

WikipediaĪirto Moreíra was born in 1941 in the small village of Itaipolis, Brasil.

En 1962 creó el Sambalanço Trio, juntamente con César Camargo Mariano y Humberto Cláiber, entre 1966 y 1969 integró el Quarteto Novo con Teo de Barros, Heraldo do Monte y Hermeto Pascoal, y a fináles de los años 60 se trasladó a Estados Unidos con su esposa, la cantante de jazz Flora Purim. En este disco toca junto a Ron Carter, Flora Purim y Hermeto Pascoal, entre otros.Īirto Moreira (Airto Guimorvan Moreira) es un baterista, percusionista y compositor brasileño.Īprendió canto, piano, violín, mandolina y teoría musical en Ponta Grossa, y en 1956, se trasladó a Curitiba. También tocó con los supergrupos Opa, Weather Report, Quarteto Novo y Return to Forever. El tipo tocó con Miles Davis, Eumir Deodato, Al Di Meola, Dizzy Gillespie, Milton Nascimento, Hermeto Pascoal, Jaco Pastorius, Santana, entre otros. Wide array of instruments, and percussive coloration became common in jazz and fusion.A este brasilero lo nombramos muchas veces cuando ha colaborado con músicos que han grabado álbums que hemos presentado en este espacio, ahora le toca el turno a él. Afterwards, many bands added a percussionist with a Airto revolutionized the role of the percussionist with his performances with Miles Davis, Weather Report, Return to Forever, his wife Flora Purim, and other artists, and on his own solo albums. Moments he seems to go into a trance and tap into spiritual energies. In concert, Moreira creates an atmosphere of surprise and discovery at times he has an edge of wildness and at other He broke new ground by mixing them with an avant-garde sensibility, great improvisational skills, and a charismatic showmanship. Rather than specialize in a particular type of percussion. He was one of the first percussionists, in Brazil or outside it, to play many different instruments in performances, 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.
