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Gretchen Parlato at The Jazz Standard
ByAppearing with her recording/ touring group (Marcel Camargoguitar/ musical director, Artyom Manukyan: cellist, Leo Costa: percussion), Parlato unveiled her Brazilian/jazz/classical repertoire with revolutionary insight and unmitigated command. In "Magnus" she revealed her melodic geomancy, and in "Wonderful" she uncovered playful instrumental musicality.... The best was yet to come. In "Bach Minuet" she counterpointed Camargo's guitar lines and Manukyan's bowings with innovative timbre and a pitch control equal to the vibrational accuracy in a physics lab -the latter spectacle scatted in the unending trademark Bach allegretto passages.
Superb jazz vocalists are rare. But rarer still are artists that transform the music itself. The great transformersHoliday, Fitzgerald, Vaughan, Carter and others left the stage long ago. When you see and hear Gretchen Parlato you will recall the magic of those jazz mistresses of yore and instantly realize, as have jazz cognoscenti everywhere, that that level of magic is with us once again.
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