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Airto Guimorvan Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim , and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. [2] Coming to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of the Brazilian ensemble Quarteto Novo , he moved to the United States and worked in jazz ...
6 de sept. de 2016 · by Chris McGowan. Airto Moreira spearheaded the Brazilian "percussion invasion" of the late 1960s and '70s that infused global jazz and popular music with new rhythms, percussive textures, and tone colors.
Position: Percussion, Vocals. Year of Birth: 1941. Years with Miles: 1969-1971. Brazilian percussionist of legend and key member of Miles' 1970-1971 sextet; his use of guica remains one of the most distinctive features of Miles' recordings of this period. Standout Track. Playlist. Pop-up Player. Medley: Gemini / Double Image. 00:30.
22 de feb. de 2018 · Planet Drum topped Billboard’s World Music Chart for almost six months and won the first Grammy ever presented in the category of Best World Music Recording. In the same year Airto also won the Grammy for Best Live Jazz Recording for his collaboration with the late Dizzie Gillespie on the album United Nations Orchestra.
29 de ene. de 2024 · Flora Purim and Airto Moreira met in their native country of Brazil and were married shortly before they decamped to the United States, in the late 1960s. Purim, the child of classical musicians based in Rio de Janeiro, had recorded an album of bossa nova standards, her limber voice nailing the nuanced mix of sophisticated ennui, urbane melancholy and simmering tension of that genre.
4 de ene. de 2024 · 4th January 2024. Artist Anthologies 60 Years of Airto Moreira & Flora Purim. by Barney Whittaker. L to R: Airto Moreira, Flora Purim & Hermeto Pascoal (Image: Hulton Archive) No other couple have stamped their seal on the world of Brazilian jazz quite like the iconic pairing of husband and wife, Airto Moreira and Flora Purim.
Expectations, an Album by Keith Jarrett. Released in October 1972 on Columbia (catalog no. KG 31580; Vinyl LP). Genres: Jazz Fusion, Post-Bop. Rated #316 in the best albums of 1972.
