Gretchen Parlato isn’t making her debut. She’s been composing her own tracks and lyrics and dropping her own supple, sweet song since her turn-of-the-century self-titled first album. And yet, with her recently released The Wise Ones, the bossa-inspired mistress of hush, lull and space and her longtime instrumental associates — Robert Glasper, Gerald Clayton, Alan Hampton and Mark Guiliana — Parlato sounds brand new.
A.D. Amorosi