LUCIANA SOUZA MEETS WDR BIG BAND - Grammy award winning artists Luciana Souza and Vince Mendoza have joined forces with WDR Big Band Cologne on this most extraordinary collaboration - Storytellers. Considered one of the most important singers of her generation, Brazilian-born Luciana Souza brings her deeply personal and illuminated singing to songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Pinheiro, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque, Guinga, Djavan, Ivan Lins, and Gilberto Gil. Renowned arranger Vince Mendoza presents each song in this collection with an enlightened score that springs from his profound understanding of orchestration, coloring, and his exceptional ability as a composer. Here, the listener is rewarded with a recording that is essential and truthful, where joy and sorrow, loss and love are stories articulated in ways that reach incomparable beauty. MUSICIANS: LUCIANA SOUZA (vocals) WDR BIG BAND COLOGNE (big band) VINCE MENDOZA (arranger and conductor)
