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Vivian Buczek
Vivian has performed with some of the top international jazz artists such as the legendary trumpet player Clark Terry, Scot Hamilton (ts), Harry Allen(ts) as well as Swedish jazz artists like Putte Wickman (cl), Jan Allan (tp), Svante Thuresson (voc), Claes Crona (p), Jan Lundgren(p), Magnus Lindgren (ts, fl, cl) Rigmor Gustafsson (voc), Viktoria Tolstoy (voc), the Danish saxofon player Jesper Thilo and the world known opera singer Barbara Hendricks.
Vivian is born In Malmö and graduated from Malmoe Academy of Music in 2003. Already during her studies, she started performing on different festivals and clubs in Sweden. Most importantly she made success in Poland were 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.
In great company
Vivian also participates on the "Rendez Vous On The Jazz Boulevard" Collection together with female jazz vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy, Stacey Kent and many more.
Vivian has also 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 new CD "Straight From My Heart" is now beeing realesed, recorded with one of the top jazzmusicians in Scandinavia, Claes Crona Jesper Thilo, Mattias Hjort, Zoltan Csörsz and Elias Källvik!
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Vivian Buczek at Ladies' Jazz Festival
by Marek J. Śmietański
A collection of photos from the Vivian Buczek concert at Konsulat Kultury in Gdynia on July 21, 2025 featuring Tokaj Michal, Michal Baranski and Lukasz Zyta. ...
Continue ReadingVivian Buczek: Le Grand Michel
by Neil Duggan
The title of this album, Le Grand Michel, refers to French composer, pianist and arranger, Michel Legrand. In a glittering career, he wrote hundreds of film and television scores. He won three Oscars (from 13 nominations) with “The Windmills of Your Mind," featured in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), perhaps his best- known work. This song had English lyrics written by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman, the couple formed a long-lasting songwriting relationship with Legrand, also winning three Oscars.
Continue ReadingVivian Buczek: Roots
by Kyle Simpler
Since 2003, Vivian Buczek has established herself as a powerful force in the contemporary jazz scene. Her voice is soulful and powerful. She can be sensitive and emotional on a ballad, but then turn around and sing blues songs as if she's been doing it all her life, which she actually has been. With Roots, she brings the listener into her musical world and offers, what she calls, “the most personal album I've ever made." On Roots, Buczek ...
Continue ReadingVivian Buczek: A Woman's Voice
by Chris Mosey
An ambitious project from Sweden: vocalist Vivian Buczek joining forces with the Norrbotten Big Band using song to illustrate life from a woman's perspective. Buczek says: “It's about taking the step from a girl to a woman, looking back in time and then to the future, finding my place in the world and daring to go my own way." With this album she celebrates some of her main sources of inspiration, artists who have made a lasting ...
Continue ReadingVivian Buczek: Ella Lives
by Chris Mosey
Sweden's Vivian Buczek, fast approaching her 40th birthday, comes across more as a schoolgirl with a crush on her teacher on this, her seventh solo album, which pays tribute to The First Lady Of Song. Ella Fitzgerald--had she not died in 1996--would be 100 this year. “Ella Fitzgerald has always been my greatest inspiration and the main reason that I have become a jazz singer," Buczek explains in the sleeve note. Her father Bruno, who played trombone, ...
Continue ReadingVivian Buczek: Curiosity
by Bruce Lindsay
Vivian Buczek is blessed with a glorious voice--warm, emotional, engaging--and a talent for sophisticated interpretations of established but not over-worked songs. Curiosity, the Swedish singer's fifth album, places her in the company of a piano trio led by the excellent pianist and arranger Martin Sjöstedt. It's company she clearly relishes and in which she shines brightly.Buczek has put together a group of songs that draw on the American Songbook ("How Deep Is The Ocean," “For All We Know"), ...
Continue ReadingVivian Buczek: Live At The Palladium
by Bruce Lindsay
Swedish vocalist Vivian Buczek has been on the Scandinavian jazz scene for over a decade, releasing her first album, Can't We Be Friends (Skandia Music) in 2003. Live At The Palladium is her fourth solo album, though she's also recorded with the Artistry Jazz Group. The Palladium in question isn't the world- renowned London theatre, it's the one in Buczek's home town of Malmö, but this concert sparkles with such energy and vivacity that it could readily have graced the ...
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