FLORA PURIM AND AIRTO MOREIRA

1985) Three Way Mirror (Reference Recordings)
1985) Humble People (Concord)
1986) The Magicians (Concord Crossover)
1988) The Colours Of Life (In+Out)
1989) The Sun Is Out (Concord)

AIRTO MOREIRA

1971) Natural Feelings (Skye/Buddah)
1971) Seeds On The Ground - The Natural Sounds Of Airto (Cobblestone)
1972) Free (CTI)
1973) Fingers (CTI)
1974) Virgin Land (Salvation)
1975) Identity (Arista)
1976) Promises Of The Sun (Arista)
1977) I’m Fine. How Are You? (Warner Bros)
1979) Touching You…Touching Me (Warner Bros.)
1986) Latino/Aqui Se Puede (Montuno)
1988) Samba De Flora (Montuno)
1989) Struck By Lightning (Virgin/Venture)
1992) The Other Side Of This(Rykodisc)
1993) Airto And The Gods Of Jazz - Killer Bees (B&W)
1998) Revenge Of The Killer Bees (Electric M.E.L.T.)
2000) Homeless (M.E.L.T. 2000)
2003) Life After That (Narada World)

FOURTH WORLD

1992) Fourth World - Live At Ronnie Scott’s Club
          (Ronnie Scott's Jazz House)
1992) Fourth World (B&W)
1995) Encounters Of The Fourth World (B&W)
1996) The Meaning Of Live - Live In South Africa 1993 (B&W)
1998) Last Journey (M.E.L.T. 2000)
1999) Return Journey (Electric Melt)

ANTHOLOGIES AND REISSUES

1976) The Essencial Airto featuring Flora Purim & Special Friends            (Buddah)
1978) Deodato/Airto, The Best Of Deodato/Airto (CTI)
1980) Airto, Return To Forever (CTI)
1980) Flora Purim, Love Reborn (Milestone, M 9095)
1982) Airto featuring Flora Purim, Brazilian Heathwave
           (Accord Record Corp.)
1988) Flora Purim, Milestone Memories (BGP)
1994) Airto Moreira, Jump (West Wind Latino)
1994) Airto, The Best Of Airto (Columbia/Legacy)
1994) Airto, The Essential (Unidisc Music)
1994) Flora Purim, The Flight (B&W)
1999) Airto Moreira, Assential/The Very Best Of Airto Moreira
2001) Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, Wings Of Imagination (Concord)
2006) Flora Purim, Nós Dois (M.E.L.T. 2000)

SINGLES AND EPS

1965) Flora, Barquinho De Papel / Jeito Bom De Sofrer / Preciso Aprender A Ser Só / Gente (RCA Victor)
1965) Flora, Cartão De Visita/Reza (RCA Victor)
1966) Flora Purim, Jardim De Amor E Paz…/Maria Fulo (Farroupilha)
1969) Flora Purim, Les Biches/Why Can’t I Cry?
           (Tetragrammaton Records)
1971) Airto, Andei (I Walked)/Juntos (We Love) (Buddah)
1973) Airto Moreira, Parana/Parana (CTI)
1973) Airto Moreira, Parana/Merry Go-Round (CTI)
1973) Airto Moreira, Fingers/Tombo (CTI)
1973) Airto Moreira, Parana/Merry Go-Round (CTI France)
1974) Flora Purim, Casa Forte (Milestone)
1974) DEODATO/AIRTO, Do It Again/Branches (O Galho Da Roseira) (CTI)
1976) Flora Purim, Andei (I Walked)/Andei (mono version) (Milestone)
1977) AIRTO, Circo/Candango (Arista)
1977) Flora Purim, Fairy Tale Song/Angels (Warner Bros.)
1978) Flora Purim, Walking Away (Warner Bros.)
1978) Flora Purim, Angels/Angels (Warner Bros.)
1979) Flora Purim, Carry On (edit)/Love Lock (Warner Bros.)
1986) Flora Purim, Bird Of Paradise (Bellaphon)
1986) Flora Purim/Airto Moreira,
           Move It On Up/Move It On Up (Bellaphon)
1994) FOURTH WORLD, Africa/Firewater/Jive Talk (B&W)
1994) Flora Purim, Now Go Ahead And Open Your Eyes (B&W)
1995) Flora Purim, What You See/Light As My Flo (B&W)
1995) Flora Purim, Ghost Of Flora’s Dream (B&W)
1995) Flora Purim, Welcome Back ’95 (B&W)
1998) AIRTO MOREIRA, Revenge Of The Killer Bees (Electric Melt)
1998) FOURTH WORLD, Capoeira Da Mente (Electric Melt)
1998) FOURTH WORLD, Within Your Mind (Electric Melt)
1999) FOURTH WORLD, Return Journey (Remix 12 inch) (Electric Melt)

MAIN COLLABORATIONS

All titles below are original editions of albums where Flora appears a guest artist. Every work is listed chronologically, making reference to the actual year of publication (at times different from the recording date). List does not include compilations where the same tracks are simply reprinted without newer elements of collaboration from Flora.

1969) WALTER WANDERLEY, Moon Dreams (A&M/CTI)
1970) DUKE PEARSON, How Insensitive (Blue Note)
1970) CANNONBALL ADDERLEY, The Happy People (Capitol)
1970) DUKE PEARSON, It Could Only Happen To You (Blue Note)
1970) HERMETO PASCOAL, Hermeto (Cobblestone)
1971) GIL EVANS, Where Flamingos Fly (Artist House)
1972) CHICK COREA, Return To Forever (ECM)
1973) CHICK COREA AND RETURN TO FOREVER,
           Light As A Feather (Polydor)
1973) SANTANA, Welcome (Columbia)
1974) DEODATO, Deodato/Airto In Concert (CTI)
1974) SANTANA, Borboletta (Columbia)
1974) GEORGE DUKE, Feel (MPS)
1975) CANNONBALL ADDERLEY, Lovers (Fantasy)
1975) GEORGE DUKE, I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry (MPS)
1976) ALPHONSO JOHNSON, Moonshadows (Epic/CBS)
1976) ALPHONSO JOHNSON, Yesterday’s Dream (Epic) - TBC
1977) OPA, Magic Time (Milestone)
1977) HERMETO PASCOAL, Slaves Mass (Warner Bros.)
1978) GEORGE DUKE, Reach For It (Epic)
1978) COCKRELL & SANTOS, New Beginnings (A&M)
1978) JOE FARRELL, Night Dancing (Warner Bros.)
1979) MICHAEL FRANKS, Tiger In The Rain (Warner Bros.)
1979) GEORGE DUKE, A Brazilian Love Affair (Columbia/Epic)
1980) CHICK COREA, Tap Step (Stretch)
1980) JOE SAMPLE, Voices In The Rain (MCA)
1980) PACIFIC JAM, Pacific Jam (Discomate)
1980) THE RHYTHM DEVILS, The Apocalypse Now Sessions -
           Rhythm Devils Plays River Music
1980) LEE OSKAR, My Road Our Road (Elektra)
1982) GEORGE DUKE, Dream On (Columbia)
1982) LEON WARE, Leon Ware (Elektra)
1982) FAGNER, Sorriso Novo (aka Fagner) (CBS)
1984) AZYMUTH, Flame (Milestone)
1984) ANDRE HELLER, Narrenlieder (Mandragora)
1984) MICKEY HART, Dafos (Reference Recordings)
1986) PATRICE FISHER, Singers (Broken Records)
1986) JOSÉ NETO, Mountains And The Sea (Water Lily Acoustics)
1986) JOSÉ ROBERTO BERTRAMI, Dreams Are Real (Milestone)
1989) IVO PERELMAN, Ivo (K2B2 Records)
1989) DAVID FRIESEN, Other Times, Other Places (Global Pacific)
1990) ELEMENTS, Spirit River (RCA/BMG/Novus)
1990) RANDY TICO, Earth Dance (Higher Octave, HOMCD 7029)
1990) DIZZY GILLESPIE AND THE UNITED NATION ORCHESTRA,
           Live At The Royal Festival Hall (Enja)
1990) DAVID FRIESEN, Departure (Global Pacific, R2 79338)
1990) RYHTHMSTICK, Rhythmstick (CTI)
1991) MICKEY HART, Planet Drum [Rykodisc]
1991) GARY MEEK, Gary Meek (Lipstick)
1991) MICHAEL DEEP, Sea Of Joy (Higher Octave Music)
1992) RICARDO SILVEIRA, Small World (Verve Forecast)
1992) IVO PERELMAN, Children Of Ibeji (Enja)
1993) JOSÉ NETO, Neto (B&W)
1993) MARCO BOSCO, Tokyo Diary (New Frontier Records)
1994) URBAN SPECIES, Listen (Talkin’ Loud)
1995) MADALA, Kon’ko Man (B&W, BW058)
1995) DUKE PEARSON, I Don’t Care Who Knows It (Blue Note)
1995) STAN GETZ, Major Generale (Jazz Birdies Of Paradise)
1996) MONDAY MICHIRU, Adoption Agency (Kitty)
1997) TOR DIETRICHSON, Cosmic View (Global Pacific)
2000) MOSES TAIWA MOLELEKWA, Genes And Spirits (M.E.L.T.)
2000) GEORGE DUKE, Cool (Warner Bros.)
2002) JUAN MARTINS, Camino Latino (Flamencovision)
2002) GARY MEEK, Step 7 (A440 Music Group)
2002) SHAPES, The Last Farewell (Burnin’ Down The House Productions)
2003) DUKE PEARSON, Mosaic Select: Duke Pearson (Mosaic)
2003) JESSE COOK, Nomad (Narada World)
2004) EYEDENTITY, Third-Eye-Dentity (Eyedentity Music)
2004) INTUIT, Intuit (Compost, 165-2)
2004) DOWN TO THE BONE, Cellar Funk (Narada Jazz/Emi)
2004) BUNNY BRUNEL & FRIENDS, Café Au Lait (Brunel Music)
2004) GB, Soudtrack For Sunrise (Sound In Color)
2005) JAZZTRONICK, Cannibal Rock (Tokuma Japan Communications)
2005) DUBBLE D, Reachin’ Out (20:20 Vision)

COMPILATIONS WITH ORIGINAL TRACKS

1972) NDR-Die Jazz-Werkstatt 1972, (NDR Jazzworkshops)
1986) Bratislava Jazz Days (Opus)
1992) Live In Moscow, Fourth World (B&W)
1993) Access All Areas ’93, Fourth World (B&W, 268738)
1995) Heirs To Jobim – A Tribute To Antonio Carlos Jobim (RCAVictor)
1996) Red Hot + Rio: Pure Listening Pleasure (Antilles/Verve)
1997) On A Starry Night (Windham Hill)
2000) Airto Moreira Presents:
           <Code: Brasil> <Target. Recife> (M.E.L.T. 2000)
2000) Sketches Of James – Selections From The James Taylor
           Songbook (Koch Jazz)
2003) Take Me To The Sunshine - Miki Imai Songbook
           (Victor Entertainment)

SOUNDTRACKS

1977) The Exorcist II: The Heretic, a John Boorman film. (Warner Bros.)
Flora sings on the “Pazuzu” theme with a chorus of women, not credited.

1979) Apocalypse Now, a Francis Ford Coppola film. (Warner Bros.)

1981) Sharky’s Machine, a Burt Reynolds film. (Warner Bros.)
Flora plays the theme “Dope Bust”with Buddy De Franco.

1993) Made In America. A Richard Benjamin, Patrick Palmer and David Richard Ellis film.
Airto & Flora play the theme “Mysterious Island”, originally in the Planet Drum cd.

1994) The Air Up There. A Paul Michael Glaser film. (Buena Vista Pictures)
Airto & Flora play the themes “Reunion I”, “Reunion II”, “Reunion III”, originally in the Dafos lp and cd, but conceived and recorded in 1978 for the Apocalypse Now sessions.

1994) Camp Nowhere, a Jonathan Prince film. (Buena Vista)
Flora & Airto play, along with the Rhythm Devils on the track “Bones”, originally in The Apocalypse Now Sessions lp and cd.

1999) Running Free, a film by Bodrov Sergei
Airto & Flora plays the themes “Dance Of The Hunter’s Fire” and “The Hunt”, originally in the Planet Drum cd.

MAIN VIDEO PERFORMANCES

1986) AIRTO MOREIRA & FLORA PURIM, Purely Music

1986) AIRTO MOREIRA & FLORA PURIM, Harvest Jazz
Recorded live in 1985 at the Harvest Jazz Festival, at the Paul Masson Vineyard.

1988) AIRTO MOREIRA & FLORA PURIM, The Latin Jazz All-Stars – Live At The Queen Mary Jazz Festival

1989) DIZZY GILLESPIE AND VARIOUS ARTISTS, Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie: An All-Star Tribute To The Jazz Master
Contains excerpts from a tribute show recorded in 1987.

1989) DIZZY GILLESPIE AND THE UNITED NATIONS ORCHESTRA – Live At The Royal Festival Hall, London
Contains excerpts from the concert recorded in 1989 in London

1990) VARIOUS ARTISTS, Rhythmstick

1991) IVO PERELMAN, Live In New York With Flora Purim
Contains three tracks with Flora Purim lead vocalist of the Ivo Perelman group, recorded in 1990

1993) AIRTO MOREIRA, Listen And Play
(with Fourth World)

1993) AIRTO MOREIRA, Rhythms And Colors
(with Fourth World)

1993) AIRTO MOREIRA, Brazilian Percussions
(with Fourth World)

1995) AIRTO MOREIRA, Highlights From Rhythms And Colors
(with Fourth World)

2003) BOBBY HUTCHERSON/FLORA PURIM, Cool Summer
Contains one track recorded by the Flora & Airto group in 1985 at the Harvest Jazz Festival, at the Paul Masson Vineyard.

BOOKS

1982) EDWARD BUNKER/FLORA PURIM, Freedom Song – The Story Of Flora Purim (Berkley Book)

1994) AIRTO MOREIRA/DAN THRESS, Rhythms And Colors – Listen And Play (Manhattan Music Publications)

COMPILED BY Giancarlo Mei