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ON THE HEELS OF THEIR GRAMMY® AWARD nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke continue to make their mark on the jazz…

by George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, June 4, 2023

The duo may be the first jazz artists in history to perform in less than 24 hours, at the two historid music venues, one after the other

How does a genre-blurring…

by Mitsutaka Nagira, Note
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Gretchen is one of the most important figures behind the rise of jazz in the 2010s. The accuracy of her rhythmic approach and the richness of her expression were indispensable to the jazz…

Morgan Enos,  London Jazz News Feature Article, 15 May 2023

Mondays With Morgan is a column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. Therein, he dives deep into the jazz that moves…

by Nate Chinen, WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source, May 11, 2023
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Gretchen Parlato has a low-gloss but captivating flair as a singer-songwriter, and over the last two decades she’s helped redraw the map for jazz vocals…

“Barbara Morrison taught me to pay attention to the lyrics of the song, to pay attention to the story that was being told. She would have us write out what we felt the song was about,” said Parlato, who acknowledged…

by Craig Byrd, Cultural Attaché, July 22, 2022

In the first postings about Wednesday’s tribute to Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra at the Hollywood Bowl there was a list of artists followed by “and more.” Singer Gretchen Parlato posted that…

Yoshi Kato, Downbeat Magazine, 11/09/2021

For the second time in three years, the all-star SFJAZZ Collective is shifting its paradigm. 

Since its founding in 2004, the SFJAZZ Collective had the same instrumentation: trumpet, tenor and alto saxophone, trombone, vibraphone, piano…

It's how music began: a voice and percussion. Basic, intimate, powerful.

The coronavirus lockdown laid waste to the plans of jazz vocal star, Grammy nominee Gretchen Parlato. But in isolation at home in Los Angeles, with partner Mark Guiliana on…

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“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…