My somehow lost friend Pablo Arrieta removed my name from this album. Yes these things happen in the music industry.

Never the less, it was a great honor to have met and worked with the great Nana Vasconcelos. I arranged all the music, which have me playing the trumpets on them, while also helping Pablo to practice his own compositions, adding my chord changes from "The Other Side of The Odds" into "Lebanesa".

Nana's passing is much greater loss than someone who never paid and didn't credit everyone, more so disappointing that I helped Pablo to receive his masters degree, despite the fact that the director of the Jazz studies refused to do at first, which now makes a lot of sense.

I do love Pablo's compositions and Nana Vasconcelos is pure magic as always!

Enjoy!

Love and peace,

Volker

Recorded in 2003 Recife, Brazil