Airto

Samba de Flora Airto Limited edition

Soul Jazz Records are re-releasing Airto Moreira's classic album 'Samba de Flora', out of print for 30 years ever since its original release in 1988.

The album was originally released on the small independent Montuno Record label (which was run out of the unassuming Record Mart record store situated in the Times Square underground subway station!) and has been unavailable for many, many years.

The impact of Airto Moreira in both the world of American jazz and in Brazilian music is unparalleled. At the start of the 1970s Airto was invited to join Miles Davis'

groundbreaking 'electric' group, which with albums such as the seminal 'Bitches Brew' helping Davis regain his title from John Coltrane as the most important jazz artist of all time .

Two years later Airto helped establish two of the most important jazz fusion groups of all time: Weather Report, with Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul and Miroslav Vituous; and Return to Forever, with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Flora Purim.