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  BBC - Gloucestershire Festivals - Hemeto Pascoal at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Hermeto was born in 1936, in a small Brazilian town in the Northwest of the country.
Hermeto is undoubtedly a unique talent and his music on the night carried a strong Latin jazz flavour.
Hermeto was ably supported by a big band of talented musicians and their collective melody was excellent.
www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/festivals/2004/05/hermeto_pascoal.shtml   (682 words)

  
 NPS Output artiestenprofiel Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal is de oervader van de Braziliaanse experimentele muziek.
Hermeto geldt als een multi-instrumentalist bij uitstek: hij is een virtuoos fluitist en pianist, speelt tuba, accordeon, percussie en cavaquinho.
Hermeto was born in Arapiraca (June 22nd 1936), countryside of Alagoas (Northeast Brazil) and, as a child, learned to play the flute and the accordion.
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 Hermeto Pascoal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermeto often uses non-conventional instruments such as teapots, children's toys and, sometimes, animals.
Davis has said that Pascoal was "the most impressive musician in the world".
Known as o bruxo (the sorcerer), o mago (the magician) or "o campeão" (the champion), Pascoal is a true albino.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermeto_Pascoal   (334 words)

  
 BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - Jovino Santos, ambassador of Hermeto Pascoal - Brazilian Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hermeto also knows how to write music that is just beyond what you are capable of playing at the time, so that in the process of studying that particular piece you learn exactly that new skill that was lacking.
Hermeto said that this was to form the musical ideas in our minds, a way to increase our repertoire of ideas, so that when we would play a solo, at last, there would be a lot more inspiration to draw from.
Hermeto was a real inspiration for this path, because he wrote music for us to play that was just beyond what we were capable of at the moment.
www.brazil-brasil.com /musdec96.htm   (5771 words)

  
 BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - MUSIC - Sorcerer Hermeto Pascoal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hermeto's knack for creating musical instruments from found objects and "junk" reminds others of the American composer of experimental music and inventor of instruments Harry Partch.
Cantor believes that Hermeto's genius is neglected in the United States because he is Brazilian and doesn't speak much English, because he is uncompromising and can be very difficult to work with, and because virtually all of his work is instrumental music.
Hermeto's total instrumental mastery, his rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic ingenuity, and his vision that embraces all musical forms and sounds has always impressed the conductor.
www.brazzil.com.cob-web.org:8888 /musaug96.htm   (1668 words)

  
 Daniel Pezzotti - Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal was borned in Alagoas, northeast Brazil, in a very small town named Arapiraca.
Hermeto immediately accepted to come (despite he's very afraid about airplanes!) and landed in Switzerland with his very well known brazilian musicians who at that time were his band's members: Carlos Malta (saxophones and flutes), Jovino Santos Neto (piano and keyboards), Itiberê Zwarg (bass), Márcio Bahia (drums), Pernambuco (percussion) and Fábio Pascoal (percussion).
Hermeto Pascoal at the "Jazznojazz" in Zurich (2000)
www.pezzotti.ch /hermen.htm   (618 words)

  
 Hermeto Pascoal Discography - Slipcue.com Brazilian Music Guide
Brazilian jazz multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal hails from the Northeastern state of Pernambuco, and started his professional career as a teenager playing in local forro bands, performing the music of Luiz Gonzaga, Humerto Teixeira, and other local heroes.
Hermeto Pascoal, Airto Moreira and a reconstituted edition of their famed Quarteo Novo back composer Edu Lobo on this fine, classic album; Aloysio Oliveira produced it as one of his later releases on the Elenco label.
Hermeto Pascoal "Brasil Universo" (Som Da Gente, 1986)
www.slipcue.com /music/brazil/pascoal.html   (1080 words)

  
 Guardian | Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal is one of the great originals of Brazilian music, yet he rarely shows up on the world music radar.
Pascoal occasionally leads big bands full of UK musicians, but he doesn't quite fit the jazz composer mould either.
One of Pascoal's specialities (in addition to solo outings on sanfona and cow horn), is to sing along with his electric piano.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5248381-110430,00.html   (330 words)

  
 CD Review of Mike Marshall and Jovino Santos Neto - Serenata: The Music Of Hermeto Pascoal on Adventure Music @ ...
It is a tribute to the internationally-renowned Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal and consists entirely of his compositions.
Pascoal (now 65 years old) is a self-taught musician who began his study of music as a young child in his grandfather’s flsmith shop, where he used to pick up pieces of iron and hit them in an attempt to create music.
The music of Hermeto Pascoal, as it is presented here, is an equal mix of jazz, new age, classical and Brazilian folk.
www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=7071   (530 words)

  
 Hermeto
Pascoal is a treasure in the international music community.
Known for whimsical complexity in his music, Pascoal is a self-made prodigy with a mastery over countless styles in both compostition and in musicianship as he performs with virtuosic skill on virtually any instrument imaginable.
Pascoal is a sonic explorer and he can extract engaging sounds out of objects ranging from pots and pans to sewing machines.
www.thaliaproductions.com /Hermeto.html   (193 words)

  
 Keyboard Magazine - Hermeto Pascoal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hermeto’s skill with found objects is just one manifestation of the composer and multi-instrumentalist’s tremendous musical depth.
Given the complexity, lyricism, and energy of his work, it’s no surprise that Hermeto is widely regarded as a genius, both among fans and fellow musicians.
Hermeto’s accordion is more of a melodic instrument than a harmonic one, says squeezebox guru Rob Curto: "Each row of buttons on the right is set up as if it were a harmonica — opening and closing the bellows is the equivalent of blowing and sucking air.
www.keyboardmag.com /story.asp?storyCode=7822   (478 words)

  
 Schott Music - Shop - Pascoal, Hermeto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hermeto Pascoal is an innovative musician and creates the most unusual sounds from bottles, stones and shoes for a kind of music which incorporates jazz, rock, experimental, popular and traditional music.
Pascoal appeared at the renowned jazz festivals in Montreux and Berlin and also toured extensively.
The jazz icon was most impressed by the compositions Pascoal had brought with him.
www.schott-music.com /shop/artists/show,52689.html   (133 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Montreux Jazz Festival: Music: Hermeto Pascoal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
It is just satisfying that Hermeto is still performing concerts in the new millenium, despite the setback of his own ill health and loss of his beloved wife Ilza last year.
Hermeto does his improvising mainly on the clavinete and piano, but the tour-de-force are his sinewy lines performed on the escaleta(also known as melodica), a small keyboard instrument that is blown into by the mouth, allowing for many wonderful techniques as "tounging",growling, vocalizing, etc.
Hermeto's most wonderful moment comes when he joyfully tells the audience of his inspiration derived from the beauty of the Montreux vistas, and that he wrote a nice ballad in his hotel room as homanaje.
www.amazon.com /Montreux-Jazz-Festival-Hermeto-Pascoal/dp/B000062WLU   (1072 words)

  
 Hermeto Pascoal - Verve Records
Developing his ears from an early age at his grandfather's flsmith shop, Pascoal used to pick up pieces of iron and hit them, trying to create music (not to emulate the harmonics of his father's eight-bass button accordion, as has been spread).
Pascoal's first solo LP, Hermeto (Cobblestone), was recorded in 1971 in New York and was produced by Ron Carter and Flora Purim.
His live performance at the 1979 Montreux Jazz Festival was recorded on a double LP and released through Warner: Hermeto Pascoal ao Vivo.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=per&srs=prd&aid=4181   (982 words)

  
 :: Adventure Music :: Bringing You the BEST of Brazil....and Beyond
In the 15 years that followed, Jovino, along with his colleagues Carlos Malta (saxophones and flute), Itiberê Zwarg (bass), Marcio Bahia (drums), Fabio Pascoal (percussion) and Pernambuco (percussion), created an ensemble under the leadership of Hermeto, that has been considered one of the premier groups in the world.
They rehearsed for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, and Hermeto, inspired by their talent and dedication, composed hundreds of themes that extend the boundaries of contemporary music.
The Hermeto Pascoal Group made several records, all of them co-produced by Jovino Santos Neto, and they played hundreds of concerts all over the world.
www.adventure-music.com /artist_bio.asp?artist_id=0008   (325 words)

  
 BBC - Jazz Review - Hermeto Pascoal, Slave's Mass
Hermeto Pascoal, the Brazilianmulti-instrumentalist whose contribution to jazz is beyond measure ever since the short-lived Quarteto Novo andhis collaboration with Miles Davison Live Evil, surrounds himself witha stellarline-up on this long awaited reissue.
Hermeto's soprano playing recalls Wayne Shorter's (with a flair for the experimental as in Weather Report's I Sing The Body Electric).
On "Cannon", (dedicated to alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley), Hermeto's speech-likeflute is the principal voice.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/release/jhdp   (320 words)

  
 Improvised Music Company: Jazz & World Music in Ireland - From Brazil: Hermeto Pascoal Big Band
Far from being a contrivance, this wilful eclecticism is borne of this self taught musician's deep affinity with the natural world, inspired by the rainforest cacophony of his native Lagoa da Canoa in north-eastern Brazil.
Its further evidence that Hermeto is a conduit for a ceaseless creativity from some enigmatic source, and it shows no sign of abating as he ushers in his seventh decade.
Three decades on, Pascoal is joined by a twenty piece jazz orchestra drawn from the highest echelons of UK jazz for this unmissable concert.
www.improvisedmusic.ie /news.html?id=49   (441 words)

  
 Biografías del Jazz: Hermeto Pascoal
Junto con sus hermanos, todos albinos, comenzó a tocar el piano en la década de los cincuenta en formato de trío.
animó a Hermeto a unirse al grupo, formando así el grupo que le dio a conocer internacionalmente:
Hermeto vuelve a Brasil en 1973 y graba un disco titulado:
www.apoloybaco.com /hermetopascoalbiografia.htm   (282 words)

  
 Hermeto Pascoal - Artist Detail Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hermeto Pascoal – noted Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Pascoal's sextet is an extra-sensory musical unit that has been with him for over 10 years and rehearses daily.
The music runs from the lyrical and romantic to raucous, from folkloric to his futuristic angular melodies, often creating a dense barrage of sound.
www.eyefortalent.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/artist.detail/artist_id/32   (192 words)

  
 Música - Herberto Pascoal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
O limite da criatividade de Hermeto Pascoal é o infinito.
Consagrado e respeitado internacionalmente, Hermeto rompe todas barreiras conceituais e musicais, enriquecendo a música popular brasileira e universal.
Internationally renowned and acclaimed, Hermeto Pascoal transcends conceptual and musical spheres, adding to the richness of popular music in Brazil and the world.
www.culturgest.pt /actual/hermeto.html   (134 words)

  
 The Weird Wizardry Of Hermeto Pascoal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
But given Pascoal's one-man-band virtuosity (he plays accordion, piano, electric keyboards, saxophones, trumpet, flutes, tuba, violin, melodica, drums, guitar and miscellaneous percussion instruments and adds idiosyncratic whistling and vocalizations to his music), plus the virtual certainty that Marshall will sit in and the possibility that former O Grupo member
Pascoal moved back to Brazil in 1973 and now lives in Rio, but he revisited the US in 1976 to record Slave's Mass, a tour de force that featured jazz bassist Ron Carter, Weather Report drummer Alphonso Johnson and Moreira and Purim.
Pascoal is an alchemist of the highest degree.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/11/08/derk.DTL   (1182 words)

  
 Hermeto Pascoal CDs & Links: Brazilian Music (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
This 2002 release was the first from Hermeto's 'Grupo' after a 10 year recording hiatus.
Hermeto plays tea pots, toys, and ever sings with his mouth full of water.
The compositions, "cousins" *Sao Jorge" and the "cosmic baiao" *Santo Antonio* recall Hermeto's roots in the Alagoas state.
www.thebraziliansound.com.cob-web.org:8888 /hermeto.htm   (843 words)

  
 CD Review of Mark Weinstein - Tudo de Bom/Music from Hermeto Pascoal's "Calendário do som" on LKC Productions @ ...
The resulting flood of recordings has had a very varied relationship to authentic Brazilian forms, but no-one is more representative of the heart of this genre than Hermeto Pascoal.
Pianist, flautist, guitarist, bassist, instrument builder, arranger and composer, Hermeto is regarded by many musicians as the great genius of Brazilian jazz and one of the most extraordinary musicians in the world, profoundly influencing artists such as Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, and Milton Nascimento.
In 1996, upon reaching the age of sixty, Pascoal decided to celebrate by composing one piece of music every day for the next year.
www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=8232   (550 words)

  
 Hermeto Pascoal Festa Dos Deuses » Torrentspy.com
Hermeto Pascoal - 02 - Rainha da Pedra Azul.mp3
Hermeto Pascoal - 03 - Viajando Pelo Brasil.mp3
Hermeto Pascoal - 04 - O Farol Que Nos Guia.mp3
torrentspy.com /torrent/893979/Hermeto_Pascoal_Festa_Dos_Deuses   (500 words)

  
 World Music Central - Brazilian Innovator Hermeto Pascoal in Britain
London, England - Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal will be performing this weekend at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
As well as Cheltenham, Hermeto Pascoal also plays the Norfolk & Norwich Festival (May 5) and London's Barbican (May 9).
Nicknamed the 'Sorcerer', he is as likely to produce a piece for kitchen utensils as improvised solos on keyboard or flute.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20040428150822769   (266 words)

  
 Mike Marshall and Jovino Santos Neto — Serenato: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal — Adventure Music (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
While he is not considered a choro musician, Pascoal is a fiercely prolific Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Pascoal is an accomplished flutist, guitarist, pianist, and trumpet player, among other instruments, but also is just as likely to include pots and pans, garden implements, and household appliances in his complex compositions.
In this recording, Marshall is partnered with pianist Jovino Santos Neto, a fifteen-year veteran of Pascoal’s musical group and the only curator and promoter of Pascoal’s music.
www.audaud.com.cob-web.org:8888 /article.php?ArticleID=1821   (489 words)

  
 ACTEVA:Hermeto Pascoal and Monica Salmaso
Hermeto Pascoal, dubbed 'the sorcerer,' is the idiosyncratic, multi-instrumental genius of Brazilian music.
With his group, Pascoal, primarily a pianist and flutist, creates soaring versions of Brazilian musical forms out of any objects available.
The 33-year-old Brazilian, endowed with a warmed-molasses voice, has won two awards for best Brazilian vocalist for her songs of love, work, devotion, and legends.
www.acteva.com /booking.cfm?bevaid=73283   (193 words)

  
 freeform.org : Hermeto Pascoal (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Hermeto Pascoal is pretty much the ultimate force to be reckoned w/when it comes to Brazilian free jazz.  He plays on some of those early 70's Miles Davis monsters, and his disc Só Não Toca Quem Não Quer ("Only if you don't want it you can't do it") is a really good introduction.
These have to be some of the strangest orchestral arrangements that I have ever heard.
Slaves Mass is unevenly relevant to Kozmigroov: its coolest feature is the use of live pigs as percussion.
www.freeform.org.cob-web.org:8888 /music/p/Hermeto_Pascoal.html   (123 words)

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