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Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri, and Milton ...
Comin' and Goin' is the second album led by Native American saxophonist and composer Jim Pepper recorded in 1983 and first released on the French Europa label. The album was reissued on Antilles in 1987.
- 44:14
- 1983
- May 12, June 22 & 23 and August 17, 1983, Eurosound Studios and Quadrosonic Studios, New York City
- Crossover Jazz/Native American music
Naná Vasconcelos ha vinto, per otto anni consecutivi (1983-1990), il premio come miglior percussionista dell'anno dalla prestigiosa rivista DownBeat . Con un forte legame con la cultura popolare, negli ultimi 15 anni della sua vita, Naná ha aperto il Carnevale di Recife, accompagnato dalla processione delle nazioni maracatu.
"Naná Vasconcelos nos ensinou a ouvir o Brasil. Nos trouxe de volta um país profundo, refugiado em nossas memórias de infância. Toda a sua obra como artista está impregnada de referências que são parte essencial do nosso modo de ser e de sentir. Sua música é a música da voz, do corpo e dos inúmeros instrumentos que dominou com tanta perfeição." : ” : — Juca Ferreira, ministro ...
Percussionist Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (Recife, Brazil 1944 – 2016), specialized in the berimbau throughout his musical life and appeared on ECM between the 70s and 90s as a prolific sideman with celebrated jazz greats like Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek and Ralph Towner. His influential work with the Codona trio ...
Collaborò a progetti musicali con Don Cherry, Naná Vasconcelos, Collin Walcott, Kenny Werner, John Scofield, Ed Schuller, Hamid Drake e altri. Il suo album Comin' and Goin' del 1983 fu la dimostrazione definitiva del jazz dello stile unico di Pepper. Il disco contiene nove pezzi suonati da nove formazioni diverse.
11 mar 2016 · Naná Vasconcelos, the acclaimed percussionist and master of the single-string berimbau, died March 9 from lung cancer in Recife, Brazil, the city where he was born. He was 71. Among his accolades were numerous wins in the two DownBeat polls.
