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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 Angélika Beener

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GRAMMY-nominated musicians Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke discuss their brand new, long awaited album and how their journey through friendship, decades of collaboration and unprecedented times brought the stunning project to life. We…

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 Nigel Jarrett, Jazz Journal, Oct 07, 2022

When Gretchen Parlato penned the swirls of her chart Circling one wonders if she envisaged what drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington’s band and the planetary guests she assembled for this album…

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…

by Andrew Gilbert, KQED

In the decade following Gretchen Parlato’s triumph at the 2004 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Vocals Competition, she changed the texture of the New York scene.  

Although she only recorded a precious handful of albums…

By Arushi Avachat, Jan 5, 2022

Gretchen Parlato’s “Flor” reflects on blooming into motherhood.

Following the birth of her son, the alumnus and singer said she felt a desire to capture her emotions and experiences through music. The resulting Brazilian-inspired…

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…