Results for "Airto Moreira"

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Airto Moreira

August 5, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Airto Moreira's birthday today! Airto Moreira made an immediate impact on the American jazz scene by being the first Brazilian percussionist to be playing a lot of different instruments at the same time. He brought them all together with an avant-garde, progressive sensibility, and revolutionized the role of percussion, both in ...

News: Music Industry

Miles on Monday: Memorial statue sculptor to speak at Lewis and Clark CC, and more

March 23, 2015

This week for “Miles on Monday," we have some recent news items involving the legendary trumpeter: Preston Jackson, the sculptor creating the statue for the Miles Davis Memorial Project that will be placed in downtown Alton, IL later this year, will give a presentation for Lewis and Clark Community College’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series at noon ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Emily Saunders: Outsiders Insiders

by Phil Barnes
March 4, 2015

Four years on from her debut Cotton Skies London's Emily Saunders has taken near complete control on this wonderful follow up and artistic leap forward. While she also produced her debut, this time Saunders wrote and arranged all nine tracks, not needing to augment them with covers from the likes of Airto Moreira as she did ...

Article: Rediscovery

Hermeto Pascoal: Slaves Mass

by John Kelman
February 10, 2015

Hermeto Pascoal Slaves MassWarner Bros.1977 It's not hard to see why the creator of today's Rediscovery, Hermeto Pascoal, was such a significant figure to everyone from Miles Davis and Gil Evans to Herbie Hancock and, of course, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, who co-produced Slaves Mass. Had the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist only ...

Album

Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

By Miles Davis

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD 1 (Fillmore East, June 17, 1970): Introduction; Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; Bitches Brew; The Theme; Paraphernalia (bonus track from Fillmore West, April 11, 1970); Footprints (bonus track from Fillmore West, April 11, 1970).

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CD 2 (Fillmore East, June 18, 1970): Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; Bitches Brew; The Theme; Spanish Key (encore); The Theme.

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CD 3 (Fillmore East, June 19, 1970): Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Sanctuary; Bitches Brew; The Theme; Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (bonus track from Fillmore West, April 11, 1970).

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CD 4 (Fillmore East, June 20, 1970): Directions; The Mask; It's About That Time; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Sanctuary; Bitches Brew; Willie Nelson; The Theme.

Article: Album Review

Harvey Wainapel: Amigos Brasileiros Vol 2

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 17, 2014

The beautiful, gentle musical spirit of the late Thiago de Mello--a most influential composer, instrumentalist, arranger and producer from the Amazon (and leader of the Brazilian large ensemble Amazon)--floats like a friendly ghost throughout Amigos Brasileiros Vol. 2. Harvey Wainapel boasts serious jazz chops, on clarinet and saxophone; and serious jazz credentials, including work ...

Article: From the Inside Out

What a Wonderful World (of Music)

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 10, 2014

Wil Blades Field Notes Royal Potato Family 2014 It's good to know that no matter how many things change around us, there's still nothing that kicks out the jams like a good old school B-3 organ, guitar and drum trio. Wil Blades provides an excellent case study ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Hamburg '72

by John Kelman
November 26, 2014

With Sleeper: Tokyo, April 16, 1979 (2012) and Magico: Carta de Amor (2012), ECM Records began digging into its archives, unearthing two live recordings that revealed even more about a collection of artists whose reputations were already plenty secure as some of the label's most important from its early years--in the first case, pianist Keith Jarrett's ...

Article: Album Review

Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield: Solitary Moon

by Jack Bowers
September 22, 2014

The unabridged subtitle of this endlessly charming album is “Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield Sing the Johnny Mandel Songbook." For those who were unaware that there is a Johnny Mandel Songbook apart from “Emily," “The Shadow of Your Smile" and “Close Enough for Love," this scintillating summary is a guaranteed eye-(and ear-) opener, lovingly packaged and ...

Article: Album Review

Ginger Berglund and Scott Whitfield: Solitary Moon

by Nicholas F. Mondello
September 4, 2014

The canon gifted us by composer Johnny Mandel, whether film scores, television themes or individual compositions, is bathed in distinctive melodic beauty. And, both memorable and lesser-known Mandel selections offer lyrics from some of the greatest wordsmiths of our time--Johnny Mercer, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Dave Frishberg, and others. Thus the material presented in Solitary Moon ...