Parlato was the first vocalist ever admitted into the program. In 2001 she was accepted into the Thelonious MonkInstitute of Jazz Performance by a panel of judges including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, and Wayne Shorter. Parlato attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, then earned a bachelor's degree in Ethnomusicology/Jazz Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Growing up in the 1980s, Parlato says she was a Valley girl. Her grandfather was Charlie Parlato, a trumpeter in the Kay Kyser Big Band, and singer and trumpeter for Tennessee Ernie Ford and Lawrence Welk.
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He also worked with Al Jarreau, Don Preston, Barbra Streisand, Henry Mancini, Paul Horn, Gabor Szabo, Buddy Rich, Don Ellis, and recorded for TV and film. Parlato was born in 1976 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Dave Parlato, a bass player for Frank Zappa. Jazz at Filoli, Woodside, California, March 2015 1 Vocal Album of 2009 and hailed by Billboard as 'the most alluring jazz vocal album of 2009.' Īs of 2013, Parlato is a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Her 2009 sophomore release, In a Dream, was Jazz Critics Poll No. 1 Vocal Album of 2011 and iTunes Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. The Lost and Found (2011) received over 30 national and international awards, including Jazz Critics Poll No. Parlato's Live in NYC (2013) received a Grammy Award Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, also receiving 4.5 stars in Downbeat Magazine, with the DVD hitting No. She has performed and recorded with musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Barron, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller and Lionel Loueke. Gretchen Parlato (born Februin Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz singer. Sitson brings a unique African rhythm and melody to this album of original compositions, with a strikingly broad range from Afro-jazz to post-bop. A master of the music of both the voice and the human body, Cameroon-born Gino Sitson is perhaps the most versatile vocalist in jazz today.
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