When it comes to orchestrating a perfect song Vince Mendoza knows that the first rule is to get out of the way. A seven-time Grammy Award winner who picked up his latest golden statue last month fo…
Grammy-winning singer Luciana Souza teams with Vince Mendoza in a concert March 25 at Stanford.When it comes to orchestrating a perfect song Vince Mendoza knows that the first rule is to get out of the way.
“I call Vince the translator,” said Souza, who won a Grammy Award herself as a featured vocalist on “River: The Joni Letters,” Herbie Hancock’s 2007 album interpreting the songs of Joni Mitchell. “He doesn’t add anything unnecessary. He lets the rhythm play itself and finds a way to leave chords and harmonies flowing together in a Brazilian way.”
“Storytellers” is Souza and Mendoza’s latest and most ambitious collaboration, building on a friendship that dates back more than a decade. They started working together when she hired him to arrange a medley of Jobim tunes, an assignment that Mendoza describes as “the beginning of my true Brazilian music education. Learning about that deep catalog of Jobim got me more interested in the other songwriters.
While Souza has been a regular presence on Bay Area stages since the mid-aughts via engagements with SF Performances, the Stanford Jazz Festival and SFJAZZ, Mendoza doesn’t make the trip north often.
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