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Vocal Jazz in cooperation with Unlimited Myles, Inc
Gretchen Parlato
| USA
Booking-Agent:
Amaya Collantes
+49 30 261032927
ac@f-cat.de
Over the five years since Gretchen Parlato won the Thelenious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition in 2004, she has become known as an increasingly daring artist, a musician’s vocalist considered a peer by the innovative instrumentalists who accompany her.
Gretchen Parlato´s voice is a thing of wonder. It’s the proverbial bamboo tree, bending but not breaking, something ethereal and delicate yet surgically precise. She crosses borders with the ease and grace of a windborne cloud, having imbibed the musics of several cultures through study and collaboration. Striking the ideal balance between precision and flexibility, she is never predictable, blurring the lines between singer and instrumentalist as she takes a lyric - and at other times improvised flights of wordless fancy - to places it´s never before been. On In a Dream, her debut album for ObliqSound, released 2009, Parlato and her intuitive support team reinvent constantly, Parlato impeccably articulating in a voice so ethereal that the listener might very well feel that he or she is "in a dream."
Coming four years after her self-titled debut, In a Dream finds Parlato embarking on a beguiling journey deep into the heart of both her own compositions and classic material by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and others—all of which she instantly makes her own. Each song emerges as a unique world unto itself, yet there´s an undeniable thread linking them all together.
Aligning with a virtuosic quartet she describes as "inspiring, creative, sensitive, musical souls"—Lionel Loueke on guitar, Aaron Parks on piano and Fender Rhodes, Derrick Hodge on acoustic and electric bass, and drummer Kendrick Scott—Parlato brings the warmth and compelling command of her much-heralded live performances to 10 exquisite new peeks into her artistic personality. In a Dream firmly places Gretchen Parlato in the upper echelon of today´s vocal artists.
Both Hancock and Shorter are already fans. Hancock has said that Parlato has a "deep, almost magical connection to the music," and Shorter has said "in an inconspicuous way, Gretchen plays the same instrument as Frank Sinatra."
In springtime 2010 Gretchen Parlato played some prestigious festivals in Canada and in the USA and in summer she made her debut in Europe performing at some good festivals: North Sea, Molde, Copenhagen festival, Jazzopen Stuttgart. For 2011 there is a new album planned and in May/ June she will be on tour again.
