Gretchen Parlato
Since the early 2000s, award-winning vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato has justly earned a reputation as one of the most inventive and mesmerizing vocalists of her generation. In April 2021, she released Flor, a project honoring her love for and admiration of Brazilian music and her first studio recording in nearly a decade. “This project is a reflection of a time of putting myself aside and being completely present as a mom,” says Parlato. “I’m finally able to find the balance between artistic creativity and nurturing motherhood. My purpose has both a higher and deeper meaning. There is a story to tell, now… of who I am in this role, and how that is reflected in the music.” Her upcoming project, Lean In, is a duo collaboration with guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke and will be released in March 2023 on Edition Records.
Featured on over 85 albums—four as a leader—Gretchen received a Grammy® nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Flor (2021) and Live in NYC (2013) and a coveted 4.5-star review from Downbeat Magazine, with the DVD hitting the No. 1 slot on iTunes’ Best Music Video list. The Lost and Found (2011) received more than 30 national and international awards, including the Downbeat Jazz Critics Poll No. 1 Vocal Album of 2011 and iTunes Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Her 2009 sophomore release, In a Dream, was Jazz Times’ Critics Poll Vocal Album of 2009 and hailed by Billboard as “the most alluring jazz vocal album of 2009.”
June 2022
Past Events
Tribute to Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra
with special guests Billie Eilish, Debbie Harry, Dianne Reeves, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Seth MacFarlane, Bettye LaVette, and Gretchen Parlato
