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Based on 7 concert reviews, the critics consensus is that Hermeto Pascoal is rated as an impressive live performer, with many notable strengths. Hermeto Pascoal concert reviews describe live shows and performances as effortless and hypnotic.
Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil on June 22, 1936. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions and experiments with non-conventional instruments such as teapots, children's toys and, sometimes, animals.
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The Telegraph (UK)
November 1, 2022
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Hermeto Pascoal, a dizzying, hypnotic ride with the Bob Dylan of jazz
For his 80th birthday celebration in London Pascoal once again combined the forces of his formidable Brazilian road-band with a hand-picked British orchestra.
Hermeto Pascoal's on-stage stunts have become the stuff of legend. He's the influential Brazilian maverick who brought a pig on-stage and used it as a percussion instrument. He's been known to burble into water or solo on balloon pumps, duck calls and human skeletons.
There are similarly dadaist stunts toni
Older artists might find new ideas harder to come by, but the 75-year-old Brazilian maestro Hermeto Pascoal has the opposite problem. Even the three-hour concert he played on the last night of the 2011 London jazz festival didn't feel spacious enough for all the capriciously colourful orchestral music, percus
The eminent Brazilian musician, producer, arranger and composer Hermeto Pascoal was once described by Miles Davis, no less, as ‘the most impressive musician in the world.
