Jazz Articles about Gretchen Parlato

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Live Review

Art of Cool Jazz Festival: Gretchen Parlato and Alan Hampton

by K. Shackelford
May 19, 2015

Art of Cool Jazz Festival Gretchen Parlato and Alan Hampton PSI Theater Durham, NC April 25, 2015 It was a cool, whistful, and breezy Saturday evening. Sounds of improvisation and ingenuity seeped out of the edifices of multiple, cozy and packed venues---and into the air of the night. It was the final night of The Art of Cool Jazz Festival and one of several closing acts featured Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato and ...

Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC

Read "Live in NYC" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 24, 2014

Tra le molte voci femminili emerse nel nuovo millennio quella di Gretchen Parlato primeggia per classe interpretativa, padronanza ritmica, sensibilità e originalità timbrica. Nel panorama delle nuove interpreti bianche non crediamo abbia rivali, tanto quanto Cécile McLorin Salvant è oggi nell'ambito afro-americano. In questo doppio album (un CD audio e un DVD), registrato nell'intima atmosfera del Rockwood Music Hall di New York, la trentasettenne losangelina conferma la ricchezza del percorso compiuto dal 2005, quando debuttò sulla ...

Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC

Read "Live in NYC" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 5, 2013

In the ever-growing crowd of jazz vocalists, Gretchen Parlato increasingly stands out for her unique sound and musicality. She has been criticized by those who think she should sing “bigger," move around more, and open her eyes when she performs. But she has held to her own meditative style, which includes encouraging her bands to have spontaneous, passionate, and personally-expressive conversations, rather than being obedient supporters that she unilaterally “leads." This is all very evident on Live in NYC, which ...

Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC

Read "Live in NYC" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 17, 2013

Live in NYC is vocalist Gretchen Parlato's eagerly awaited live recording and follow-up to 2011's excellent The Lost And Found (Obliqsound). Gretchen Parlato (Obliqsound, 2006) and 2011's In A Dream (Obliqsound) round out her catalog as a leader. That said, Parlato has been much more busy than would be indicated by her four recordings in eight years. She has appeared on some 70-plus recordings from Kenny Barron's The Traveler (Emarcy, 2006) to Esperanza Spalding's Esperanza (Concord Music Group, 2008) to ...

Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: The Lost and Found

Read "The Lost and Found" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 25, 2011

Da quando si è aggiudicata il prestigioso premio Thelonious Monk per i musicisti emergenti, nel lontano 2004, dopo aver frequentato i corsi dell'omonimo istituto, Gretchen Parlato ha inciso, a suo nome, poco. The Lost And Found è, infatti, il suo terzo disco solista, che segue gli altrettanto belli In a Dream e il disco d'esordio, Gretchen Parlato. Questo, però, non vuol dire che in tutto questo tempo la vocalist sia rimasta inattiva. Al contrario. Nel breve volgere di qualche anno ...

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Album Review

Gretchen Parlato: The Lost and Found

Read "The Lost and Found" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 27, 2011

Gretchen Parlato is emerging as the most important jazz singer since Cassandra Wilson. Her vocal approach is so unique and her repertoire so eclectic that she stands to create a jazz vocal genre unto herself. After placing first in the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, Parlato released her eponymous debut, self-produced, in 2005. Warmly received, she followed her freshman effort up in 2009 with In a Dream (Obliqsound), her critical gravity growing. And those are ...

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Interview

Gretchen Parlato: Quiet Revolutionary

by Ian Patterson
June 27, 2011

It's safe to say that singer Gretchen Parlato has her admirers. The Boston Globe praised her as “the most original jazz singer in a generation," and pianist Herbie Hancock has described her connection to music as “almost magical." Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has likened her art to that of Frank Sinatra. It's hard to remember the last time a jazz singer has created such a stir and excited such high praise. The growing chorus of admirers is not without good reason; ...