Hermeto Pascoal

Pascoal said he had composed thousands of pieces. "I am 100 percent intuitive," he once told NPR. Miles Davis called him one of the most important musicians in the world.

Brazilian jazz-fusion icon Flora Purim released her latest, "If You Will" on May 6. The Spanish Harlem Orchestra's "Imágenes Latinas" drops on May 20, and so does the re-issue of Brazilian musical wizard Hermeto Pascoal's 1970 debut as a bandleader.