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Ao Vivo Montreux Jazz

His group's set at Montreux in July 1979.
Hermeto Pascoal, 1979

The Montreux Jazz Festival database lists concert 574 at the Casino Montreux on July 20, 1979, with Pascoal on flute, saxophone, keyboards and vocals, Cacau de Queiroz on tenor and baritone saxophone and flute, Antonio Luiz de Santana (Pernambuco) on percussion, Jovino Santos Neto on keyboards, Nenê on drums, Rosemarie Pitner on vocals and percussion, Itiberê Zwarg on bass and Nivaldo Ornelas on saxophone and flute, with Elis Regina listed for her own portion. The database lists the songs "Ilza", "Encrencado", "Suite Paulistana", "Frevo 7 por 4", "Forró Brasil", "Forró Novo", "Susto", "Rede" and "Asa Branca" among its entries. Portuguese Wikipedia says the group got a standing ovation and that some tracks were shortened for the vinyl. The label is Warner Brazil per Wikipedia and Atlantic per MusicBrainz, and a Progarchives snippet gives a different five-track list of about 34 minutes, so the edition is unresolved. Billboard Brasil wrote that Hermeto in action, live, was a strong argument in favor of the existence of God, and Tom Moon calls the album highly recommended. Our upload is titled Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1979) with no track name, so it is probably the whole set or a long excerpt.

More from Hermeto Pascoal

Slaves Mass (1977), Zabumbê-bum-á (1979), Cérebro Magnético (1980), Hermeto Solo - Por Diferentes Caminhos (1988), Eu E Eles (1999)

Sources

  1. Hermeto Pascoal, concert 574, Montreux Jazz Festival database
  2. Hermeto Pascoal, Wikipedia (Portuguese)
  3. Hermeto Pascoal: discos essenciais, Billboard Brasil