Hi SZ friends,

Yesterday I received a personal mail from
"Ithamara Koorax". She has made the last recordings with Antonio Carlos Jobim before he died on 8 december 1994. The whole story you can read on my website (www.notlos.com )
It's a great honour for me to receive a personal mail from Ithamara !!!!
She also send a Photo from her and the Maestro "Jobim" to me.
Ithamara wrote:

Hello Dirk,
Firstly, congratulations for your website.
I'm glad and honored to be mentioned on it, thanks to our mutual passion for Jobim!
Attached, please find a photo from my recording session with Jobim for my "Rio Vermelho" (Red River) album, in October 1994.
When you have a chance, please visit my official website at www.koorax.com
There you'll find many other pictures with Jobim in the Photo Gallery section.
I'm just back from an European tour, which included two wonderful sold-out concerts in Paris. Of course, the repertoire included several of Jobim's songs.
My latest album includes a previously unreleased Jobim song, "You Were Born To Be Mine" (aka "Absolut Lee").
Hoping to hear from you soon,
Kindest Regards,
Ithamara Koorax www.koorax.com


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Dirk:

You must be doing backflips and handstands. What an honor. Congratulations.

By the way, I had a look at your site and was equally impressed. Believe me, I will be paying more attention to your future posts.

RICE (The Lone Arranger)

Dirk, sorry for having missed reading this posting earlier. Wow. This looks to be perhaps an opportunity to work with Ithamara now. Your site and music continue to impressive. Keep up the great work.

On another note, realizing you're a keyboard salesman at Key-Music, I'm wondering if you by any chance attended the Tyros2 music unveiling in Austria (Sep 18th) for europoean music dealers. Realizing that Key-Music will probably be selling/stocking Tyros2 before it even arrives here in the States, I'm anxious to hear your candid feedback about it after you've had a chance to play one yourself.

Scott

Many thanks to Scott and riceroni9 for the reply !!

Hi Scott,

I have a seminar in Belgium (october) for the tyros2. i will make a topic here after this seminar.

greetings,

notlos www.notlos.com

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Thankx to Scott for adding the photo here.

Notlos

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[This message has been edited by notlos (edited 09-23-2005).]

Here is what i wrote back to ithamara:

Hello Ithamara,

It's a "great honour" for me to receive a personal mail from you.
To me "Antonio Carlos Jobim" is a piece of my life, I discovered his music when
I was 16 and I love his harmonisation and music so much.
I'm also a musician and work in the music industry. Sometimes I make compositions in
"Bossa Nova" style.
You made my day yesterday. You are a great artist and I adore your style of singing.

Many warm greetings from Belgium (europe),

Dirk Baert

p.s. Thankx for the Picture you send to me in attachment.


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Hello Dirk

D I T T O !

Chico

Way to go, Dirk!I have been a lifelong Jobim fan. Started playing bossas around age 15 and never stopped. Nice website and GREAT taste in music!

Best Regards,


Russ

Thx,
Chicco & captain Russ

notlos

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