BRAZILIAN LEGEND MILTON NASCIMENTO, STILL DREAMING IN HARMONY

Mat Snow

ACULT HERO in the Anglophone world but a giant in Brazil, at 81 Milton Nascimento is just four months younger than one of his inspirations Paul Mc-Cartney – Abbey Road is a particular favourite, he tells MOJO. Debuting on 33rpm in 1967, his own catalogue is similarly classic-packed. His delightful new album Milton + esperanza, with the now officially lower-case esperanza spalding, not only boasts a sensational version of A Day In The Life, but such stellar guests as Paul Simon, Dianne Reeves, Lianne La Havas and Shabaka Hutchings. From early on Nascimento has attracted jazz and jazz-adjacent A-listers; as myriad stars have found, to hear him is to love him. The respect and affection is mutual. “In my childhood head, only women sang.”MILTON NASCIMENTO “Some of the biggest dreams…

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