Airto Moreira News

Hamsa Lila World music band Hamsa Lila will be returning to the San Francisco Bay area after a three year hiatus to headline a gala event benefiting Common Vision and featuring the legendary Brazilian drum master Airto Moreira .

Half a decade ago, a nightclub opened that would change British music for ever. John Fordham talks about Ronnie Scott's with some of the jazz legends who played there over the years 'The best jazz club in the world' a Ronnie Scott's jazz club in Soho, London.

GLOBALVORE JAZZ: Santa Barbara and her neighboring environs may not be a super-fertile ground for sending impactful jazz musicians out into the scene-at-large, but there are notable cases.

GLOBALVORE JAZZ: Santa Barbara and her neighboring environs may not be a super-fertile ground for sending impactful jazz musicians out into the scene-at-large, but there are notable cases.

GLOBALVORE JAZZ: Santa Barbara and her neighboring environs may not be a super-fertile ground for sending impactful jazz musicians out into the scene-at-large, but there are notable cases.

All About Jazz is celebrating Airto Moreira's birthday today! Airto Moreira 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.

One of my fave mags because it consistently introduces me to a fountain of new music that I wouldn't otherwise find unless I spent my free hours diggin' in the crates and hanging out with vinyl heads, Wax Poetics' current issue themed under Brazil is a treasure trove of interviews with some of the greatest legends of tropicalia and jazz, plus ...

The CTI All Star Band , featuring Hubert Laws on flute, Bill Evans on saxophone, Russell Malone on guitar, Niels Lan Doky on piano, Mark Egan on bass, Airto Moreira on percussion and Bill W. Ketzer on drums, are playing two live gigs this week at the A stanbul Jazz Center.

A Charles Mingus LP gets cozy with a Verdi Imperial Stout. On porches everywhere this summer, people are soaking up the sticky heat with beer in hand and music in the background.