Butterfly Dreams
{{Infobox album
| name = Butterfly Dreams
| type = studio
| artist = Flora Purim
| cover = Butterfly_Dreams.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1973
| recorded = December 1973
| studio = Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, California)
| genre = {{hlist|Latin jazz|jazz fusion}}
| length = 36:45
| label = Milestone
| producer = Orrin Keepnews
| prev_title = Flora e MPM
| prev_year = 1964
| next_title = 500 Miles High
| next_year = 1974
| misc =
}}
Butterfly Dreams is the second studio album by Brazilian jazz singer Flora Purim. It was released in 1973 via Milestone Records. Recording sessions took place at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in December 1973.
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/butterfly-dreams-mw0000651773|title=Butterfly Dreams – Flora Purim|website=AllMusic|last=Newsom|first=Jim|accessdate=September 4, 2018}}
| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{Cite book|editor-last=Swenson|editor-first=J.|year=1985|title=The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide|publisher=Random House/Rolling Stone|location=US|isbn=0-394-72643-X|pages=164}}
| rev3 = All About Jazz
| rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/butterfly-dreams-flora-purim-milestone-review-by-john-kelman |title=Flora Purim: Butterfly Dreams |first=John |last=Kelman |date=July 31, 2007 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=September 29, 2022}}
}}
In a review for AllMusic, Jim Newsom wrote: "Neatly capturing Flora Purim's many vocal strengths, Butterfly Dreams delivered on the great expectations generated by her work with Corea and turned out to be a high point in her recording career."
John Kelman of All About Jazz called the album "a diverse record that in its brief 37 minutes, affirms Purim's position as one of the most important musical voices to emerge from that era."
Writing for New Directions in Music, Marshall Bowden commented: "There is a freshness to [Purim's] voice here that is not always evident in later work... It doesn’t hurt that her collaborators here are among her most sympathetic... For those who enjoy light-sounding (as opposed to light on musical ideas) fusion tinged with Latin elements and airy, roomy vocalization, Butterfly Dreams is the perfect ticket."{{cite web |url=https://www.newdirectionsinmusic.com/flora-purim-butterfly-dreams |title=Flora Purim/Butterfly Dreams |first=Marshall |last=Bowden |website=New Directions in Music |access-date=September 29, 2022}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| title1 = Dr. Jive (Part I)
| music1 = Stanley Clarke
| lyrics1 =
| length1 = 2:15
| title2 = Butterfly Dreams
| music2 = Stanley Clarke
| lyrics2 = Neville Potter
| length2 = 6:59
| title3 = Dindi
| music3 = Antônio Carlos Jobim
| lyrics3 = Aloísio de Oliveira
| length3 = 5:50
| title4 = Summer Night
| music4 = {{hlist|Harry Warren|Al Dubin}}
| length4 = 6:23
| title5 = Love Reborn
| music5 = George Duke
| lyrics5 = Flora Purim
| length5 = 3:40
| title6 = Moon Dreams
| music6 = Egberto Gismonti
| lyrics6 = {{hlist|Jay Livingston|Ray Evans}}
| length6 = 4:59
| title7 = Dr. Jive (Part II)
| music7 = Stanley Clarke
| length7 = 3:41
| title8 = Light as a Feather
| music8 = Stanley Clarke
| lyrics8 = Flora Purim
| length8 = 5:44
| total_length = 36:45
}}
Personnel
- Flora Purim – vocals, arrangement (track 3)
- George Duke – electric piano (tracks: 1–3, 5–8), ARP synthesizer (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 8), clavinet (tracks: 1, 7), piano (track 4), arrangement (track 5)
- David Amaro – electric guitar (tracks: 1, 3, 7, 8), acoustic guitar (tracks: 4–6)
- Stanley Clarke – Fender electric bass (tracks: 1, 3, 7), acoustic bass (tracks: 2, 4–6, 8), arrangement (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6–8)
- Ernie Hood – zither (tracks: 4, 6–8)
- Joe Henderson – flute (tracks: 1, 8), tenor saxophone (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8)
- Airto Moreira – drums, percussion
;Technical
- Orrin Keepnews – producer
- Jim Stern – engineering
- Eddie Bill Harris – engineering
- David Turner – mastering
- Anthony Samuel Lane – art direction, design, photography
References
{{reflist}}
{{Flora Purim}}
External links
- {{Discogs master|141990|Flora Purim – Butterfly Dreams}}
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070705195728/http://www.florapurim.com/disc2.htm Flora's Recordings on her website]}}
- [https://music.apple.com/us/album/butterfly-dreams/1443108607 Butterfly Dreams by Flora Purim] on iTunes
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