The SF Jazz Festival presents

Saturday, November 7, 8 pm at the Nob Hill Masonic

Center, 1111 California Street in San Francisco. 

Tickets range from $25 to $75.  For more information

and tickets, visit www.sfjazz.org

Milton Nascimento’s many collaborations with Herbie Hancock, dating back to the 1969 CTI album Courage, have made an indelible mark on the history of both jazz and Brazilian music. And one listen to Wayne Shorter’s landmark Native Dancer (1975) reminds us why Nascimento occupies a very special place among world-jazz icons. An international array of artists has covered his songs, but with a gorgeous multi-octave voice and sumptuous melodic imagination the Brazilian superstar is the most effective interpreter of his own music.

For this performance, Nascimento focuses on the bossa nova standards that provided him with early inspiration, songs he explores on his 2008 album, Novas Bossas. As on the CD, he’s accompanied by the superlative Jobim Trio (actually a quartet) featuring guitarist Paulo and pianist Daniel Jobim (son and grandson, respectively, of the late, seminal bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim), bassist Rodrigo Villa and master drummer Paulo Braga, a confederate of Nascimento’s since their teenage days in Minas Gerais. It’s a rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s most beloved and influential musicians delve into the songs that shaped him.

Co-sponsored by KPFA