articles & interviews

Apr 13 2018

Gretchen Parlato and the Possibilities of Jazz

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

Gretchen Parlato, take jazz as a "native language" 

by Camila Sánchez Bolaño, Newsweek, 9, April, 2018  
(google translation) 

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…

Dec 30 2015

JAZZIZ FEATURE INTERVIEW: A Voice All Her Own

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

Nine Women In The Room: A Jazz Musicians’ Roundtable

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

"It's More Than a Whisper": A Conversation With Gretchen Parlato 

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…