Editing Hermeto Pascoal

{{Short description|Brazilian composer, musician and record producer}}
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| image            = Hermeto Pascoal - Portrait by Gert Chesi.jpg
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| caption          = 
| background       = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name       = 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1936|6|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Lagoa da Canoa]], [[Alagoas]], [[Brazil]]
| genre            = [[Brazilian music]], [[avant-garde jazz]],  [[forró]]
| occupation       = Musician, composer
| instrument       = {{hlist|Keyboards|accordion|flute|saxophone|guitar}}
| years_active     = 1964–present
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| website          = {{URL|www.hermetopascoal.com.br|Official website}}
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'''Hermeto Pascoal''' (born June 22, 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in [[Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas]], [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/pascoal.html|title=Hermeto Pascoal Discography - Slipcue.com Brazilian Music Guide}}</ref> Pascoal is best known in [[music of Brazil|Brazilian music]] for his orchestration and improvisation, as well as for being a [[record producer]] and contributor to many Brazilian and international albums.<ref name=ALLMUSIC>{{cite web|last=Neder |first=Alvaro |url={{AllMusic|class=artist |id=p112663/biography |pure_url=yes}} |title=Hermeto Pascoal |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2011-10-22}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Quietus |first=The |date=2022-01-18 |title=The Strange World Of… Hermeto Pascoal |url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/strange-world-of/hermeto-pascoal/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=The Quietus |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Biography==
===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" />

===International fame===
[[File:Hermeto Pascoal y Grupo.jpg|thumb|300px|Hermeto Pascoal and group, 2009]]
Pascoal initially caught the international public's attention with an appearance on [[Miles Davis]]'s 1971 album ''[[Live-Evil (Miles Davis album)|Live-Evil]]'', which featured him on three pieces, which he also composed.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" /> Davis allegedly called Pascoal "the most impressive musician in the world".<ref name="jazztimes">{{Cite web | title=Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa: Viajando Com O Som (The Lost '76 Vice-Versa Studio Session) (Far Out) | first=Jeff | last=Tamarkin | author-link=Jeff Tamarkin | date=2018 | website=[[JazzTimes]] | url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/hermeto-pascoal-grupo-vice-versa/ | access-date=26 April 2020 }}</ref> Later collaborations involved fellow Brazilian musicians Airto Moreira and [[Flora Purim]]. From the late 1970s onward, he has mostly led his own groups, playing at many prestigious venues, such as the [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] in 1979. Other members of the group have included bassist Itibere Zwarg, pianist [[Jovino Santos-Neto]] and percussionists Nene, Pernambuco, and [[Zabelê]]. <ref name=":0" />

Known as ''o Bruxo'' (the Sorcerer), Pascoal often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children's toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordions, [[melodica]], saxophones, guitars, flutes, voices, various brass and folkloric instruments.<ref>{{cite web |title=Razor-Edged Sound (Thump-a-Thump-a) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/arts/music/09neu.html |website=The New York Times |date=8 August 2010 |access-date=9 August 2024 |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon }}</ref><ref name="ALLMUSIC" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=2004-11-02 |title=Playful Complexities via Zany Professor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/arts/music/playful-complexities-via-zany-professor.html |access-date=2024-08-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his ''Música da Lagoa'', in which the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon: a Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water. Folk music from rural Brazil is another important influence in his work.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" />

Between 1996 and 1997, Pascoal worked on a book project called ''Calendário do Som'', which contains a song for every day of the year, including February 29, so that everyone would have a song for their birthday.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" />

He was married to Ilza da Silva, to whom he dedicated many compositions, from 1954 until her death in 2000. They had six children, Jorge, Fábio, Flávia, Fátima, Fabiula, and Flávio, and many grandchildren. Hermeto was later married to Aline Morena from 2003 until 2016, while living in [[Curitiba, Paraná]], Brazil.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Aos 77 anos, músico cult Hermeto Pascoal agora quer ser pop - 23/02/2014 - Serafina - Folha de S.Paulo|url = http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/serafina/2014/02/1415484-aos-77-anos-musico-cult-hermeto-pascoal-agora-quer-ser-pop.shtml|website =Folha de S.Paulo|access-date = 2016-01-10|language = pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Aline e Hermeto - namoro musical em Santa Felicidade|url = http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/caderno-g/aline-e-hermeto---namoro-musical-em-santa-felicidade-9h3nqua1d08edwj65ngszy2by|website = Gazeta do Povo|access-date = 2017-01-08|language = pt}}</ref><ref name="www1.folha.uol.com.br">{{Cite web|title = Aos 80, multi-instrumentista Hermeto Pascoal ainda se sente uma criança|url = http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2016/06/1783703-aos-80-multi-instrumentista-hermeto-pascoal-ainda-se-sente-uma-crianca.shtml|website = Folha de S.Paulo|access-date = 2017-01-08|language = pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rohter |first=Larry |date=2004-10-29 |title=Brazilian Jazz Master Begins U.S. Tour |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/brazilian-jazz-master-begins-us-tour.html |access-date=2024-08-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

He has since returned to the Jabour neighborhood in [[Bangu, Rio de Janeiro]], where he spends much of his time composing, rehearsing and hosting musicians from all over the world.<ref name="www1.folha.uol.com.br" />

In 2019, his album ''Hermeto Pascoal e Sua Visão Original do Forró'' won the [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Portuguese Language Roots Album]].<ref name="billboardLG19">{{cite magazine |last1=Cabo |first1=Leila |title=Latin Grammys 2019 Winners: Complete List |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8543699/latin-grammys-2019-winners-list |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |publisher=[[MRC (company)|MRC]] |access-date=9 September 2020 |date=14 November 2019}}</ref>

==Discography==
===As leader or member===
* 1964: ''Conjunto Som 4'' (with Conjunto Som 4)
* 1966: ''[[Em Som Maior]]'' (with [[Sambrasa Trio]])
* 1967: ''[[Quarteto Novo (album)|Quarteto Novo]]'' (with [[Quarteto Novo]])
* 1969: ''Brazilian Octopus'' (with Brazilian Octopus)
* 1970: ''Hermeto Pascoal'' (solo debut, reissued on CD as ''Brazilian Adventure'') (featuring [[Googie Coppola]])
* 1973: ''A música livre de Hermeto Pascoal''
* 1977: ''[[Slaves Mass]]''
* 1977: ''Trindade''
* 1979: ''Zabumbê-bum-á''
* 1979: ''Ao vivo Montreux Jazz Festival''
* 1979: ''Nova história da Música Popular Brasileira'' (compilation)
* 1980: ''Cérebro magnético''
* 1981: ''Planetário da Gávea''
* 1982: ''Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo'' (reissued by Westwind Germany on CD as ''The Legendary Improviser''. The reissue appears to be a copy from vinyl.)
* 1984: ''Lagoa da Canoa, Município de Arapiraca''
* 1986: ''Brasil Universo''
* 1987: ''Só não toca quem não quer''
* 1988: ''Hermeto solo: por diferentes caminhos''
* 1992: ''Festa dos deuses''
* 1993: ''Instrumental no CCBB'' (with Renato Borghetti)
* 1998: ''Música!: o melhor da música de Hermeto Pascoal'' (compilation)
* 1999: ''Eu e eles''
* 2002: ''Mundo verde esperança''
* 2006: ''Chimarrão com rapadura'' (with Aline Morena)
* 2010: ''Bodas de Latão'' (with Aline Morena)
* 2013: ''Hermeto Pascoal: The Monash Sessions''
* 2017: ''No Mundo dos Sons''
* 2017: ''Viajando com o som'' (recorded in 1976)
* 2017: ''Natureza Universal''
* 2018: ''Made of Music'' 
* 2018: ''E sua visão original do forró''
* 2024: ''Pra você, Ilza''

===As contributor===
* 1956: ''Ritmos Alucinantes'', by Clovis Pereira
* 1959: ''Batucando no Morro'', by Pernambuco do Pandeiro e seu regional
* 1970: ''Natural Feelings'', by [[Airto Moreira]]
* 1970: ''[[Electric Byrd]]'', by [[Donald Byrd]]
* 1970: ''[[Sergio Mendes Presents Lobo]]'', by [[Edu Lobo]]
* 1970: ''[[It Could Only Happen with You]]'', by [[Duke Pearson]]
* 1970: ''[[Live-Evil (Miles Davis album)|Live-Evil]]'', by [[Miles Davis]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quietus |first=The |date=2022-01-18 |title=The Strange World Of… Hermeto Pascoal |url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/strange-world-of/hermeto-pascoal/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=The Quietus |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 1971: ''Cantiga de Longe'', by [[Edu Lobo]]
* 1971: ''Seeds on the Ground'', by [[Airto Moreira]]
* 1975: ''Di Melo'', by Di Melo
* 1976: ''[[Imyra, Tayra, Ipy - Taiguara|Imyra, Tayra, Ipy]]'', by [[Taiguara]]
* 1976: ''[[Open Your Eyes You Can Fly]]'', by [[Flora Purim]]
* 1976  ''Goldenwings'', by [[Opa (Uruguayan band)|Opa]]
* 1977: ''Orós'', by [[Raimundo Fagner]]
* 1978: ''Robertinho no passo'', by [[Robertinho de Recife]]
* 1979: ''Sivuca'', by [[Sivuca]]
* 1979: ''Live in Montreux'', by [[Elis Regina]]
* 1980: ''Stone Alliance'', by [[Márcio Montarroyos]]
* 1983: ''Cordas vivas'', by [[Heraldo do Monte]]
* 1984: ''Ponto do músicos'', by Nenê
* 1986: ''Balãozinho'', by Eduardo Gudin
* 1986: ''Cordas mágicas'', by [[Heraldo do Monte]]
* 1986: ''Pindorama'', by [[Pau Brasil]]
* 1987: ''Flávio Pantoja'', by Flavio Pantoja
* 1987: ''Dharana'', by [[Dharana]]
* 1996: ''Brasil Musical - Série Música Viva - Pau Brasil E Hermeto Pascoal|Brasil Musical - Série Música Viva'' (with Pau Brasil)
* 1998: ''Maritmo'', by [[Adriana Calcanhotto]] (on track "Canção por Acaso")
* 2000: ''Oferenda'', by Aleuda
* 2000: ''[[Nação Nordestina]]'', by [[Zé Ramalho]] (on track "Violando com Hermeto")
* 2003: ''Serenata: The Music of Hermeto Pascoal'', by [[Mike Marshall (musician)|Mike Marshall]] and [[Jovino Santos Neto]]
* 2006: ''Roda Carioca'', by [[Jovino Santos Neto]]
* 2023: ''Beams'', by [[Dan Costa (composer)]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Hermeto Pascoal}}
* [http://www.hermetopascoal.com.br/ The official site]
* [http://www.brazzil.com/musdec96.htm Interview and extensive information and discography]

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