In the last episode of this special series dedicated to Hermeto Pascoal and his music, we´re gonna take a look at a very special period of his career. It begins when Hermeto goes back to live in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. He settled himself in Bairro Jabour, in the suburbs of the city and from that point on, started to dedicate all his energy to his own music, after getting tired of unsuccessfully trying to create his permanent group in São Paulo and of the many trips he would make to the United States to play on other people’s records. Hermeto was also tired of the unsatisfactory results from working with different musicians on his own works. From the moment he went back to Rio, this project (of having a permanent group he could develop his music with) gradually came to reality, finally happenning in 1981.

After that happened, they stayed together for 12 years, rehearsing 5 times a week, 6 hours a day, recorded 6 albums and did a huge number of tours around the world. As they say, “the rest is history”. This history is what we’ll take a look at on today’s show. Come in and listen!

Zabumbê-bum-á - 1979
1-Alexandre, Marcelo e Pablo (Nenê)
2-São Jorge (Hermeto Pascoal)

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival - 1979
3-Forró Brasil (Hermeto Pascoal)

Cérebro Magnético- 1980
4-Música das Nuvens e do Chão

Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo - 1982
5-Série de Arco (Hermeto Pascoal)

Lagoa da Canoa - 1984
6-Aquela Coisa (Hermeto Pascoal)

Brasil Universo - 1986
7-Era Pra Ser e Não Foi (Hermeto Pascoal)
8-E Nem Dá Pra Dizer (Hermeto Pascoal)

Só Não Toca Quem Não Quer - 1987
9-Quiabo (Hermeto Pascoal)

Mundo Verde Esperança - 1989 (Never released)
10-Acuri (Hermeto Pascoal)

Festa dos Deuses - 1992
11-Canção no Paiol em Curitiba (Hermeto Pascoal)
12-Viajando Pelo Brasil (Hermeto Pascoal)

Hermeto also released a Solo Piano album for Som da Gente in 1989 called “Por Diferentes Caminhos”.

This special period ended in 1992 the group went on it’s first personnel change since 1981 when Jovino and Carlos Malta left the group. Since then, Hermeto has released 3 records, Eu e Eles (1999), Mundo Verde Esperança (2002) and Chimarrão com Rapadura (2006), and keeps doing solo, duo and group concerts all over the world. Miscelânea Vanguardiosa will make a show dedicated to these more recent times later this year.

For more on the 80s period of Hermeto & Grupo, check our show Miscelânea-27

For more on the most recent Hermeto record, listen to our portuguese show Miscelânea 15, dedicated to Chimarrão com Rapadura

Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Live Teatro Hilton - 1987 - Sharing permitted by Hermeto
Part 1
Part 2

Download all Hermeto & Grupo out-of-print records from the recovered Som da Gente Label catalog at Abracadabra.

This week we go on with our special series dedicated to multi-instrumentalist / composer / arranger Hermeto Pascoal, and today we’ll take a look at the period that begins when he traveled to USA. There, his explosive appearance led him to his first solo record, besides getting the admiration of some of the greatest american musicians like Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Cannonball Adderley and Joe Farrel, among others.

We’ll also get to know about his way back to Brazil, the recording of his first brazilian album as a leader and the beginning of his search to create his own group. It was a period of many trips to USA and back, participating on the records of many other musicians and that ended after his travel to Los Angeles in 1977 to record one more american solo album, Slaves Mass.

Hermeto arrived in New York in 1970, attracted by the invitation and good news sent to him by his friend Airto Moreira, who was playing with Miles Davis and had just signed a deal to record his own album. This travel had a great impact in his career, closing this period in 77 when Hermeto stopped his trips to USA for a long time. He would only come back many years later, after settling down in Rio de Janeiro with his group.

Listen to the show and know more…

Tide - Tom Jobim - 1970
1-Tema Jazz (Tom Jobim)

Natural Feelings e Seeds on the Ground - Airto Moreira - 1970
2-Xibaba (Airto Moreira)
3-Nas Quebradas (Hermeto Pascoal)
4-Papo Furado (Hermeto Pascoal)

Sergio Mendes Presents Lobo - Edu Lobo - 1970
5-Sharp Tongue (Hermeto Pascoal)

Cantiga de Longe - Edu Lobo - 1970
6-Zanzibar (Edu Lobo)

Live Evil - Miles Davis - 1970
7-Nem Um Talvez (Hermeto Pascoal)

Hermeto (Brazilian Adventure) - Hermeto Pascoal - 1972
8-Alicate (Hermeto Pascoal)
9-Hermeto (Hermeto Pascoal)
10-Coalhada (Hermeto Pascoal)

A Música Livre de Hermeto Pascoal - Hermeto Pascoal - 1973
11-Bebê (Hermeto Pascoal)
12-Carinhoso (Pixinguinha)

Missa dos Escravos - Hermeto Pascoal - 1977
13-Chorinho pra Ele (Hermeto Pascoal)
14-Aquela Valsa (Hermeto Pascoal)
15-Campo Grande (Hermeto Pascoal)

We’re finally back after our extended Carnival break!! In fact, I used this time to change the look of our page and I’ve been working on some surprises that I’ll be very happy to announce very soon. To come back in high profile, this is the first good news: Today we’ll begin a series of very special podcasts on Miscelânea Vanguardiosa, dedicated to the musical pathways of great master Hermeto Pascoal. We’ll make a beautiful trip through his music and it’s very different periods.

At the first program, we’ll take a look at Hermeto’s early recordings (1958-1969), during the period he lived in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, after coming from his homeland Lagoa da Canoa (and living in Recife for some years) and before going to the United States and changing radically the direction of his career. Listen to the show and you’ll enter a journey through some of the most beautiful sounds ever created…

Pernambuco do Pandeiro e seu Regional (1958)
1-De Perna Bamba (Guio de Moraes)
2-Homenagem à Velha Guarda (Sivuca)

Conjunto Som 4 (1964)
3-Nanã (Moacir Santos)
4-Inútil Paisagem (Tom Jobim / Aloysio de Oliveira)
5-Deixa (Baden Powell / Vinícius de Moraes)

Sambrasa Trio (1966)
6-Arrastão (Edu Lobo / Vinícius de Moraes)
7-Coalhada (Hermeto Pascoal)
8-Lamento Nortista (Humberto Clayber)

Quarteto Novo (1967)
9-Algodão (Luiz Gonzaga / Zé Dantas)
10-Canto Geral (Hermeto Pascoal)
11-Eu Vim de Santana (Théo de Barros)
12-Ponteio (Edu Lobo / Capinan)

Brazilian Octopus (1969)
13-Gamboa (Ciro Pereira / Mario Albanese)
14-Summerhill (João Pegoraro)
15-Casa Forte (Edu Lobo)

On today’s show we’ll listen to Armazém, an amazing sextet from São Paulo and it’s explosive sound that combines the structural possibilities of concert music with the rhythmic and expressive elements of brazilian popular music thru compositions and arrangements rich in creativity and new aural landscapes. The result is contemporary brazilian music deeply rooted in the tradition but with it’s eyes clearly pointing to the future.

1-Pedra Grande (Sérgio Cardoso)
2-Natal na Ucrânia (Sérgio Cardoso)
3-Metaxote (Sérgio Cardoso)
4-Vertigem (Sérgio Cardoso)
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1-K-Ximbando (Sáergio Cardoso)
2-Marchinha de um Carnaval em Ercília (Sérgio Cardoso)
3-Frevura (Nenê)
4-Pássaro Exótico (Sérgio Cardoso)

Armazém - Official Website

CD Pedra Grande - Editio Princeps

Today we have another Choro special, this time featuring Nó em Pingo D’Água, a group that for eighteen years has been pushing the style towards new directions through original compositions and arrangements that bring new sounds and inject life in brazilian instrumental music’s most tradicional(ist) style.

1-Pagode Jazz Sardinhas Club (Rodrigo Lessa/Eduardo Neves)
2-Choro de Criança (Mario Seve)
3-Conversa Fiada (Rogério Souza)
4-De Soslaio (Rodrigo Lessa)
5-Deu um Nó (Mario Seve)
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1-Travessuras de Maíra (Papito)
2-Escapulindo (Paulinho da Viola)
3-Sarau pra Radamés (Paulinho da Viola)
4-Chuva Fina Também Molha (Paulinho da Viola)
5-Domingo na Geral (Cristóvão Bastos)

Discography
Official Website

Buy Choro CD’s and other brazilian music CD’s here: Biscoito Fino the best label from Brazil, incredibly great releases!!

Come inside and listen to a classic concert by Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo. This live recording comes from a Stockholm 1987 radio show, and it captures all the energy displayed by Hermeto’s group during the 12 years they’ve been together with it’s classic line-up. It also features some really beautiful unreleased compositions by Hermeto, so this a rare oportunity to listen to some explosive live tracks by the man and his group.

1-Zurich
2-Tupizando
3-Manhã
4-Mente Clara
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1-Autumn Leaves
2-Suíte Universal
3-Rebuliço

This show features the music of brazilian drummer / composer / arranger Nenê that, besides having played with Egberto Gismonti and Hermeto Pascoal (among other brazilian greats) has an incredibly beautiful solo career as a leader.

1-Itiberê
2-Baby Rose in New York
3-Salvador
4-Pablo e Luciane
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1-Garrote
2-Maracatu pra Tu
3-Outubro em Paris
4-Prezado Amigo Zeca

All compositions/arrangements by Nenê

Nenê Website
Buy
Nenê Cd Bugre/Minuano - Editio Princeps
Nenê CD Ogã - Mixhouse

On this week’s show, we’ll listen to Harvey Wainapel and Paulo Bellinati’s New Choros of Brazil, a beautiful and delicate collection of Brazil’s modern choro compositions and composers.

1-Aos Amigos do Trio (Sérgio Santos)
2-Choro do Adeus (Nelson Ayres)
3-O Cabo Pitanga (Laércio de Freitas)
4-Simpática (Ricardo Peixoto/Claudio Villela)
5-Pra Quem Quiser me Visitar (Guinga/Aldir Blanc)
6-Seu Laércio na Cozinha (Harvey Wainapel)

Beginning our second year and debuting our podcast in english, we bring you 11 Cabeças, a small orchestra (but great group!) from Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian instrumental music at it’s best, full of rhythm and nicely crafted arrangements.

1-Seleção Nota 11 (Henrique Band)
2-Mei Cá, Mei Lá (Henrique Band)
3-Little Sunflower (Freddie Hubbard)
4-Chovendo na Roseira - Double Rainbow (Tom Jobim)
5-Saudade D’elia (Henrique Band)
6-Um Samba pro Paulinho (Henrique Band

For More Info:
11 Cabeças Youtube Videos
Bruno Migliari