ITHAMARA KOORAX – Brazilian Butterfly

Brazilian jazz singer Ithamara Koorax started her career in 1990, performing with the likes of Hermeto Pascoal, Edu Lobo, Azymuth, Marcos Valle, Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Donato. In 2002 she was voted one of the World’s Top 4 Jazz Singers in US jazz bible Down Beat mag’s Readers Poll. For this new extraordinary project (her ninth album) Koorax and her producer Arnaldo DeSouteiro assembled a phenomenal international cast as well as a challenging, inspiring repertoire of Brazilian all-time standards. Collaborators include Raul de Souza, Azymuth, Francesco Gazzara, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and a dream team of Brazilian percussionists, led by the late, legendary Dom Um Romão.

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