Hermeto Pascoal
Hermeto Pascoal ( born June 22, 1936 in Lagoa da Canoa in the Brazilian state of Alagoas ) is today considered the best-known multi-instrumentalist and avant-garde musicians in Brazil. He is regarded as a Brazilian " jazz luminary "; " With its combination of melodic imagination, free jazz and complex Brazilian rhythms, of sophisticated orchestration and free development in open sample forms " Pascoal has decisive contribution to the development of a contemporary rhythmic music with improvisation shares as many composers and arrangers from the direct jazz radius. Karl Lippegaus called him on the occasion of his 75th birthday even " Brazil's answer to Sun Ra. "
Life and work
Hermeto Pascoal is albino and his appearance as his musical expression creates a unique appearance. He plays a number of instruments such as accordion, saxophone, flute, guitar and various percussion instruments and keyboard instruments. In Brazil it is called " O Bruxo " ( the sorcerer, the sorcerer ), " because he can make music with all that surrounds him ." In addition, his modernization of choro music in the late 1960s, the Brazilian music " important impulses and inspired artists such as Laurindo Almeida " was.
His first musical experience from Hermeto Pascoal at the age of 10 years with the instruments accordion and flute. His first stage appearances followed with his older brother José Neto. 1950 the family moved to Recife, where the two played together accordion at local radio stations.
A little later, Hermeto Pascoal began looking for new sounds to take first musical experiments and to learn any instrument which he could lay hands on. Pascoal is self-taught and mixed many different styles such as Brazilian music, jazz and contemporary music and comes again and again to surprising results. One of his projects be Calendário do Som, a project, as it were a musical diary, where he spent a year composing a new piece every day.
In the 1960s he worked in Rio de Janeiro in his Bossa Nova group and Sérgio Mendes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In 1964 he founded the Trio Sambrasa; Airto Moreira was there to be the most important partner, with whom he played in the Quartetto Novo. In the following years began many years working with musicians such as Edu Lobo, Miles Davis, or Elis Regina, what it made known in many countries. Only in 1972, his first album released under his own name, the rapidly more albums followed. His album A Música Livre de Hermeto Paschoal (1973 ), published at the time of the military dictatorship was to an album of Brazilian counterculture. On the album Slave Mass he sat live pigs, which he pulled by the tail, as percussion instruments. The album Eu e Eles (1999) he played a single-handedly with dozens of different instruments.
Pascoal works with a permanent group. The samples work with her - part of his process-based understanding composition - taking place every day; He lived for many years with his ensemble in a commune.
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Musical reception
His compositions have also been performed by the Symphony Orchestra Copenhagen, Berlin Philharmonic and Youth Symphony São Paulo. In 2009, the hr-Bigband CD Viva o som! included compositions by Hermeto Pascoal. The arrangements are from saxophonist Steffen Schorn.
Lexigraphic entries
- Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
- Martin Kunzler jazz lexicon. Volume 2 Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3499165139