Brazilian group started out in the early 1970s as Grupo Seleção, a cover band. In 1973 they changed the band's name to Azymuth, inspired by a Marcos & Paulo Sérgio Valle song. (They also backed Marcos Valle on his Previsão Do Tempo album released in 1973.) In 1975 they released their first album, initially titled Azimüth. It featured the hit Linha Do Horizonte. In 1976 they scored another minor hit with Melô Da Cuíca ; Jazz Carnival, taken from the 1979 album Light As A Feather, was another hit, and 1980's Dear Limmertz also became a popular staple. The trio moved to the United States in the early 1980s, producing a number of albums that never came out in Brazil, and placing their bets on a mix of samba, funk and jazz that they defined as MPB-jazz (referring to Música Popular Brasileira). The main composer, keyboardist J. R. Bertrami, left the group in 1988, and was replaced by Jota Moraes and Marinho Boffa, but returned in the middle of the following decade, when the group signed with the label Far Out. After Bertrami died in 2012 keyboardist Kiko Continentino joined drummer Ivan "Mamão" Conti and bassist Alex Malheiros to continue the band.

Azimüth – #Azimüth

Label: #Polydor – PROT 7028

Format: Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, #RecordStoreDay, Reissue

Country: Japan

Released: Apr 21, 2018

Genre: Jazz, #Latin, Funk

Style: #Samba, #JazzFunk, #MPB

A1 Zombie

A2 Melô Da Cuíca

B1 Que é Que Você Vai Fazer Nesse Carnaval

B2 Tempos Atrás

Bass [Vox / Rickenbacker], Pedalboard [Mutron Phase / Bad Stone], Effects, Vocals – #AlexandreMalheiros

Cuica – #NenémDaCuica

Drums, Apito, Vocals – #IvanMiguelConti (#Mamão)

Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes 88], Synthesizer [Arp 2.600 / Arp Odissey / Arp Strings], Clavinet, Organ [Hammond M. 102], Vocals – #JoséRobertoBertrami

Pandeiro – #AlbertoTesta

Percussion – #HermesContesini

Percussion, Percussion [Triguilhas], Vocals – #AriovaldoContesini

Surdo – #BáodaMocidade (tracks: B1)

Vocals – #GastãoLamounier, #TonyBizarro

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José Roberto Bertrami, Alex Malheiros and Ivan Conti met in 1968 when they accompanied artists recording for the record label Equipe de Oswaldo Cadaxo, such as #EumirDeodato and his group #OsCatedrático, Paulo Moura and #Candeia. With the experience acquired as studio musicians and also accompanying big names from the Brazilian cultural scene at the end of the 1960s , the three formed - together with singer Fabíola and percussionist #AriovaldoContesini - the group 'Seleções', in 1970, to play covers at the old Rio nightclub 'Monsieur Pujol', by the duo Miele & Boscoli.

Azymuth – Águia Não Come Mosca

Label: #MrBongo – MRBLP209, Atlantic – BR-20.021-A

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue

Country: UK

Released: May 20, 2019

Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul

Style: #MPB, #Samba, #Fusion

A1 Vôo Sobre O Horizonte

A2 Águia Não Come Mosca

A3 Despertar

A4 Tarde

A5 Circo Marimbondo

B1 Tamborim, Cuíca, Ganzá, Berimbau

B2 A Presa

B3 A Caça

B4 Falcon Love Call (Armazém No. 2)

B5 Águia Negra X Dragão Negro

Bass, Guitar, Vocals – #AlexandreMalheiros

Cuica – #Nenem

Drums, Percussion, Vocals – #IvanMiguel (#Mamão)

Ganzá, Triangle, Tamborim – #Ariovaldo

Keyboards, Vocals – #JoséRobertoBertrami

Pandeiro – #Jorginho

Repinique [De Mão] – #Doutor

Soprano Saxophone – #PauloMoura (tracks: A2)

Vocals – Angela, Marcio Lott, Paraná

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