Gretchen Parlato: 2012 TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival

The 2012 TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival presents

GRETCHEN PARLATO
http://gretchenparlato.com/
with
ERIN PROPP with LARRY ROY & LUKE SELLICK
http://erinpropp.com/

Wednesday, June 20
8:00 pm
West End Cultural Centre
(586 Ellice Ave.)
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Gretchen Parlato’s 2009 sophomore breakthrough, In a Dream, signaled the arrival of an incredibly inventive modern jazz singer. It garnered international acclaim with Billboard magazine hailing it as “the most alluring jazz vocal album of 2009”; it also made it onto the top year-end polls for Jazz Times, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice and NPR. Her follow-up, The Lost and Found, demonstrates that she has staying power with its intensity, exposing a greater dynamic range. On the album, she reinvents R&B songs by Mary J. Blige and Lauryn Hill, but also rearranges Bill Evans’ “Blue in Green” with pianist Robert Glasper.

An alumni of the Thelonious Monk Institute, Parlato has been turning heads ever since she won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Institute International Vocal Competition. Her sultry, intriguing voice and unique, rhythmically agile phrasing come with inescapable centripetal force.

Her originality captivates musicians as well, prompting invitations to appear on over fifty recordings with the likes of Terence Blanchard, Kenny Barron, Terri Lynn Carrington and Esperanza Spalding. Her breathtaking performances have been captured on television in Europe and Japan and she has become a sought after clinician on vocal styling.
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Advance tickets are $32 and are available online http://jazzwinnipeg.com/buy-tickets/, by phone at 989-4656 or in person at the Jazz Winnipeg office (007-100 Arthur St.)