Sunday, 6/14/2026, 3pm - The Latin Jazz Show Special with Jesse 'Chuy' Varela

Don Dixon

Whether interpreting Brazilian Songbook standards, deploying her voice like a horn alongside an orchestra, or transforming beloved poems into original songs, Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza is a musician of the highest order. Long based in Los Angeles, she is perhaps best known for a GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY-winning series of intimate recordings pairing her with an extraordinary roster of Brazilian jazz guitarists. She takes on that intimate duo format into lustrous new territory with guitarist and composer Marcel Camargo, a fellow São Paulo native now based in Los Angeles, with her latest project, New Moon, that pairs the duo with a string quartet. Luciana Souza joins Jesse “Chuy” Varela on Sunday June 14 at 3:00pm on The Latin Jazz Show on the segment, The Sounds of Brazil, to talk about her upcoming appearance on June 28 at the Stanford Jazz Festival with this exciting new project.