Parlato, Gretchen / In A Dream
Album: In A Dream   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Parlato, Gretchen   Added:Aug 2009
Label:Obliqsound  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-10-04 Pull Date: 2009-12-06 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Nov 22 Nov 15 Nov 1 Oct 25 Oct 18 Oct 11
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Aug 09, 2014: The Proselytizer Radio News Hour
E.S.P.
4. Nov 13, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
I Can't Help It
2. Mar 21, 2014: No Cover, No Minimum
I Can't Help It
5. Oct 30, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum, No Chit-Chat
Doralice
3. Nov 20, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
Doralice
6. Oct 23, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
On The Other Side

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-09-28
GRETCHEN PARLATO: In a Dream
ObliqSound, 2009

JAZZ VOCALS – Intriguing young singer teams up with a great cast of innovative players (Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks, etc.) for a soulful and very different set of modern jazz. Parlato’s intimate, breathy delivery and rhythmically sophisticated approach weaves itself into the fabric of the beautiful, dreamlike music, an echo of Brazil by way of fairyland. Pop, soul, world and singer-songwriter fans should all check this out.

Gretchen Parlato - vocals
Lionel Loueke - guitar & vocals
Aaron Parks - piano, keyboards
Derrick Hodge - acoustic & electric bass
Kendrick Scott - drums

* * * * | Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11

1. 4:49 – wow… Stevie Wonder song: just breathy vocals, mouth perc, guitar
2. 5:34 – deadpan vocal over sparse skittery beat / pretty, flowing breaks
3. 5:02 – infant song into soulful, aching Herbie Hancock tune: wispy, delicate
4. 5:30 – gorgeous r&b ballad: fragile vocal, floating melody… so nice!
5. 3:22 – pretty Brazilian tune with light scatting, handclaps, vocal effects…
6. 5:13 – sweet, lilting piano, wistful vocal; picks up a heavier chamber aspect
7. 4:05 – infant song woven into a pulsing, wordless Wayne Shorter fantasy
8. 4:17 – Duke Ellington ballad: soft, breathy, very intimate with a modern feel
9. 3:58 – sweet, soft sway & layers of quiet vocal rhythm; sparkling keys/guitar
10. 5:10 – surprise! relatively forceful drum beat, whispery soulful vocal
11. 4:19 – shorter, stripped-down edit of #3, a closer yet more open sound

[ Fo ] 09/28/09

Track Listing
1. I Can't Help It   6. Turning Into Blue
2. Within Me   7. E.S.P.
3. Butterfly   8. Azure
4. In A Dream   9. On The Other Side
5. Doralice   10. Weak
  11. Butterfly (Radio Edit)