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Seattle Times Review: Jazz Port Townsend Showcases a New Generation of Jazz
PORT TOWNSEND — During a workshop she helped teach on the art of vocal jazz, Gretchen Parlato confessed that many of her favorite singers were those who “don't really sing." Several hours before she took the big stage at McCurdy Pavilion for her festival debut, she explained some of the singers she liked the most did ...
Jazz Port Townsend Pulls out All the Stops
Jazz Port Townsend, Washingtons largest summer jazz festival turns the Victorian seaport and arts community of Port Townsend into the summer jazz getaway July this weekend. The festival, headlined by such internationally renowned musicians as Taylor Eigsti, Wycliffe Gordon, Ernie Andrews, Sarah Gazarek, Benny Green, and Ambrose Akinmusire, among others, features jazz in the clubs as ...
Handling Sneaky Rhythms as Singer or Bandleader
Gretchen Parlato became a presence in New York jazz five years ago, around the time she won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition. At the time she seemed to work best in collaboration: she played often with the guitarist Lionel Loueke in performances that nearly merged their sensibilities, and she turned up for a song ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time
by John Kelman
Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three | Episode Four ---> Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseEpisode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time The Documentary ChannelApril 27, 2009, 09:00-10:00PMParadigm Studio2009After a promising launch on April 20, 2009, with ...
Justin Vasquez: Triptych
by Phil DiPietro
Young saxophonist Justin Vasquez acquits himself assertively on this 2009 debut, adapting the model of the tough Texas tenors to his own assiduous Austin alto. But that convenient alliterative to Vasquez's lone star origins belies his true lineage in the modern, slashing altoist mold carved out by the likes of David Binney,Greg Osby, Steve Coleman and ...
Obliqsound Signs Vocalist Gretchen Parlato
ObliqSound is pleased to announce the signing of its newest artist, American vocalist Gretchen Parlato. Having appeared as a guest on three previous ObliqSound releases, the singer who Herbie Hancock describes as having a “deep, almost magical connection to the music" will release her debut ObliqSound album in 2009. The album will combine Parlato's vocals in ...
Gretchen Parlato: Gretchen Parlato
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel music business si parla troppo e si canta poco. E spesso le voci migliori tacciono. Prendete Gretchen Parlato, ad esempio. Sangue statunitense - è di Los Angeles - ma cuore portoghese, la cantante ha approfondito i suoi studi di jazz vocale con Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson e Tierney Sutton. Accettata al Thelonious Monk Institute of ...
Gretchen Parlato
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2005
Track listing: 01. Skylark; 02. Flor de Lis; 03. Come To Me; 04. Nonvignon; 05. Ela é carioca; 06. Chega de saudade; 07. Benny’s Tune; 08. Juju/Footprints
Gretchen Parlato, David Devoe, Julie Hardy: New Singers Showcase at the 55 Bar
by Michael P. Gladstone
On November 20, a three hour evening of New Singers was held at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village, NYC, to showcase the talents of Gretchen Parlato, David Devoe and Julie Hardy. The principal attraction of the event was the opportunity to see Parlato, the winner of this year's prestigious Thelonious Monk Award given earlier ...
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