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.