All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ObliqSound "Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Gretchen Parlato at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)...
PUT ME ON IT (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
In A Dream is jazz songstress Gretchen Parlato 's debut release on the ObliqSound label. This incredible album strikes a balance between original tracks and wonderful covers of work by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. But the real testament to the strength of this album is how original the material sounds - the covers have been flipped in...
NPR (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
On this edition of All Songs Considered, we spin some of the year's best new jazz recordings. Bob Boilen talks with WBGO's Josh Jackson, host of Live At the Village Vanguard, a monthly concert series from the legendary New York City jazz club. The two play cuts from some of 2009's standout albums, including "I Can't Help It" (from Gretchen Parlato's In a Dream) and Ben Allison's...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... me away. People like a twenty year old Anthony Wilson, a teenage Dan Lutz, and an off to college Gretchen Parlato come to mind. I saw all of them at the YAJS first, and for a $5.00 cover (students get in for free). Its the best kept secret in town. This month was no exception. I took my seat, had my customary delicious Catalina's beet salad with chicken and then the band came on....
