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.