Results for "Hermeto Pascoal"

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.

Ben Tweedt Presents: A Tribute to Hermeto Pascoal

by Daniel Peck
October 16, 2026

Cincinnati-based pianist Ben Tweedt and Cleveland-based flutist Bryan Kennard spoke on several occasions over the last couple years about their mutual admiration for Hermeto Pascoal's music. In the middle of planning this show, Hermeto passed in September 2025 at the age of 89. While the world lost one of its bright, creative sparks, Hermeto ...

September Songs

by Katchie Cartwright
September 27, 2026

September songs mark the end of a long summer season and the beginning of one that promises to be shorter and cooler. Familiar compositions by the likes of Weill, Lins and Strayhorn stand with newer musings, performed by the composers and others. That's the long and short of it here in San Antonio, Texas, where the ...

Neves e Silva: Ladeiras de Santa Teresa

by Katchie Cartwright
July 6, 2026

Ladeiras de Santa Teresa opens with a big polymetric beat and powerful brass and percussion up front. You might flash on the Afro-Bahian sound of Letieres Leite's Orkestra Rumpilezz. The groove shifts suddenly, releasing into a jazz feel; Brazilian jazz that is, not swing or bebop, though Charlie Parker's “Star Eyes" with intro serves as a ...

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Miles Davis At 100: A Global Perspective

by Ian Patterson
May 26, 2026

Miles Davis' centenary has arrived. The second century begins. What changes jazz has undergone in the 100 years since Miles Dewey Davis was born in Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926! Davis was all about change, evolution, growth, and reinvention.  A driving force behind many of the changes in direction jazz took during his ...

Take Five with Pianist Jon Gold

by AAJ Staff
May 18, 2026

Meet Jon Gold Jon's story begins in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jon's brother (Jay Gold) was an avid music fan who introduced Jon, as a child, to Delta blues, then r&b, and later jazz. Jon's brother Jay was a producer for Mushroom Records, the label for the pop group Heart. Jon started playing slide blues ...

Triple Blind: Cold Walk

by Rob Garratt
April 20, 2026

A lot of beautiful, ugly, and--more than anything--middling music was made during the pandemic. In the first camp we might lump Triple Blind, whose remotely recorded, self-titled debut EP was defined by the isolation of its players. So for its follow-up, the quartet appear at pains to underline the shared space and interpersonal interaction that birthed ...

Melissa Aldana Quartet At The Philharmonie

by Matty Bannond
March 31, 2026

Melissa Aldana, Pablo Held, Pablo Menares, Kush Abadey The Philharmonie Cologne, Germany March 21, 2026 In northwest Germany, the natural order slides out of whack in early Spring. Lazer-blue skies blacken in the flicker of an eyelid. Afternoon strolling requires sunglasses and waterproof footwear. Mosquito bites burn as you scratch frost ...

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...