Editing Hermeto Pascoal (section)

===Early life and career===
[[File:HermetoBsAs78-Arturo-Encina.jpg|thumb|left|Pascoal live in Buenos Aires 1978.]]
Pascoal comes from Northeastern Brazil, in an area that lacked electricity at the time he was born. He learned the accordion from his father and practiced for hours indoors, as, being born with [[Albinism in humans|albinism]], he was incapable of working in the countryside with the rest of his family.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" />

From an early age, Pascoal was playing sanfona, meaning [[button accordion]]. At age eight, he started with the flute. Pascoal was a self-taught child prodigy. When he was eleven, he started performing in musical groups with his brother (Jose Neto Pascoal) and father (Pascoal José da Costa). He and his family moved to [[Recife]] in 1950. Pascoal starting playing in some groups there that would start getting radio time, and by 1960, he picked up the saxophone and created the group Som Quatro. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Hermeto Pascoal Booking & Management |url=https://www.akamu.net/pascoal.htm |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.akamu.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hermeto Pascoal (orch. Jovino Santos Neto) |url=https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/artists/5934/hermeto-pascoal-orch-jovino-santos-neto |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=LA Phil |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Kennedy |first=Gary W. |title=Pascoal, Hermeto |date=2003 |work=Oxford Music Online |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.j662500 |access-date=2025-04-25 |publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.j662500 }}</ref>

His career began in 1964 with appearances on several Brazilian recordings alongside relatively unknown groups. These  albums and the musicians involved ([[Edu Lobo]], [[Elis Regina]], [[Cesar Camargo Mariano]]) established widely influential new directions in post-[[bossa nova]] Brazilian jazz.

In 1966, he played in the [[Sambrasa Trio]], with [[Airto Moreira]] and [[Humberto Clayber]]; they released only one album, ''[[Em Som Maior]]''. Then he joined Trio Novo (Airto Moreira, [[Heraldo do Monte]], [[Theo de Barros]]) and in 1967 the group, renamed [[Quarteto Novo]], released an album that launched the careers of Pascoal and Moreira.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nscottrobinson.com/airto.php |title=N. Scott Robinson-World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines |publisher=Nscottrobinson.com |access-date=2011-10-22}}</ref> Pascoal would then go on to join the multi-faceted group Brazilian Octopus.<ref name=":0" />