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Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Flora Purim on 'Butterfly Dreams'

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Flora Purim on 'Butterfly Dreams'

Released Sunday, 27th November 2022
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Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Flora Purim on 'Butterfly Dreams'

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Flora Purim on 'Butterfly Dreams'

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Flora Purim on 'Butterfly Dreams'

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Flora Purim on 'Butterfly Dreams'

Sunday, 27th November 2022
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Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy is joined by the 80-year-old Queen of Brazilian Jazz, Flora Purim, from her home in Brazil to discuss her iconic 1973 LP 'Butterfly Dreams'. Influenced by both traditional Brazilian singers and the improvisations of American jazz divas like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Flora Purim was one of the most adventurous singers of the 1970s. After meeting and marrying her husband, percussionist Airto Moreira, in their native Brazil, Purim moved with him to the U.S. in the late ’60s. Though she worked with Stan Getz and pianist Duke Pearson before the decade ended, it wasn’t until joining Chick Corea, Joe Farrell, Stanley Clarke, and Moreira in the original Return To Forever in 1972 that she became well known in the States. Purim showed considerable promise on Forever classics like '500 Miles High' and 'Light As a Feather' and lived up to it when she went solo with 1973’s 'Butterfly Dreams'. Read more about your favourite album here classicalbumsundays.com.

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