Heraldo Do Monte - O Violão De Heraldo Do Monte (2011)

Herald started in music playing clarinet in high school. The clarinet was the only instrument available and with it Heraldo struggled for a week without being able to get any sound out. Until his teacher, slightly annoyed, wielded the instrument to show him how to play and realized that something was wrong. A colleague, playing a prank, had stuffed a flannel into the clarinet pipe.

Herald pursued his studies on the instrument and soon felt the need for a harmonic instrument. Using the methods for clarinet he taught himself to play the guitar, intuiting the chords.

He also learned to play cavaquinho and viola caipira and bought a guitar to start making a living playing in the nightclubs of Recife. Shortly after he left for São Paulo where he was employed at TV Tupi accompanying the musicians who performed on the station. In 1966 he joined the then Trio Novo, which became a new quartet. In this quartet played other brilliant musicians. Heraldo played guitar; Théo de Barros, double bass; Hermeto Pascoal, piano and flute; Airto Moreira, drums and percussion. With jazzy elements in a strongly Brazilian sound (mainly northeastern) introduced innovative elements in instrumental music made at the time.

The quartet was responsible for the arrangements and presentation of the songs Ponteio (Edu Lobo) and Disparada (partnership of Geraldo Vandré and Théo de Barros) at Record festivals. At the invitation of Edu Lobo, the quartet leaves for Europe for its first international tour. With the departure of Airto Moreira to the USA the quartet still remained for a short time with drummer Nenê.

He recorded three albums in the three years following the quartet's demise, 1970 to 1972. Also in the same decade he recorded the album O Violão De Heraldo do Monte. He would only return to record almost ten years later with Elomar, Paulo Moura and Arthur Moreira Lima the album ConSertão. In the eighties he also recorded the albums: Heraldo do Monte, Cordas Mágicas, Cordas Vivas and, after another decade, he recorded the CD Viola Nordestina (in 2004). With musical direction and production by his son. guitarist Luis do Monte, recorded the CD Guitarra Brasileira, with unpublished themes and composed exclusively for the project, Heraldo creates a mosaic with Brazilian styles separated by their respective regions. Heraldo do Monte was once considered by Joe Pass the best guitarist in the world. He recorded alongside Elis Regina, Quinteto Violado, Michel Legrand, Zimbo Trio, Hermeto Pascoal and others, as well as performing at major music festivals around the world, such as in Montreux, Montreal and Cuba.