title: Encounter (Flora Purim album)
text: # Encounter (Flora Purim album)
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
  
  Encounter is a studio album by Brazilian jazz singer Flora Purim that was released in 1977 on Milestone Records.
  
  ## Reception
  
  AllMusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and in its review, Scott Yanow calls it: "one of Flora Purim's finest all-around jazz recordings".
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Flora Purim – lead vocals, backing vocals
  * Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone (tracks: 1 and 8)
  * Raul de Souza – trombone (tracks: 2 and 4)
  * McCoy Tyner – acoustic piano (tracks: 5 and 6)
  * George Duke – electric piano, synthesizer (tracks: 1, 4, 7 and 8)
  * Hermeto Pascoal – electric piano, clavinet, vocals (tracks: 2, 3, 4 and 7)
  * Hugo Fattoruso – synthesizer (track: 2)
  * Ron Carter – acoustic bass (tracks: 3, 4 and 7)
  * Alphonso Johnson – electric bass (track: 8)
  * Byron Miller – electric bass (track: 1)
  * Airto Moreira – drums, percussion (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 and 8)
  * Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums, percussion (track: 1)
  * Googie Coppola – vocals (track: 7)
  * Urszula Dudziak – vocals (track: 7)
  