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

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
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