10/01/2020

Airto Moreira "I'm Fine. How Are You?" (1977) -Jazz Fusion / Latin Jazz-



Label : Warner Bros. Records


Brésil Side 1

01 - I'm Fine. How Are You? (Airto Moreira)
02 - Meni Devol (Ruben Rada & Hugo Fattoruso)
03 - La Tumbadora (Ruben Rada & Hugo Fattoruso)
04 - The Happy People (Airto Moreira)

Side 2 

01 - The Road Is Hard (But We're Going To Make It) (Flora Purim)
02 - La Cumbia De Anders (Ruben Rada & Hugo Fattoruso)
03 - Celebration Suite (Airto Moreira)
04 - Nativity (Airto Moreira, Jaco Pastorius & Kerry McNabb)


Produced by Flora Purim / Airto Moreira for Zara Productions
Co-Produced by Kerry McNabb
All Arrangements by Hugo Fattoruso except "The Happy People", "Celebration Suite" & "I'm Fine. How Are You?" Arranged by Hugo Fattoruso & Airto Moreira, And "The Road Is Hard (But We're Going To Make It)" Arranged by Hugo Fattoruso & Flora Purim
Recorded at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, July/August 1977
Mastered at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, August 1977
Engineered by Kerry McNabb

Percussion : Airto Moreira on All Selections ; Laudir De Oliveira on "The Happy People" & "Celebration Suite" ; Manolo Badrena on "La Tumbadora"
Keyboards : Hugo Fattoruso
Bass : Byron Miller on All Selections except "The Road Is Hard (But We're Going To Make It)" ; Abraham Laboriel on "The Road Is Hard (But We're Going To Make It) ; Jaco Pastorius on "Nativity"
Guitars : Charles 'Icarus' Johnson ; Oscar Castro Neves on "Celebration Suite" & "The Happy People"
Sax & Flute : Tom Scott on "I'm Fine. How Are You?" & "The Road Is Hard (But We're Going To Make It)"
Trombone : Raul de Souza on "The Happy People" & "Celebration Suite"
Featured Singers : Ruben Rada on "Meni Devol" & "La Tumbadora" ; Flora Purim on "The Road Is Hard (But We're Going To Make It)"
Background Singers on "Celebration Suite" & "The Happy People" : Flora, Airto, Aluizio, Shirley, Diana, Ciruela, Maria, Hugo, Sybil