Jazz Articles

Azymuth: The Best of Azymuth

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1997

It’s unusual that a band who has recorded more than sixteen albums as a unit and as soloists are still relatively unknown outside their home country, but this may be true of Azymuth.

The band consists of keyboarder and arranger Jose Roberto Betrami, drummer Ivan Conti and bassist Alex Malheiros. Betrami and Conti met whilst playing in two separate bands in a club in Rio one night in the late sixties and immediately formed a mutual respect and decided to ...

Herb Alpert: Second Wind

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 1997

Herb Alpert has been around for ever or so it seems. When I think back to the times when I was growing up listening to the ' Spanish Flea ' and ' El Presidente ' with the Tijuana Brass in 1964 , Herb's music has moved with the times like a vintage wine maturing with age and now boasts thirty-three albums recorded over four decades. The seventies brought us the number one selling single and album ...