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The Year's Best New Jazz

October 19, 2009 • We spin some of the year's best new jazz recordings on this week's show. Bob talks with Josh Jackson, host of Live At the Village Vanguard, and the two play cuts from some of 2009's standout albums.

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Gretchen Parlato, The Cookers On JazzSet

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Gretchen Parlato, The Cookers On JazzSet

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August 7, 2014 • The 2012 Caramoor Jazz Festival presents everything from young artists making their marks to established stars still shining bright. We highlight singer Gretchen Parlato and hard bop band The Cookers.

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Newport Jazz Festival

Gretchen Parlato: Newport Jazz 2010

WGBH Radio

August 7, 2010 • Parlato uses her light and feathery voice in ways that request and reward further attention. A group that is happy to accompany her appears here at the CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival.

Gretchen Parlato: Newport Jazz 2010

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The Best Music Of 2009

The Year In Jazz, From WDUQ

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December 23, 2009 • Many younger artists are making a strong case to be the future of the genre — and the future looks bright. All but three musicians on Shaunna Morrison Machosky's Top 10 list are under the age of 40, and they all brush aside any notion of jazz being in a rut.

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Favorite Sessions

Gretchen Parlato: Living 'In A Dream'

WBGO

September 15, 2009 • Parlato defies easy categorization as a vocalist. She has a gift for being just a member of the band, a role reserved for few singers. She has what it takes to live up to the expectation and level of performance of her contemporaries. In a session from WBGO, she performs songs from In a Dream.

Gretchen Parlato In Studio On WBGO's The Checkout 8/17/09

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Gretchen Parlato: Jazz From Soul

July 20, 2009 • Superbly re-arranged by pianist Robert Glasper, Parlato's cover of SWV's "Weak" receives a rhythmic pulse that's elastic and pneumatic by comparison, sometimes evoking the feel of bossa nova. Along the way, Parlato conveys a level of maturity in her sensual but no-frills delivery.

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A Rising Star Makes a Worldly Jam

June 1, 2006 • With so much emphasis on virtuosity in jazz, artists who pare their musical arsenals down to the soul-baring essentials usually prove the most alluring. Such is the case with Gretchen Parlato, who taps into Wayne Shorter's adventurism with her thoughtful lyrics, which touch on the joys of inward search.

Gretchen Parlato, Conrad Herwig On JazzSet

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Concerts

Gretchen Parlato, Conrad Herwig On JazzSet

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April 28, 2011 • From two stages at the Newport Jazz Festival, hear a gifted young singer and the Latin side of Herbie Hancock.

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The Checkout: Live

Tillery: Live In Concert

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September 27, 2011 • Three of today's top jazz vocalists keep open lines to singer-songwriter folk and modern R&B. Together, Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens sing and strum their trio arrangements of original tunes and select covers.

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A Blog Supreme

The Best Jazz Of 2011

December 9, 2011 • Here are 10 examples of radical imagination, and radical re-imagination, in a great year for jazz.

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2011

50 Favorites Of 2011: F-J

December 5, 2011 • In 2011, Frank Ocean sang hooks for Jay-Z and Kanye West, wrote for Beyoncé, toured with Odd Future and still managed to release the smoothest R&B album we've heard in a while. We enjoyed opera's return to form with vibrant young tenor Joseph Calleja and fell in love with a rock opera from a band whose name we're not even allowed to say on NPR. The list of our 50 favorite records of 2011 continued with Frank Ocean, F----- Up and more artists from F to J.

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The Mix

The Mix: Jazz In The Present Tense

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June 20, 2011 • Beginning June 25, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman, Cyrus Chestnut and many more jazz artists will descend on Montreal for one of the largest music festivals in the world. Hear what all the fuss is about in this mix of songs from musicians performing at the event.

NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums Of 2011 (So Far)

25 Favorites: From F---- Up To Julianna Barwick

June 14, 2011 • If you're looking for the best of 2011 in virtually every major musical genre, here's a good starting point. The list of our 25 favorite albums of the year (so far) continues with Jill Scott and more artists from F to J.

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Music Articles

Gretchen Parlato: Stay In The Moment

April 30, 2011 • The jazz singer has just released her third album, The Lost and Found. She says that after belting her vocals in the past, she took time to fine-tune the best style for her own voice.

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Gretchen Parlato: Master Of Restraint

April 19, 2011 • Probably best known for her work with the Grammy-winning jazz star Esperanza Spalding, the singer crafts something profound on The Lost and Found.

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First Listen

First Listen: Gretchen Parlato, 'The Lost And Found'

March 27, 2011 • Soft and insistent, breathy and sometimes wordless, she doesn't have the voice of Ella, or Sarah, or Betty. But she doesn't need it; on her third album, she's got plenty of that slippery, you-know-it-when-you-hear-it quality often abbreviated "musicality."

Interview And Live Chat With Gretchen Parlato

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A Blog Supreme

Interview And Live Chat With Gretchen Parlato

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March 28, 2011 • The crafty, sotto voce jazz vocalist's new album is out soon. Hear it all as part of NPR Music's First Listen series, then join us for a live discussion, listening session and online web chat Monday, April 4 at 1 p.m. ET.

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Concerts

Edward Simon's Afinidad On JazzSet

WBGO

June 10, 2010 • At the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Ark., Edward Simon premieres a new jazz work, Sorrows and Triumphs. Featuring vocalist Gretchen Parlato and saxophonist David Binney, it's a contemplative piece based on Simon's life as a Buddhist.

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