Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie

Photo credit: Valter Pontes Listen to this week's show Caminhos do Jazz celebrates the life and work of the great  Hermeto Pascoal this week-- "O Bruxo,"  wizard of Universal Music, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist who Miles Davis named as "one of the most important musicians on the planet" (1936-2025). We'll hear a few of his 2,000+ compositions, cuts drawn from his first commercial recording ( Em Som Maior , Som Maior, 1965) to his last ( Pra Você Ilza , Rocinante, 2024). Sending profound condolences to his loved ones. 💓   As a teaser, here are two clips, both live takes. The first, from 1976, features Pascoal on flute, with Flora Purim and Airto Moreira , performing  his "Andei" (I Walked)  for a television broadcast.  The second, recorded in Brazil in 1988, features Pascoal on keyboards with Carlos Malta on saxophone, Jovino Santos Neto  at the piano, Itiberê Zwarg on bass, Marcio Bahia at the drums and Fabio Pascoal, Hermeto...

Listen to this week's show Dreams and nightmares this week on Caminhos do Jazz. Performers include Maria Bethânia , Gal Costa , Nação Zumbi , Music for a While , Jorge Continentino , Lionel Loueke , Alaide Costa , Ben Webster  and  Bill Charlap . We'll hear Kurt Elling 's breathtaking rendition of Paul Simon 's " American Tune ." The set ends with its seed, Charlap's elegantly simple take on Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim 's " Somewhere ." Time permitting, we'll follow that up with a short take from Dave Brubeck Quartet with Peter, Paul and Mary . Até lá, see you there.    As a bonus, here's Rhiannon Giddens sitting in with Simon, offering her aptly altered lyric. And, below it, a poignant pandemic video of an adaptation entitled "Because We All Are Brothers," with a lyric by Tom Glazer and Pete Seeger . The tune, a hymn, goes back to the Middle Ages, and there are many other versions, including  J.S. Bach's ...