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The Arts Intel Report

Hermeto Pascoal and his Group

February 15, 2020
Av. Paulista, 2073 - Consolação, São Paulo - SP, 01311-300, Brazil

In 1971, when Pascoal clambered onto the world stage with Miles Davis’s Live-Evil, the tight-lipped Miles is said to have called him “the most impressive musician in the world.” At 83, the wild-haired Merlin of Brazilian jazz still flabbergasts, conjuring music from instruments known and unknown and, seemingly, from the very fabric of nature itself. —E.E.