Results for "Airto Moreira"

Airto Moreira

Born: August 5, 1941

Airto Moreira made an immediate impact on the Americanjazz scene by being the first Brazilian percussionist to beplaying a lot of different instruments at the same time. Hebrought them all together with an avant-garde, progressivesensibility, and revolutionized the role of percussion, both injazz and popular music. After him it was a wave, and he wasat the forefront with his work with Miles, Weather Report,and Return to Forever.

Airto Moreira was born in 1941 in the small village ofItaiopolis - south Brasil, and was raised in Curitiba. Evenbefore he could walk he would start shaking and banging onthe floor every time the radio played a hot song. By the timehe was six years old he had won many music contests bysinging and playing percussion. The city gave him his ownradio program every Saturday afternoon. At thirteen hebecame a professional musician, playing percussion,drums, and singing in local dance bands. He moved to SaoPaulo at the age of sixteen and performed regularly innightclubs and television as a percussionist, drummer andsinger.

Aqui, Oh!

By Ricardo Bacelar

Label: Jasmin Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Aqui, Oh!

Mestre Novo da Guiné

By Airto Moreira

Label: Jasmin Music
Released: 2026

Maracanós

By Airto Moreira

Label: Jasmin Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. Pé No Chão; 2. Mestre Novo Da Guiné; 3. Bumbo Meu Boi; 4. Voo Da Tarde; 5. Maracanós; 6. Submersivos; 7. 3 Minutos De Paz; 8. Pau Rolou

Jamey Haddad Quartet Featuring Helio Alves

by Daniel Peck
September 11, 2026

Jamey Haddad holds a singular position in the world of jazz and contemporary music. Haddad's musical voice transcends styles and trends, and the universal quality of his playing has attracted many international collaborations with artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Paul Simon, and Sting. Born of Lebanese descent, he is regarded as one of the foremost world music ...

Kelan Phil Cohran, Airto Moreira, Nicholas Payton & Butcher Brown, Plus Others

by Lawrence Peryer
August 21, 2026

Episode 19 is about the many ways of turning old material into new work: Kelan Phil Cohran's 1993 planetarium session resurfacing as a proper vinyl reissue, Concepción Huerta printing electricity onto magnetic tape, Wild Gods treating archival Gaelic lament as material to be worked rather than heritage to be preserved. It closes on two records built ...

Chick Corea: Sometime Ago

by Mike Jurkovic
July 30, 2026

Everyone listening to Sometime Ago, a previously unheard deep dive into solo Chick Corea, is hereby pardoned and excused if at first Sometime Ago is mistaken for a previously unreleased (or unremembered) Keith Jarrett concert. Jarrett had just recently ventured into solo territory at the Stadthalle in Heidelberg, Germany in June of 1972. So the vibe ...

Neves e Silva: Ladeiras de Santa Teresa

by Katchie Cartwright
July 6, 2026

Ladeiras de Santa Teresa opens with a big polymetric beat and powerful brass and percussion up front. You might flash on the Afro-Bahian sound of Letieres Leite's Orkestra Rumpilezz. The groove shifts suddenly, releasing into a jazz feel; Brazilian jazz that is, not swing or bebop, though Charlie Parker's “Star Eyes" with intro serves as a ...

Iconic Music in Film: Boomer Edition

by Alan Bryson
July 1, 2026

One of the pleasures of looking back at film music from the boomer years is realizing how quickly the walls were coming down. Classical themes turned into jazz-funk hits. Soul records won Oscars. Rock songs became character development. Bluegrass, blues, disco, Latin jazz, and spaghetti-western minimalism all found their way onto the screen, and in the ...

Miles Davis At 100: A Global Perspective

by Ian Patterson
May 26, 2026

Miles Davis' centenary has arrived. The second century begins. What changes jazz has undergone in the 100 years since Miles Dewey Davis was born in Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926! Davis was all about change, evolution, growth, and reinvention.  A driving force behind many of the changes in direction jazz took during his ...