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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
SFJAZZ Collective's latest project featuring new members Chris Potter, Gretchen Parlato, and Kendrick Scott will focus on new compositions by the band inspired by and in response to the extraordinary social and global issues we have faced over the last year. Album and tour coming in Spring 2022.
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE - march 2021
Gretchen Parlato — Renaissance in Bloom
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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