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José Roberto Bertrami was most widely known as the keyboardist using the group Azymuth, but he also carved away a substantial profession like a sideman and single artist from the music group. Born Feb 21, 1946, in the Tatui area of São Paulo, Brazil, he was classically qualified but gravitated …

A skilled and effective composer, arranger, and orchestrator, Lindolfo Gaia started as a specialist in 1942 at Rádio Transmissora (Rio de Janeiro). Later on, he worked well at Rádio Tupi and with the Orquestra perform Chiquinho, on Rádio Clube, and had written preparations and orchestrations for over 15 years for …

One of many Brazilian arrangers, having renovated the country’s harmonic vocabulary within the ’50s, the underrated Moacir Santos had nevertheless an extremely influential role seeing that he had seeing that his pupils, within the ’60s: Paulo Moura, Oscar Castro-Neves, Baden Powell, Maurício Einhorn, Geraldo Vespar, Bola Sete, Sérgio Mendes, Dom …