With guests including Robert Glasper, Parlato turns her immaculate phrasing to soft funk, dancefloor numbers and interpretations of Stevie Wonder and Tears for Fears
Hearing Gretchen Parlato’s spellbinding version of the Herbie Hancock song Butterfly was unforgettable when the eloquent…
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Gretchen Parlato redefined jazz singing by adding touch of soul, R&B, pop, Brazilian music and other genres into her style. She continues pushing boundaries on The Wise Ones. The creative arrangements, Parlato’s vocal approach and an all-star…
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By Will Layman
In a world that features billion-dollar pop divas (you know their names) and incredibly creative and technically dazzling jazz musicians (you have never heard the names of all but a tiny few), singer-songwriter Gretchen Parlato sits in…
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By Thierry De Clemensat, Paris-Move
Gretchen Parlato returns with The Wise Ones, an intimate contemporary jazz album featuring Robert Glasper, Alan Hampton and Becca Stevens, blending jazz, soul, pop and Brazilian influences with remarkable sensitivity.
"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…
