Grupo Vice Versa

Grupo Vice Versa was a studio band assembled for two days of sessions to record Hermeto Pascoal's Viajando Com o Som in 1976. Taking their name from Rogério Duprat's Vice Versa Studios in São Paulo, this all-star studio assemblage included multi-instrumentalist Pascoal's rhythm section of the era -- Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums), Zeca Assumpção (bass), and Lelo Nazario (electric piano) -- saxophonists Mauro Senise, Raul Mascarenhas, and Nivaldo Ornelas, guitarist Toninho Horta, and vocalist Aleuda Chaves. After assembling for a one-off gig at Teatro Bandeirantes that became an al...