Airto Moreira via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Airto Moreira
- City: Santa Barbara, California
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Itaiópolis, Santa Catarina
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Airto Moreira has made his home in the United States for decades, but Brazil has never left his hands. His first recording was the iconic Quarteto Novo, in a group including Hermeto Pascoal.
In the U.S. Airto met Joe Zawinul, who introduced him to Miles Davis, with whom Airto would play and record with over the next couple of years.
From Miles, Airto moved onto Weather Report with Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Miroslav Vitous, going on from there to join Chick Corea's Return to Forever as drummer, recording on the albums Return to Forever and Light as a Feather.
Airto has played and recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Lee Morgan, Paul Desmond, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Al Di Meola, Zakir Hussain, and George Duke, among others.
He's composed for film and television, including for the scores for Apocalypse Now and Last Tango in Paris, and he played at the re-opening of the Library of Alexandria, Egypt.
Airto lectured for three years at UCLA.
He's married to singer Flora Purim.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Management/Publishing Administrator
A-Train Management:
E-mail: alevers@a-train.com
Phone: +1 510 893-4705
Fax: 510 893-4807
Production, Recordings and Public Relations
Airflow Productions, Inc.
12400 Ventura Blvd # 179
Studio City, CA 91604 USA
Phone: +1 818 506-8030
Fax: +1 818 506-8026
E-mail: airflow@silcom.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: airto_flora
- ▶ Website: http://www.airto.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AirflowP
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCpzAQ9SBUSfOfBM0dRsciog
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
