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![Listen to Ozone (Part. 2) [feat. Jahn Ammer, Jeff Berlin, Airto Moreira & Dominic Miller] by Billy Cobham, see lyrics, music video & more!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music124/v4/50/ce/0d/50ce0d45-dbd9-cbc0-f79c-8a3f505cd13c/dj.clqysttt.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Listen to Ozone (Part. 2) [feat. Jahn Ammer, Jeff Berlin, Airto Moreira & Dominic Miller] by Billy Cobham, see lyrics, music video & more!")
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About Airto Moreira
Hometown
Itaiópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Born
August 5, 1941
Genre
Jazz
An inventive master percussionist and drummer, Brazil's Airto Moreira (aka Airto) emerged in the early '60s playing samba, bossa and Brazilian jazz. Moreira emigrated to the U.S. and issued influential solo albums albums including 1972's landmark Free, combining Brazilian traditions with modal jazz, funk, and fusion. After apprenticing with Cannonball Adderley, he joined Miles Davis group playing on landmark albums such as Bitches Brew, Live Evil, and On the Corner. He was a founding member of Return to Forever, played with fusion supergroup Weather Report, and has recorded with countless others, amassing nearly 1,300 credits. Since the early 1970s, he's recorded dozens of albums alongside his spouse, the iconic Brazilian vocalist Flora Purim, including 1973's Fingers, 2001's Perpetual Emotion, and 2017's Aluê. In 2023, BBE issued the multi-disc career retrospective Airto & Flora, A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories.
Airto Moreira has also released music as a member of Sambalanco Trio, Quarteto Novo, Rhythm Devils, Weather Report, Fourth World, and Return to Forever.
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