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"Gretchen Parlato is a singer-arranger of consummate control and slow-burning intensity... lives at the crossroads of sensuous and spiritual, singing from deep within hypnotic grooves with enormous rhythmic sophistication."
— Allen Morrison, Downbeat Magazine
FLOR — #1 iTunes jazz upon release!
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE - march 2021
Gretchen Parlato — Renaissance in Bloom
» FULL ARTICLE @ DOWNBEAT.COM
JAZZWISE MAGAZINE - april 2021
"It's an awakening, a blossoming"
Gretchen Parlato—
Back in Full Bloom
...you hear the voice — that voice,
one of the most dreamily mellifluous timbres in jazz —
is instantly recognizable.
Gretchen Parlato, the Grammy-nominated composer and vocalist,
and one of the most imaginative and inspiring artists on the scene, is back.
And oh, how we’ve missed her.
...her brilliant new Brazilian-flavoured album on Edition is her best yet.
—Peter Quinn, Jazzwise Magazine
FLOR reviews
Gretchen Parlato Flor
— ALL MUSIC
"Flor is a masterpiece...
a welcome and profound return.
Parlato and her collaborators dig under and through stylistic and genre conventions, then emerge with a jazz language of their own that embraces the world's sounds and emotions, and translates them flawlessly with warmth, intimacy, poetry, and humor."
Gretchen Parlato Flor
— ALL ABOUT JAZZ
5 STARS *****
"One of the best vocal jazz albums of recent years —
Gretchen Parlato returns with a masterful album in which she expresses the balance between refinement, lyricism and intact drive...”