awards & credits
2023
Lean In:
10 Albums You Need to Know, Jazziz Magazine
#1 Top Selling Album upon release, iTunes Jazz
Editors Choice — JAZZIZ
2022
Flor:
64th GRAMMY Awards Nominee - Best Jazz Vocal Album
Vocal Album of the Year International — German Jazz Awards 2022
2021
Downbeat Magazine cover article - March 2021
Jazzwise Magazine cover and article - April, 2021
Flor:
#1 Top Selling Album upon release, iTunes Jazz
#3 Album of the Year, Jazzwise Critics Poll 2021
#5 Best Jazz Album of 2021 - Jazzwise
#5 The 10 best jazz albums of 2021 — The Guardian
Albums of the Year 2021 — the Arts Desk
The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2021 — Global Circulate
Album of the Week, Jazz FM
Editor's Choice, Jazzwise Magazine
10 Albums You Need to Know, Jazziz Magazine
Album of the Month, Stereo Magazine, DE
2020
Wonderful - single release:
Amazon Best of 2020 Jazz
Track of the Week, JazzFM
#1 on cover, Amazon Music Fresh Jazz
#1 on cover, Tidal Vocal Jazz Standards & Standouts
#3 Apple Music Jazz Currents
#4 iTunes Featured Jazz
2016
Tillery: Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato, Becca Stevens:
4 1/2 stars, Downbeat Magazine
2014
Live in NYC:
57th Grammy Awards Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album
4 1/2 stars, Downbeat Magazine
NY Nightlife Award - #1 Outstanding Female Jazz Vocalist
2013
#2 Best Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
#3 Best Female Vocalist - JazzTimes Readers Poll
Judge for 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition
Live in NYC:
#3 - Best Vocal Release - JazzTimes Readers Poll
#8 - Top 10 of Festive CDs of 2013, Jazz Breakfast
2012
Best Female Vocalist Award - Jazz Journalists Association
#2 Best Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
2011
#1 Female Vocalist - JazzTimes Expanded Critics Poll
#1 Rising Star Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
#3 Best Female Vocalist - Downbeat Readers Poll
ASCAP Eunice & Hal David Award of Merit for Songwriting
Best Female Vocalist Nominee - Jazz Journalists Association
Featured on Grammy Award winning Best Jazz Vocal Album, Terri Lyne Carrington, The Mosaic Project
The Lost and Found:
#1 Vocal Album of the Year - iTunes Jazz
#1 Vocal Album of the Year - Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll
#1 Best Album of the Year - JazzFM.com
#1 Album of the Year - Tom Schnabel, KCRW
#1 Album of the Year - Last Call, KIOS-FM
#1 Best Jazz Album of 2011 - Angelika Beener, Alternate Takes
#1 Best Vocal Jazz Album of 2011 - Radio TSF-Jazz Paris
#1 Top Selling Album, 4weeks - iTunes Jazz
#3 STILL Top Selling Singles - iTunes Jazz
#2 Top Selling Jazz Album - Billboard Magazine
#2 Best Jazz of 2011 - NPR A Blog Supreme
#2 Best Jazz Album of 2011 - Amazon Music
#2 Best Jazz Albums of 2011 - Nextbop
#2 Festive Fifty of 2011 - Jazz Breakfast
#4 Album of the Year - John Fordham, The Guardian
#4 Best Selling Album 2011 - iTunes Jazz Music Chart
Top 5 Los Angeles Jazz Albums of 2011 - LA Weekly
#6 Most Read CD Review of 2011 - All About Jazz
#7 Album of the Year - Jazzwise Magazine
10 Best Concerts and Releases of 2011 - The Star, Toronto
Top 10 New Releases of 2011 - KMHD Jazz Radio
Top 25 Albums of 2011 - North Bay Bohemian
Top 40 New Releases of 2011 - JazzTimes
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 - NPR
Top 50 of 2011 - CMJ Jazz Radio Play Chart
Best of the Year - eMusic Jazz
Favorite Jazz Albums of 2011 - AllMusic.com
Best Jazz CDs of 2011 - Jim Wilke, Jazz After Hours
Jamie Cullum Favourites of 2011 - BBC Radio
Best Recordings of 2011 - DC Examiner
Best Albums of 2011 - Aspen Times
Los mejores discos de 2011 - Ocio La Bocina, México
2010
Best Female Vocalist Nominee - Jazz Journalists Association
#2 Rising Star Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
2009
Best Female Vocalist Nominee - Jazz Journalists Association
Rising Star Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
In a Dream:
#1 Vocal Jazz Album of the Year - Village Voice Jazz Critics' Poll
#4 The Top 10 Jazz Albums - Washington CityPaper
#4 Top 10 Killer Covers - JazzTimes
5 Top CD Picks - A Blog Supreme, NPR
#6 Steve Greenlee's Top Jazz Albums for 2009 - Boston Globe
#8 Critics Picks: Top 50 New Albums - JazzTimes
#9 Best Music of 2009 - The Year of Living Improvisationally, NPR
#10 Best Music of 2009 - The Year In Jazz From WDUQ, NPR
Best New Music of the Month - Jazz.com
"Weak": Song of the Day - NPR
2008
Rising Star Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
Gretchen Parlato:
CD Baby Top Seller
2007
Rising Star Female Vocalist - Downbeat Critics Poll
Gretchen Parlato:
CD Baby Top Seller
2006
Gretchen Parlato:
"In a Dream/Footprints" - NPR Song of the Day
CD Baby Top Seller
2005
Gretchen Parlato: (debut CD release July 15)
5 Best Progressive Jazz CDs, Jazz Nation, KPR
CD Baby Top Seller
2004
First place winner - Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition
(Judges: Kurt Elling, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones, Flora Purim, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jimmy Smith)
2003
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Graduation
2001
First vocalist admitted into Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance
(Selection committee: Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard)
1998
Ethnomusicology/Jazz Studies, UCLA - B.A. Degree
1994
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts - graduate