Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades
Daniel B. Sharp, "Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades "
English | ISBN: 1501345710 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501345710 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Arto Lindsay, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Os Mutantes, and Milton Nascimento.
This book traces the 15 years (1964-1979) leading up to Naná's
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