Dec 14 2020
"I met Parlato in 2007—she lugged her amp up stairs, through awkwardly shaped turnstiles, and performed to a near-empty venue...her friend, Espe, sat in on a couple of duo tunes. Esperanza Spalding, to be clear."
A major new album– after…
Sep 13 2019
NPR/KFYI, SEP 13, 2019
The Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato is no stranger to NPR audiences, she clenched best album in the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll with her 2011 release "The Lost and Found."
Parlato has shared the stage…
Mar 5 2019
JAZZ HISTORY ONLINE
“I like to pare a song down to get to its essence”, Parlato told me while preparing for a creativity workshop at the Wichita Jazz Festival. “The best kind of compliment is when people tell me they…
Sep 20 2018
US Embassy in Seoul, So Korea
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Jun 2 2018
Gretchen Parlato treated audiences of this Close Encounter to an intimate workshop and discussion surrounding her practice as a vocalist and performer.
Hailed as the most important jazz singer since Cassandra Wilson, Gretchen Parlato is the kind of artist that…
Apr 13 2018
Elda Garcia
It could well fit in a New York jazz club of the 40s, but you can also imagine it in the moonlight while watching the sea of Rio de Janeiro. Such are the possibilities and nuances of Gretchen…
Apr 9 2018
by Camila Sánchez Bolaño, Newsweek, April 9, 2018
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Parlato returns to the stage after four years of absence with a new album: Flor, which she says is a very personal connection to music. In her voice, Gretchen Parlato…
Apr 8 2018
US jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato will bring her tribute to Brazilian influences "flor" to the capital for one show at the Opera House during the Wellington Jazz Festival in June.
Aug 18 2017
by Abe Beeson, KNKX • Aug 18, 2017
Gretchen Parlato will knock you off your feet.
After more than a dozen years in the heart of the jazz world in New York City, Gretchen Parlato has become one of the…
Dec 30 2015
Singer Gretchen Parlato sweeps aside her fears on The Lost and Found
Interview with Kara Manning, Jazziz Magazine
"The theme just kept unraveling of the lost and found... light and dark, good and bad. It's always a cycle. Just when…
Nov 1 2015
The roundtable participants are, from left to right: (top row) Geri Allen, Ingrid Jensen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Tineke Postma and Helen Sung; (bottom row) Nona Hendryx and Gretchen Parlato.
Over the summer, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington brought together…
Sep 23 2015
Michael J. West
Los Angeles native Gretchen Parlato is among an elite group of musicians who made their breakthrough in Washington, D.C.: She was the winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition for Vocals. Seven years and three…