"The combination of skill and artistry that has characterized her career is on full display in the songs from her latest album, The Wise Ones."
Gretchen Parlato won the Thelonious Monk Institute's 2004 International Vocal Competition, and no one who's…
Read moreThe coolly aerated vocal style that Gretchen Parlato brought to modern jazz in the mid-aughts — laid-back yet locked-in, with Brazilian and R&B influences finding common cause with the enlightened Herbie-and-Wayne cohort — created a lane so routinely traveled that…
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“has the same spell-weaving qualities of her earlier vocal work: a close-to-the-mic intimate timbre, immaculate jazz phrasing and faultless pitching and intonation.”
by David Shiers, 8/28/2026 - UK Jazz News
Some fifteen years after her award-winning breakthrough album, In…
