{"title":"Flora Purim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFlora Purim grew up singing bossa nova in the nightclubs of Rio and São Paulo, and her 1964 debut \"Flora É M.P.M.\" sounds almost nothing like the singer she'd become. The transformation happened after she moved to New York in 1968 with her husband, percussionist Airto Moreira, and started turning up at after-hours jam sessions with Stan Getz, Gil Evans and Duke Pearson, absorbing an improvisational language well outside the bossa nova songbook she'd grown up on. When Chick Corea needed a singer and a percussionist for a new fusion project in 1971, Purim brought Moreira along, and the resulting band, Return to Forever, made her one of the defining voices of jazz fusion almost overnight. Her wordless vocals on \"Return to Forever\" (ECM, 1972) and \"Light as a Feather\" (Polydor, 1972), the latter featuring \"500 Miles High\", remain among the most distinctive vocal performances in the genre. She left to record solo for Milestone, starting with \"Butterfly Dreams\" (1973) and \"Stories to Tell\" (1974), and despite an 18-month prison sentence in 1974 and 1975 that interrupted her momentum, she emerged with four DownBeat Best Female Jazz Vocalist awards to her name. What's stocked here spans her early Brazilian work through to the Milestone solo records that built her reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"flora-purim-flora-e-m-p-m-1980-japanese-rca-vinyl-lp","title":"Flora Purim - Flora É M.P.M. (1980 Japanese RCA Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eObi:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEX\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur grading system explained \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlora Purim - \u003cem\u003eFlora É M.P.M.\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1980 Japanese RCA Reissue (PG-144, RVC Corporation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the record that almost nobody heard before Purim became famous. She was 22 and singing in Rio's bossa nova clubs. Dom Um Romão, who would later move to New York and play with Weather Report and Cannonball Adderley, coordinated the sessions and played drums. Rosinha de Valença, one of the most respected guitarists in Brazilian music (and one of the few women playing guitar professionally in the bossa nova scene), provides the harmonic foundation. Raul de Souza, credited by his nickname Raulzinho, plays trombone. The material leans heavily on Carlos Lyra and Vinícius de Moraes (four tracks, including \"Cartão de Visita,\" \"Maria Moita\" and \"Samba do Carioca\") and on Edu Lobo, who was 21 at the time and being talked about as the next generation of Brazilian composition (\"Reza\" and \"Boranda,\" both co-written with filmmaker Ruy Guerra, would become MPB standards). \"A Morte de Um Deus de Sal\" opens the album with a Menescal\/Bôscoli piece that already hints at the vocal range Purim would become known for. \"Hava Nagila,\" the Israeli folk song, is the anomaly in the programme, explained by Purim's Jewish heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree years after this recording, Purim moved to New York and married percussionist Airto Moreira. Gil Evans invited her into his orchestra, calling her voice an instrument. She joined Chick Corea's Return To Forever for \u003cem\u003eLight As A Feather\u003c\/em\u003e (1972) and \u003cem\u003eReturn To Forever\u003c\/em\u003e (1972), then launched a solo career on Milestone with \u003cem\u003eButterfly Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e (1973), winning \u003cem\u003eDownBeat\u003c\/em\u003e's Best Jazz Singer poll five years running. None of that is audible here. This is straight bossa nova, sung with clarity and restraint rather than the extended vocal techniques she would develop later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the 1980 Japanese reissue on RCA PG-144, number 10 in the Brazilian Summer Collection series, manufactured by RVC Corporation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43711301550139,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7514.jpg?v=1782543455"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/flora-purim.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}