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North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk
by Mark Corroto
In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...
Nancy Harms: In the Indigo
by Bridget A. Arnwine
Jazz vocalist Nancy Harms presents In the Indigo, a sultry yet intelligent offering of old standards, original material, and the occasional pop cover. She sings like a woman who's sure of herself. Whether singing John Mayer's Great Indoors" or Irving Berlin's Blue Skies" she has a way of making even the simplest lyric sound like a ...
Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream
by Ken Dryden
Gretchen Parlato grew up in a musical household, the daughter of bassist/guitarist Dave Parlato (who worked with Don Ellis, Warne Marsh, Gil Melle and Frank Zappa, among others). She won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition and released her debut CD on her own label the following year; In a Dream is her long awaited ...
Announcing the Winners of the "Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream" Giveaway
Hila Brod, Peter Westbrook, Ken Daley, Katharine Hedlund and Matthew Gray, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the ObliqSound Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit ObliqSound for more releases. Enjoy the music! ...
Jazz a Special Focus of APAP 2010
Jazz plays a featured role in the run-down of APAP 2010 programs and events, thanks to our partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' NEA Jazz Masters Program and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Those in the business of making and presenting jazz have witnessed many changes, challenges and opportunities in recent years--all of which will ...
Brother Thelonious Quintet: Brother Thelonious
by Mark Corroto
Nobody can deny the distinctive signature of Thelonious Monk's music. Written for simple piano, bass, and drums, it is a remarkable blending of melody, harmony, and rhythm. Now, expand his conception into a quintet setting and the challenge as Monk would say, to lift the bandstand," presents itself to the musicians and arrangers. Assigning ...
Enter the ObliqSound "Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream" CD Giveaway Contest
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ObliqSound Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Gretchen Parlato at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...
Jazz Singer Gretchen Parlato: Her Music is Pacific, Like the Ocean
The title of Gretchen Parlato's new album In a Dream" (Obliqsound) aptly captures the sustained mood of ethereal introspection that she evokes from the first track to the last. Possessing an enticingly crystalline voice and a ravishing concept deeply informed by samba ballads and bossa nova, Parlato is among the very best of a rising generation ...
Gretchen Parlato's "In a Dream" Released on Obliqsound on August 25
Gretchen Parlato's voice is a thing of wonder. Striking the ideal balance between precision and flexibility, she is never predictable, blurring the lines between singer and instrumentalist as she takes a lyric -- and at other times improvised flights of wordless fancy -- to places it's never before been. On In a Dream, her debut album ...
Icons Among Us: An Epic Jazz Documentary, Part 2
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 This seminal documentary continues on the second CD with a scene straight out of a typical Gotham jazz collaboration: singer Gretchen Parlato and pianist Aaron Parks are together in a NYC apartment working out a vocal arrangement. Gretchen is heard commenting on the vagaries of jazz singing and the ...



