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

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