Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. One of the all-time greats of Brazilian jazz fusion, Flora Purim, returns with her ...

I discovered the work of Flora Purim and Airto Moreira when I was very young and have followed their careers with admiration ever since. I was introduced to them by Jom Tob Azulay, who invited me to ...

The musician, now 80, looks back at her time with Chick Corea and Carlos Santana as she prepares to release her first album in 17 years. By Brad Farberman Once, at a Miles Davis concert, Flora Purim ...

Flora Purim burst onto the scene in the early 70s as a member of Chick Corea’s original Return to Forever. With her fleshy good looks, a husky voice buoyed by the crisp rhythms of her native Brazil ...

Flora Purim, 80, is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who pioneered world music and tonal jazz vocals in Chick Corea’s Return to Forever fusion band in the early 1970s. Her new album is “If You ...