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Flora, Django and Hector

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Marc Myers
Jul 09, 2022
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The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed the great Flora Purim for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Flora and I spoke by Zoom about her childhood in Rio de Janeiro, her passion for Brazilian folk rather than bossa nova, how she wound up visiting New York in 1966 and befriending Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Horace S…

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