This was one of
Flora Purim's finest all-around jazz recordings, and it is luckily available on CD.
Purim is featured in a variety of challenging and stimulating settings: on two numbers ("Above the Rainbow" and "Tomara") with pianist
McCoy Tyner; teamed up with tenor saxophonist
Joe Henderson on
Chick Corea's "Windows" and "Black Narcissus"; and utilizing such players as bass trombonist
Raul DeSouza, keyboardists
Hermeto Pascoal and
George Duke, and singer
Urszula Dudziak (who is heard on "Encounter") plus
Flora's husband, percussionist
Airto. The music is primarily group originals and finds
Flora Purim in peak form. Highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow