- Nate Chinen, The Gig
Edition Records, 2026
Produced by Gretchen Parlato & Alan Hampton
Executive Producer - Dave Stapleton
Gretchen Parlato - Voice
Alan Hampton - Bass, Voice, Guitar
Mark Guiliana - Drums, Percussion
Featuring
Robert Glasper - Piano, Rhodes
Gerald Clayton - Piano, Rhodes, Wurlizter, Celest, Pump Organ
Amber Navran - Voice, Woodwinds, Synthesizers
Meshell Ndegeocello - Voice, Bass
Becca Stevens - Voice, Kora
Josh Mease - Guitar
Jacob Mann - Synthesizers
Max Bryk - Synthesizers
Recorded at Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles, Nov 17 & 21, 2026
Engineered and mixed by Pete Min
Additional engineering: Alan Hampton, Mark Guiliana, Becca Stevens
Mastered by Dave Darlington at Base Hit Recording, New York
“Parlato's approach influenced an entire generation of artists,
and The Wise Ones shows that Parlato herself has no intention of standing still.
It is beautifully made, deeply intimate, and quietly ambitious.”
- Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
As the 2010s dawned, acclaimed singer and composer Gretchen Parlato released a pair of albums that redefined the possibilities of vocal jazz in the post-millennium era. In a Dream (2009) and The Lost and Found (2011) didn’t merely expand the genre—they reshaped its contours, setting a new creative standard that continues to reverberate today. Now, with her eagerly anticipated new album The Wise Ones, Parlato returns to those formative roots, revisiting their kaleidoscopic beauty through a contemporary lens shaped by time, experience, and transformation.
More than a decade of profound personal, artistic, and global change has passed since those recordings, and The Wise Ones reflects both continuity and evolution. The album draws nourishment from the same soil that sustained her early work while allowing new branches to grow—reaching outward with deeper emotional resonance, refined perspective, and renewed curiosity.
