The Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer, once described by Miles Davis as "the world's most impressive musician", was recorded in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last
October with his own group and his British big band, including saxophonists Peter King , Chris Biscoe and Julian Arguelles , trumpeters Guy Barker ,
Henry Lowther and Claude Deppa , trombonists Pete Beachill and Richard
Edwards, and the Mondesir brothers (bass and drums). The concert is introduced by Alyn Shipton , who talks to Guy Barker during the interval about life on the road with Hermeto Pascoal.
Producer Derek Drescher