commercial recording, in 1956, was with Clóvis Pereira--the ...
Hermeto Pascoal: Gaio da Roseira
by Ian Patterson
Hermeto Pascoal (June 22, 1936--September 13, 2025), the internationally renowned Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and composer, spent sixty years seamlessly fusing Brazilian music with jazz. From the album A música livre de Hermeto Pascoal (Sinter, 1973) the 14-minute track “Gaio da Roseira" captures the vocal lyricism, percussive colors, dancing rhythms, melodic lilt and avant-garde eclecticism that were some ...
Jovino Santos Neto Quarteto: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995
by Bruce Phares
Sit down. Put on the best earphones you've got. A seatbelt wouldn't hurt, either. Get ready to be blown away. From the opening salvo of Jovino Santos Neto's dazzling composition “Metamorph," you're about to be taken on a musical journey of intense elation, abandon, and passion, engaging and urgent in all aspects, through the many twists ...
ZurHub: Countryside Motorways
by Edward Blanco
Israeli flautist Mattan Klein and fellow Jerusalem native guitarist Ezequiel Hezi Jait, based in both Tel Aviv and New York, present a stunning musical portrait on Countryside Motorways, blending the rhythms of Brazil with Israeli folk and classical music while drawing influence from legendary composers such as Hermeto Pascoal and the incomparable Chick Corea. The co-leaders ...
Cal Tjader: Amazonas
by Richard J Salvucci
Multi-instrumentalist Cal Tjader has been gone for over forty years. Had he lived, he would be in his nineties today. The West Coast scene he entered, first as a drummer, then as a vibraphonist, was a world of clubs, acoustic bands, and enthusiastic promoters who pushed their favorite artists' careers. For Tjader, it was San Francisco, ...
Opa and The Blackbyrds: Coveted 1970s Jazz-Funk
by Mark Sullivan
Opa released only two albums before disbanding in the early 1980s. While neither of their albums found commercial success during their initial releases (despite the high-profile personalities involved), both titles gained underground followings over the following decades. The Blackbyrds' City Life celebrates its golden anniversary. “Happy Music," the dancefloor-ready title track and the group's heavily sampled ...
