Award-winning singer Luciana Souza pays tribute to some of Brazil’s most popular songwriters together with Vince Mendoza and the Bohuslän Big Band. Fusing traditional Brazilian music and American jazz, Souza puts her deeply personal and colorful stamp on songs from her homeland. Brazilian classics by songwriters such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque, Guinga, Djavan, Ivan Lins and Gilberto Gil are performed in Vince Mendoza’s big band arrangement together with one of Sweden’s best big bands, the Bohuslän Big Band.
Together they make Storytellers a musical firework of color and form. LUCIANA SOUZA is one of jazz’s leading interpreters. Her work transcends from traditional musical boundaries and crosses jazz, world music and modern tones. She has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez, Guillermo Klein, and John Patitucci, among others. During her 20 year career, she has released six records, all Grammy-nominated and praised for her versatility.
VINCE MENDOZA has been at the forefront of the jazz and contemporary music scenes as a composer, arranger, conductor and recording artist for the past 20 years. Mendoza’s arrangements are heard on many critically acclaimed projects, including albums by Björk, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin, Melody Gardot, Sting and Joni Mitchell. He has won six Grammys and been nominated twenty-five times. Starting in 2022, he is Conductor-in-Residence, guest conductor, with Bohuslän Big Band. Storytellers is done as part of his residency.
BOHUSLÄN BIG BAND is a professional big band based in Västra Götaland, which tours extensively in the region as well as nationally and internationally. Bohuslän Big Band collaborates regularly with renowned national and international jazz musicians, arrangers and composers such as Maria Schneider, Vince Mendoza, Joe Lovano, Danilo Peréz, Carla Bley, John Beasley, Nils Landgren and popular artists such as Jill Johnson, The Mamas, Samuel Ljungblahd and many more.
