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Jadir de Castro

Brazilian drummer, percussionist and composer. He mixed standard drumming with Afro-Brazilian percussion. Jadir de Castro lived in Europe for many years during the 1950s, and appears as an actor and musician on the French movie "And God Created Woman," starring Brigitte Bardot.

He released several albums as a leader for RCA, Sideral, Barclay and other lanbels, and also worked extensively with Nora Ney, Dom Um Romão and Ithamara Koorax. His final solo album was produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro and engineered by Toninho Barbosa, featuring Azymuth's founder José Roberto Bertrami on keyboards, Jorge Pescara on bass, Dom Um Romão and Marcelo Salazar on additional percussion.
Born March 26, 1927 in Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
died July 14, 2015 in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ithamara Koorax: Brazilian Butterfly

Read "Brazilian Butterfly" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 12, 2007

Except for two ballads--the cosmopolitan “Carinhoso with her Brazilian jazz fusion compatriots Azymuth, and Herbie Hancock's title track--Ithamara Koorax's ninth album is her most adventurous release. It seems constructed to honor legendary Brazilian vocalist Flora Purim and her husband/bandleader/percussionist Airto. This Brazilian Butterfly soars and flutters while multiple percussionists (often as many as four on the same song, most often led by the late and legendary Dom Um Romão, with Koorax frequently flailing away among them) knit together, pull apart, ...