NanĂ¡ Vasconcelos
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Audiopile Review: The Codona trio was one of the great ECM Records supergroups. Comparable to Ralph Towner’s Solstice ensemble, John Abercrombie’s Gateway group, or Towner’s duo with Abercrombie, even. But as pioneers of ethno-jazz fusion and ‘world music’ more generally, Codona was truly pioneering. Solo, NanĂ¡ Vasconcelos and Collin Walcott...
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Spiritual, intimate and revolutionary, yet firmly rooted in Brazil's folklore. Africadeus was the breakthrough album of the mighty NanĂ¡ Vasconcelos, in which he discovered the berimbau to the world and took the instrument to a universal level. Having played in the shadows for other artists such as Milton Nascimento, Gato...
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Brazilian percussionist NanĂ¡ Vasconcelos’s Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This ‘concerto’ for an innovative player of a traditional instrument was made possible with the creative input...
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Double LP version. In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936-1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943-2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki's aphorism "the stage is home and...
