obliqsound records, 2013
a live performance cd & dvd
produced by gretchen parlato
Grammy Nominee - Best Jazz Vocal Album
4.5 stars Downbeat Magazine
produced by gretchen parlato
* CD tracks 1, 3, 4, 6:
taylor eigsti - piano, keyboards
alan hampton - bass
mark guiliana - drums
** CD tracks 2, 7, 8, 9:
taylor eigsti - piano, keyboards
burniss earl travis II - bass
kendrick scott - drums
DVD:
1. weak **
2. butterfly *
3. alô alô *
4. better than **
“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
"From 10,000 feet, Live in NYC is a study in suspension. Parlato puts her voice and phrasing into the ether, seemingly where it exists attached to nothing. Pianist Taylor Eigsti and the band accomplish very much the same thing: sound untethered, floating among one another. The effect is one of spacial disconnection, with each voice easily isolated and heard. But when these disparately sounding elements are brought together and managed in the same time space (and at a given tempo and signature), it all makes sonic sense...very progressive sonic sense."
— C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz