CURATION
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from this page:
by Augmented Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Hermeto Pascoal
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City/Place:
Bangu, Rio de Janeiro
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas
Life
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Bio:
Hermeto Pascoal é um compositor, arranjador e multi-instrumentista brasileiro, que toca vários instrumentos como acordeão, flauta, piano, saxofone e guitarra. Ele é conhecido por sua música experimental e surreal, que combina ritmos regionais, forró, baião, jazz e outros gêneros. Ele também é famoso por usar objetos e sons não convencionais, como bules, brinquedos, animais e água, para criar música. Ele foi chamado de "O Bruxo" e "O Mago da Música".
Pascoal nasceu em 1936 em Arapiraca ou São Brás, Alagoas. Ele era fascinado pelos sons da natureza desde criança, e começou a fazer instrumentos musicais com abóboras, canos e sucata. Ele também aprendeu a tocar acordeão com seu pai, e formou um trio com seu irmão José Neto. Ele se mudou para Recife em 1950, e depois para o Rio de Janeiro em 1961, onde se juntou a vários grupos musicais e se apresentou em programas de TV e rádio. Ele também colaborou com muitos artistas brasileiros, como Sivuca, Elis Regina, Tom Jobim e Egberto Gismonti.
Em 1970, ele foi convidado por Miles Davis para gravar em seu álbum Live-Evil. Esta foi sua primeira exposição internacional, e ele ganhou reconhecimento como músico de jazz. Ele então formou seu próprio grupo, Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo, que incluía músicos como Airto Moreira, Flora Purim e Heraldo do Monte. Ele também gravou vários álbuns, como Slaves Mass, Zabumbê-bum-á e Montreux Jazz Festival. Sua música foi elogiada por sua originalidade, criatividade e diversidade. Ele também influenciou muitos artistas de jazz, como John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny e Chick Corea.
Pascoal ainda está ativo e prolífico, e lançou mais de 40 álbuns em sua carreira. Ele também recebeu muitos prêmios e honrarias, como o Grammy Latino de Melhor Álbum de Jazz Latino em 2018, por seu álbum No Mundo dos Sons. Ele também foi nomeado Oficial da Ordem do Mérito Cultural pelo governo brasileiro, e Doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade de São Paulo. Ele é considerado um dos músicos mais importantes e inovadores da história brasileira, e um mestre da música universal.
English:
Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist, who plays various instruments such as accordion, flute, piano, saxophone, and guitar. He is known for his experimental and surreal music, which combines regional rhythms, forró, baião, jazz, and other genres. He is also famous for using unconventional objects and sounds, such as teapots, toys, animals, and water, to create music. He has been called "O Bruxo" (The Wizard) and "The Magician of Music".
Pascoal was born in 1936 in Arapiraca or São Brás, Alagoas. He was fascinated by the sounds of nature since he was a child, and he started to make musical instruments out of pumpkins, pipes, and scraps. He also learned to play the accordion from his father, and formed a trio with his brother José Neto. He moved to Recife in 1950, and then to Rio de Janeiro in 1961, where he joined various musical groups and performed on TV and radio shows. He also collaborated with many Brazilian artists, such as Sivuca, Elis Regina, Tom Jobim, and Egberto Gismonti.
In 1970, he was invited by Miles Davis to record on his album Live-Evil. This was his first international exposure, and he gained recognition as a jazz musician. He then formed his own group, Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo, which included musicians such as Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, and Heraldo do Monte. He also recorded several albums, such as Slaves Mass, Zabumbê-bum-á, and Montreux Jazz Festival. His music was praised for its originality, creativity, and diversity. He also influenced many jazz artists, such as John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, and Chick Corea.
Pascoal is still active and prolific, and has released more than 40 albums in his career. He has also received many awards and honors, such as the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album in 2018, for his album No Mundo dos Sons. He has also been named an Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit by the Brazilian government, and a Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of São Paulo. He is regarded as one of the most important and innovative musicians in Brazilian history, and a master of universal music.
Matrix Music Player
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Hermeto Pascoal, Airto Moreira, Heraldo do Monte & Theo de Barros play música nordestina jazzística.
01 O Ôvo - Quarteto Novo
8 tracks
15,581 plays |
954 views
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01 Voz e Vento - Hermeto Pascoal
13 tracks
20,671 plays |
2,936 views
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Integration is a superpower...
This technological matrix originating in Bahia, Brazil closely integrates creators around the world with each other and the entire planet. It is able to do so because it is small-world (see Wolfram):
Bahia itself, final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history, refuge for Lusitanian Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition, Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a brilliant sociocultural matrix comprised of these three peoples and more, is small-world.
America is small-world. Mozambique is small-world. Central Asia is small-world. Ukraine is small world...
Human society, the billions of us in all the complexity of our relationships, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. Neural structures in artificial intelligence are small-world...
In a small world great things are possible. In a small-world matrix they are universal.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
* I renegotiated sync rates for Earl and for The Flamingos. Now when I hear "Speedo" in a movie soundtrack (Goodfellows and others), or "I Only Have Eyes for You" (a million films), I remind myself that the artists (and now their heirs) were/are getting double what they were getting before.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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