Antonio Adolfo - Viralata

Year : 2017/1979

Label : Far Out Recordings/Artezanal

Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz

Style : Jazz Funk, Fusion, Samba

Essential album and timeless jazz funk classic from the Brazil '70 by the versatile pianist and arranger featuring bassist from Banda Black Rio, Jamil Joanes, Serginho Trombone and sound engineer Toninho Barbosa. "Viralata" is a pure fusion album including african rhythms and Adolfo's musical influences as well as jazz, marchinhas de carnavalbaião, Brazilian Nordeste music, MPB and funk. Antonio Adolfo started in classical music before embarking on the decisive musical turning point of the early 1960s in Brazil, the Bossa Nova, playing alongside its greatest actors in Jazz shows and tours among Leny Andrade, Carlos Lyra, Flora Purim, Wilson Simonal, Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento. In the seventies, he moved to US and recorded with  international renowned artists such as Sergio Mendes, Stevie Wonder, Herb Alpert, Earl Klugh, Dionne Warwick and many others.

Marcos Resende & Index

 

Year : 2021

Label : Far Out Recordings

Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz

Style : Jazz Funk, Samba, Smooth Jazz

Recorded in 1976, "Marcos Resende & Index" should have been the first official album of the group, long before "Festa Para Um Novo Rei" released in 1978. However, it will remain unreleased for over 40 years before Far Out Recordings convinced Marcos to come it out from the darkness. Innovative musician using as well Fender Rhodes as various synthesizers like the Minimoog, mixing Jazz, Electronic music with Samba, he was a pianist session in demand in Brazil, collaborating to recordings of the legends Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo or Gal Costa. In the early seventies, he formed the electronic progressive jazz group "Status", who opened shows for Stan Getz or Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. He recorded the album featuring Rubão Sabino (eb), Claudio Caribé (ds), the great saxophonist Oberdan Magalhães from Banda Black Rio and the legendary Toninho Barbosa, sound engineer on "Light As A Feather" by Azymuth, "Previsão Do Tempo" by Marcos Valle and "Quem É Quem" by João Donato.

Azymuth - Azimüth

Year : 2015/1975
Label : Far Out Recordings/Som Livre
Genre : Jazz, Latin
Style : MPB, Jazz Funk, Samba, Latin Jazz

One of the best brazilian jazz group whose the name "Azymuth" was inspired by a song from Marcos & Paulo Sérgio Valle, a jazz-funk trio formed in 1973 by Jose Roberto Bertrami (keys), Alex Malheiros (eb, eg) and Ivan Conti (ds, per). The group started as "Conjunto Azimuth" on the soundtrack of brazilian movie "O Fabuloso Fittipaldi" alongside Marcos & Paulo Sergio Valle, and the same year, as backing band for Marcos on his "Previsão Do Tempo" album. The group engaged in the post-tropicalia era with their self-titled debut album in 1975, mixing samba funk & disco beats, influencing in the same time, the nascent Black Rio movement. Always actives today, the band has gained an international audience with "Águia Não Come Mosca" album (released on Atlantic, first record of the band released outside Brazil), a noticeable appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival '77 and by participating to the U.S. tour of Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. Then, they moved to the United States in the early eighties, by signing on Milestone Records in 1979. Titles include their pop hit "Linha Do Horizonte", the songs "Manhã" (remixed by Peanut Butter Wolf in 2007), "Esperando Minha Vez" (sampled by Joey Bada$$ in "Amethyst Rockstar" - 2013) and the killer soul jazz/rock track "Periscópio".