Erasto Vasconcelos

Brazilian composer, percussionist, singer and arranger born in Pernambuco. Died in the city of Olinda, state of Pernambuco, Brazil, on October 27, 2016, aged 69. Younger brother of Naná Vasconcelos. Recorded with Marcio Montarroyos, Stone Alliance, Jon Hassell, Ronald Shannon Jackson. Also played with Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Stan Getz and Thiago de Mello during the period he lived in NYC from 1978 to 1980. In Brazil, worked with Geraldo Azevedo, Gilberto Gil, Fabio Tummer and many others.