Results for "Hermeto Pascoal"

Musician

Hermeto Pascoal

Born: June 22, 1936

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.

Musician

Ithamara Koorax

Born: April 28, 1965

Ithamara Koorax (born April 28, 1965) is a Brazilian jazz and pop singer. For several years, she was voted one of the best jazz singers of the world by DownBeat Readers Polls. In 2008 and 2009, Koorax placed third on the "Female Vocalist" category on the 73rd DownBeat Readers Polls, with Diana Krall on the first place and Cassandra Wilson on second, (DownBeat's December 2008 issue, page 44), as well as on the 74th Annual Readers Poll (December 2009 issue, page 42).

Back in 2002, Koorax had already placed fourth in the 67th Annual DownBeat Readers Poll (December 2002 issue, page 56).

Album

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.

Video

The Music of Hermeto Pascoal by the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra

Featuring the music of Hermeto Pascoal
Duration: 22:44
November 16, 2025

Yes, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal was a jazz legend. But his talent for even-handedly incorporating jazz, Brazilian folk music and avant-garde classical music meant that he was creating a style all his own. His instrumental abilities spanned virtuosic acoustic and electric piano, flute and wood flute, soprano sax, accordion and melodion, as well as playing random, “found” objects. This video highlights the Julliard Jazz Orchestra delivering tight arrangements of Pascoal’s "Choro Árabe," "Bebê" and "Jegue." The first of these pieces fuses the multi-layered Brazilian rhythms of Choro with horn punctations suggested by world music scales. Simply put, it takes you “there.” Hermeto Pascoal passed away on September 13, 2025.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Hermeto Pascoal: Intocável

by Katchie Cartwright
September 28, 2025

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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Hermeto Pascoal: the Sound of Everything

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 25, 2025

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 ...

Article: Big Band in the Sky

Remembering Hermeto Pascoal: The Sorcerer's Spell

by Ian Patterson
September 16, 2025

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 ...

Article: Play This!

Hermeto Pascoal: Gaio da Roseira

by Ian Patterson
September 16, 2025

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 ...

Article: Liner Notes

Jovino Santos Neto Quarteto: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995

by Bruce Phares
August 30, 2025

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 ...

Article: Album Review

ZurHub: Countryside Motorways

by Edward Blanco
August 19, 2025

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 ...