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Late Junction: Flora Purim's mixtape

Flora Purim's mixtape

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Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Brazilian jazz singer Flora Purim.

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from ‘Queen of Brazilian Jazz’ Flora Purim. Plus Haitian archive recordings, Cambodian cassettes and English tarot-inspired electronics.

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Grammy-nominated Brazilian jazz vocalist Flora Purim. Often referred to as ‘The Queen of Brazilian Jazz’, she has been a key figure in the Latin and American jazz scenes for the last seven decades. Early on in her career, she combined jazz with radical protest songs that challenged the Brazilian government, before leaving for New York in 1967. There she was able to spend time with her idols, including Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver, and over the course of her career has collaborated with a long list of esteemed musicians, from Dizzy Gillespie and Hermeto Pascoal to Gil Evans and Chick Corea. The longest collaboration of her career has been the one with her husband, the Brazilian jazz percussionist Airto Moreira. 

This month saw the release of her first studio album in 15 years, which revisits some of her past collaborations as well as new compositions, including alongside her daughter Diana Purim. Her mixtape for Late Junction pays homage to her jazz heroes, from American trumpeter Miles Davis to Polish vocalist Urszula Dudziak, as well as pieces from South African singer Miriam Makeba and Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. 

Elsewhere in the show there’s new music from Haitian-American multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla that draws on 20th century Haitian radio archives, as well as a collection of cassette recordings of Khmer music from Cambodia recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s. Plus a new release from Wessex electronic duo Reigns, inspired the story of an artist who created a beautifully illustrated deck of tarot cards only to completely destroy it in 1970 once it predicted her death.

Produced by Katie Callin. 
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