Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Though 86-year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal performs regularly in his home country of Brazil, a North American tour is a rare occurrence. Last week NYC audiences had two ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hermeto Pascoal, an eccentric and prolific Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger known affectionately as “The Sorcerer of Sounds” and “The Mad Genius,” has died.

Pascoal had met Miles Davis who immediately recognized his talent and asked him to contribute music to the album Live-Evil In the past few months I've been quite busy writing program notes and preview ...

The prolific Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal has died. Nicknamed "the Sorcerer," Pascoal resembled a wizard from a storybook — both in his personal style, and his ability to create magical sounds ...

Hermeto Pascoal in 1989: nicknamed ‘The Wizard’, he was admired by Miles Davis - Frans Schellekens ​Hermeto Pascoal, who has died aged 89, was an eccentric, versatile and prolific ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hermeto Pascoal, an eccentric and prolific Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger known affectionately as “The Sorcerer of Sounds” and “The Mad Genius,” has died. He ...