Results for "Airto Moreira"

Zakir Hussain: The Best Jazz / Crossover Albums

by Ian Patterson
March 4, 2021

Zakir Hussain turned 70 on March 9th. In an unparalleled career, which began in earnest aged 7, the man widely acclaimed as the world's greatest tabla player has played with the giants of both Indian classical music and jazz. It is hard to think of another musician who has straddled both worlds to such a prominent ...

Resurrection! Legendary Percussionist Airto Moreira & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

February 17, 2021

Two powerful forces in the world of jazz come together in Resurrection! Airto Moreira and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Airto Moreira is a world-renowned jazz drummer and percussionist from Brazil, who exhibited great talent at a young age. In his twenties he traveled to the U.S.A. in pursuit of Flora Purim, the woman with whom ...

Chick Corea: The Passing Of A Giant

by Doug Hall
February 15, 2021

The passing of a giant in all categories of jazz. Chick Corea, NEA Jazz Master, 22-time Grammy Award winner, keyboard virtuoso as pianist, composer and arranger has earned, by contribution and breadth of musicianship, all the accolades, awards and recognition. If ever the title applied: a legendary figure in jazz. Beyond Corea's range of solo compositions ...

My Conversation with Chick Corea

by AAJ Staff
February 12, 2021

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in August 1999. It would be silly for me to even attempt to pontificate on the ramifications Chick Corea has had on this music. But it should be universal that his impact has been substantial at worst. So I will let him ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Airto Moreira

August 5, 2020

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 ...

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.

Chick Corea: Trilogy 2

by Mike Jurkovic
November 27, 2019

In his restless and adventurous sixty year career, Chick Corea has presented his music in a myriad of assemblages, from sideman to leader, solo, duo, quartet, quintet, fusion, traditional, classical, flamenco, world music, etc. And bless him for it. But if truth be told, perhaps the time tested piano trio is the truest representation of his ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Airto Moreira

August 5, 2019

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 ...

Take Five With Mauricio de Souza

by AAJ Staff
April 24, 2019

Meet Mauricio de Souza Born in Brasília, Brazil, Maurício de Souza is a jazz drummer who easily performs in traditional jazz and Brazilian jazz styles. De Souza was a pupil of world renowned jazz drummer Joe Morello.Coming from a musical family, de Souza began playing drums at age eleven. His early interest in complex ...

CTI on BGO, Part 2

by Jakob Baekgaard
April 3, 2019

2018 proved to be a very good year for reissues of CTI-albums on the British label, BGO. They stepped up with an abundance of albums from the likes of guitarist Jim Hall, saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and flautist Hubert Laws (you can read about them here). So far, 2019 also looks promising and kicks off with releases ...