Pascoal recorded with stars including Miles Davis, who reportedly called him ‘the most impressive musician in the world’

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he rose from a childhood of rural privation to become a favorite of jazz musicians and audiences around the world.

Il tirait son inspiration des éléments de la nature. Sa musique mariait jazz, rock et airs populaires brésiliens. Le chanteur, compositeur et multi-instrumentiste Hermeto Pascoal…

Albino sin dalla nascita, era conosciuto in Brasile, suo Paese natale, come «o Mago» per la straordinaria capacità di trasformare in musica qualsiasi oggetto

Pascoal - famed for his blend of jazz and traditional music - wrote more than 2,000 instrumental pieces.

Pascoal recorded with stars including Miles Davis, who reportedly called him ‘the most impressive musician in the world’

Hermeto Pascoal, the eccentric Brazilian multi-instrumentalist known as “The Sorcerer of Sounds” and “The Mad Genius,” has died. He was 89.

This irrepressible innovator performed in a river to test its sonic properties, used kettles and bottles as instruments and played with Miles Davis. His influence cannot be…

He playing a piglet like a bagpipe, squeezing the young porcine to extract the right degree of ‘oink’ for his 1977 album Slaves Mass