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Flora Purim

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Jazz

Flora Purim is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Harris, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. Those roots explain a lot about how Flora Purim arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Leny Andrade, Nana Caymmi, Astrud Gilberto, Hermeto Pascoal and Gary Bartz, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Reggie Lucas, A Certain Ratio and Rubén Rada, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 39 connections around Flora Purim, reaching back through Dizzy Gillespie and forward to Reggie Lucas. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Flora PurimDizzy GillespieJohnny HarrisDinah WashingtonBillie HolidayFrank SinatraBill EvansOscar PetersonErroll GarnerReggie LucasA Certain RatioRubén RadaLeny AndradeNana CaymmiAstrud GilbertoHermeto PascoalGary BartzNara LeãoJoão DonatoMarcos Valle

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Flora Purim connections

Flora Purim grew out of Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Harris, Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday, shares an orbit with Leny Andrade, Nana Caymmi, Astrud Gilberto and Hermeto Pascoal, went on to shape Reggie Lucas, A Certain Ratio and Rubén Rada. 39 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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