Thursday 11 November 2010
GRETCHEN PARLATO
IN A DREAM
Gretchen Parlato vocals, Aaron Parks piano, Alan Hampton bass, Otis Brown III drums
With her calm, exceptional voice Gretchen Parlato makes each song her own. On her recent album ‘In a Dream’, the American vocalist interprets compositions by Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock among others. These last two have been fans from day one; Hancock describes her hushed vocal approach as ‘magical’. ‘Parlato’s drifting lullabies, whispered calypsos and rare talent for imparting emotional weight to scat lines reveal a star in the wings’ (The Guardian).