Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album
Terri Lyne Carrington's - The Mosaic Project
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Gretchen Parlato - Best Female Vocalist!
— JazzTimes 2011 Expanded Critics Poll

I'm humbled and grateful for this recogition...
#1 Female Vocalist -
    —JazzTimes 2011 Expanded Critics Poll
#1 Rising Star Female Vocalist -
    —Downbeat Critics Poll
#1 Vocal Album of the Year - iTunes Jazz
#1 Vocal Album of the Year » 2011 Jazz Critics Poll
#1 Best Album of the Year - JazzFM.com
#1 Album of the Year - Tom Schnabel, KCRW
#1 Album of the Year - Last Call, KIOS-FM
#1 Best Jazz Album of 2011 » Angelika Beener, Alternate Takes
#1 Best Vocal Jazz Album of 2011 - Radio TSF-Jazz Paris
#2 Best Jazz of 2011 » NPR A Blog Supreme
#2 Best Jazz Album of 2011 - Amazon Music
#2 Best Jazz Albums of 2011 - Nextbop
#2 Festive Fifty of 2011 » Jazz Breakfast, UK
#3 Best Female Vocalist - Downbeat Readers Poll
#4 Album of the Year - John Fordham, The Guardian
#4 Best Selling Album - Musicchart: iTunes jazz
Top 5 Los Angeles Jazz Albums of 2011 » LA Weekly
#6 Most Read CD Review of 2011 - All About Jazz
#7 Album of the Year » Jazzwise Magazine, UK
Top 10 New Releases of 2011 » KMHD Jazz Radio
10 Best Concerts and Releases of 2011 » The Star, Toronto
Top 25 Albums of 2011 - North Bay Bohemian
Top 40 New Releases of 2011 - JazzTimes
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 » NPR Music
Top 50 of 2011 - CMJ Jazz Radio Play Chart
Best of the Year » eMusic Jazz
Favorite Jazz Albums of 2011 - AllMusic
Best Jazz CDs of 2011 » Jim Wilke, Jazz After Hours
Jamie Cullum Favourites of 2011 - BBC Radio, UK
Best Recordings of 2011 - DC Examiner
Best Albums of 2011 - Aspen Times
Los mejores discos de 2011 » Ocio La Bocina, México
Eunice & Hal David Award of Merit, Songwriting - ASCAP Awards
Female Singer of the Year nominee - Jazz Journalists Assoc
Featured on Terri Lyne Carrington's Grammy Award winning
The Mosaic Project

Friday, March 9 @ 10pm
- with special guest Becca Stevens

"It's like we are two voices completing each other. Gretchen is my musical soul mate." » more

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Gretchen Parlato is honored to receive
The ASCAP Foundation
Eunice & Hal David Award

ASCAP Awards Ceremony
Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
Wed, Dec 7

Gretchen Parlato is honored to perform
The Ertegün Jazz Series
Turkish Embassy, Ambassador's Residence
Washington, DC — Tues, Dec 6

Gretchen Parlato — #3 Best Female Vocalist
Downbeat Magazine Readers Poll - December 2011 issue.

Gretchen Parlato —
#1 Rising Star Female Vocalist !!
Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll - August 2011 issue.
» critics poll winners

NPR Music's 25 Favorite Albums of 2011 (so far)
Gretchen Parlato, 'The Lost and Found'
Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR, Jun 14, 2011
"The most interesting thing about The Lost and Found, Parlato's third and best album so far, is that she plays well with others — that she can marshal this original sound within a real band. It's catchy, tuneful stuff that vibrates with the pulse of modern music — by which I mostly mean the strains of R&B into which hip-hop has dug deep roots — while retaining the real-time interaction and harmolodic richness of jazz, circa 2011." » more

The 25 essential New York City jazz icons
TimeOut, New York
"18. Gretchen Parlato made leading figures like Wayne Shorter, Terence Blanchard & Kenny Barron into enthusiastic fans... has overturned clichés to make jazz singing cool again." » more

Female Singer of the Year nominee
Jazz Journalists Awards
Sat, June 11 » LIVE webcast 1pm edt

Photos — Gretchen Parlato
digs deep at the Caverns
by Jati Lindsay and Giovanni Russonello, Apr 20, 2011
"Gretchen Parlato is one of the most closely watched and creative contemporary musicians making their mark on the national and international jazz scenes. At times, Parlato can seem to be singing simply in the language of the human body, pointedly rhythmic but weightlessly melodic in a way that evokes the heart beating, or blood flowing. " » more at CapitalBop

bestnote iTunes Best Music:
iTunes #music_jazz #23 song: Holding Back the Years - GretchenParlato © 2011 ObliqSound

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Top Jazz Album!

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Gretchen has been selected to be a recipient of the American Masterpieces Past Midnight Tour by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. » more info

GP has been nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for Female Singer of the Year!

Howard Mandel, president of the JJA: "The finalists for 2010 Jazz Awards reflect the depth of talent and breadth of styles that jazz encompasses today. Highly creative octogenarians... are celebrated alongside new-generation musicians...
» more info & full list @JazzTimes

"...no better example of whom is Gretchen Parlato...
» more @ JazzHouston

— Soul Matters Magazine » more

In a Dream in top 25 albums » more @ The Wire

In a Dream #1 - 2009 Jazz Critics Poll
Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year! » more

In a Dream #4 - Washington City Paper
The Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2009 » more

In a Dream #6: Boston Globe
Top Jazz Albums for 2009 » more

In a Dream #8: JazzTimes Critics Picks
Top 50 New Albums of 2009 » more

In a Dream #9: NPR Best Music of 2009:
The Year Of Living Improvisationally » more

In a Dream #10: NPR Best Music of 2009:
The Year In Jazz, From WDUQ » more

In a Dream: NPR's Ten Great Moments
From Jazz Recordings In 2009 » more

In a Dream: Jazzhouse Diaries Top 3 Vocal Jazz
Best Jazz Discs of 2009 » more

Bob Boilen talks with WBGO's Josh Jackson, host of Live At the Village Vanguard, on NPR's All Songs Considered, and select "In a Dream" as one of 2009's top standout albums.

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on NPR's pics of the
year's best new jazz