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Luciana Souza & vince mendoza

Storytellers” + Big Band

Luciana Souza & vince mendoza

“Storytellers” + Big Band

Grammy award winning artists Luciana Souza and Vince Mendoza have joined forces with the WDR Big Band on this most extraordinary collaboration, Storytellers. Now your big band can perform these charts with Luciana and Vince as guests. Both artists bring their deeply personal, colorful, and illuminated musicality to songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque, Guinga, Djavan, Ivan Lins, and Gilberto Gil.

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Yellowjackets + Big Band

Yellowjackets

+ Big Band

Grammy award winning Yellowjackets have expanded their immense repertoire to include the luscious and powerful big band sound. They recorded their first big band album with the WDR Big Band in November 2019. The album is set to release this year on the Mack Avenue label. Yellowjackets will be performing as guests in a big band setting in the US for the first time EVER!

 
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Sean Jones

Dizzy Spellz, featuring Brinae Ali

Sean Jones

Dizzy Spellz, featuring Brinae Ali

Dizzy Spellz offers an Afro-futuristic lens exploring the intersection of cultural and spiritual dilemmas within the African Diaspora through the music of Dizzy Gillespie. From his coming of age through racial and social dynamics in the Deep South, creating and curating the bebop movement in New York, to his spiritual journey to Africa and his delve into Afro Cuban music and the Baha’i Faith, Dizzy was very much ahead of his time. Sean Jones (trumpeter/musical director) and Brinae Ali (choreographer/tap dancer/vocalist) have teamed up to create a piece that fuses elements of jazz, tap, Hip Hop, and BeBop to articulate the social vernacular of the African-American experience.