Vivian Buczek - Live at the Palladium (2012)

Vivian is born In Malmoe and graduated from Malmoe Academy of Music in 2003. During her studies, she started performing on different festivals and clubs in Sweden. She made success in Poland where she's got her roots. In 2003, she made her first album "Can't we be friend's?" with musicians known as legends in Polish jazz society. The album reached Japan and was listed among the 16 best female jazz album among world known singers for example Stacey Kent. Vivian also participates on the "Rendez Vous On The Jazz Boulevard" Collection together among great female jazz vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy and Stacey Kent. She has been appreciated in Germany. The 26 of march 2006 the German radio station ARD had a tribute to the legendary piano player and composer Bill Evans. The listeners could hear different interpretations of his work performed by European musicians such as the French piano player Michel Petrucciani, the Dutch guitar player Philip van Endert and Vivian Buczek singing the lovely composition "Very Early". Her second CD "Straight From My Heart" was realesed 2007, recorded with top jazzmusicians in Scandinavia: Claes Crona, Jesper Thilo, Mattias Hjort, Zoltan Csörsz and Elias Källvik! Her third CD "Dedication To My Giants" is recorded with Claes Crona trio with featuring guests, the virtouse gitarrist Andreas Öberg and the popular Swedish singer Roger Pontare. The album was released in Sweden 2009 and released in Japan 2010. In october 2011 she recorded a live concert soon to be released on CD, "Live at the Palladium" with the quintet that includes Peter Asplund who is one of the hottest and most charismatic trumpetplayers on the Swedish jazzscene and the temperamental Claes Crona Trio who consists of pianist Claes Crona, bassist Hans Backenroth and drummer Johan Löfcrantz Ramsay. The quintet o ffers their interpretations of songs assigned the greatest vocalists and composers of all time. Upcoming release of "Live at the Palladium" in August/ September 2012.
The press says:
"If nothing unforeseen happens, Vivian Buczek is for a long time going to be one of our Swedish leading jazz singers. She has everything it needs; phrasing, articulation, timing, and great humor on stage."

Tracklist:

01. Tea for two
02. Caravan
03. Dearly beloved
04. It´s alright with me
05. Lush life
06. Social call
07. O bêbado e a equilibrista
08. A time for love
09. A night in Tunisia