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- Summary: The first new full-length studio release in 15 years for Brazilian jazz artist Flora Purim was produced by Roberta Cutolo.
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- Record Label: Strut
- Genre(s): Jazz, Latin, Fusion, Vocal Jazz, Contemporary Jazz Vocals, Latin Jazz, Global Jazz, Brazilian Jazz
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Jul 13, 2022A well-polished gem – welcome back.
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Jul 13, 2022It’s remarkable, throughout, how well Purim has held up, as a singer, as a jazz composer and band leader and as an artist. You wouldn’t know, from listening, whether she was 80 or 60 or 20. The songs are vital, pulsing with bright energy, imbued with a lifetime’s skill but effervescent. Not many women got to play as pivotal a role in jazz as Purim did. This retrospective makes the case for her importance without getting bogged down in it.
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Jul 13, 2022Here she fronts a septet with dreamy acoustic guitars, shimmering layers of percussion, and a sweeping flügelhorn, putting the tune to rest as if it were her own. If You Will is a revelatory exercise.
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The WireJul 13, 2022It serves as both a reconsideration of what’s come before and a confident step forward. [Jul 2022, p.52]
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UncutJul 13, 2022Purim blends new material with rebooted old favorites here, applying her lush liquid harmonies and dazzling six-octave vocal acrobatics to voluptuous bossa nova reveries. [May 2022, p.32]