#Gretchen Parlato

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Formwela 8 by Esperanza Spalding from the album SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB

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Hozier Reveals Song Picks for Weddings, Rainy Days, Train Rides & More

he made a playlist for us!

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Magnus

 　ハッとするほど美しいジャケがとにかく鮮烈で、タイトルもポルトガル語で花を意味するのだという。パーラトによると、このタイトルを選んだのにはいくつかの理由があるのだという。花はその種が地上で誕生し開花するが、その種は地中にあり、地上で開花するための準備を着々と整えて長い時間を経た後に花を咲かせる。そのプロセスに子育てに専念する中で音楽が熟成され、このようにアルバムを発表する自分を共通するものを感じたのが理由として一点なのだという。そして、もう一点は花がとても多くの意味を持っていると感じているからなのだという。私たちは花に喜びや悲しみを託し、花はそうした人々の気持ちをとても繊細に、しかも強く伝える役割を果たしている。そのようなイメージをこのアルバムから感じてほしいのだという。一曲目「É Preciso Perdoar」は夢見心地な気分にさせてくれる楽曲である。二曲目「Sweet Love」はソウル歌手アニタ・ベイカーのカバー曲である。三曲目「Magnus」はパーラトの親友がお腹に宿した子供に対して歌っていた子守唄のメロディーをもとにして作曲したのだという。四曲目「Rosa」はクラシック調の曲である。五曲目「What Does a Lion Say?」はパーラトが「ライオンってどんな声を出すの？」と息子に聞くと、息子が吠え声を返すという遊びをしていた頃の感動と喜び、戸惑いに満ちた美しい記憶を歌っている。六曲目「Roy Allan」は故ロイ・ハーグローヴに捧げた楽曲でサンバ調である。七曲目「Wonderful」は本アルバムのハイライトで「私もあなたもみんな素晴らしい」というシンプルでありながら、大人になるにつれて忘れてしまうメッセージを歌っており、感動した。八曲目「Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007 Minuet I II」はチェロ奏者ヨー・ヨー・マを彷彿とさせるような音程の正確さで歌っており改めてパーラトの技術力の高さが窺える楽曲である。九曲目「No Plan」はデヴィッド・ボウイの「★（ブラックスター）」からインスピレーションを受けた死の雰囲気を漂わせた楽曲となっている。

　前作「Live in Nyc」に感動し、その後ポスト・パーラトを探し続け、そしてこのアルバムが発売され、「グレッチェンパーラトを超えられるのはグレッチェンパーラトしかいない！」という結論に至った。次回作も期待したい。

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(2021)

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If I Knew (feat. Burniss Travis & Mark Guiliana)

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Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 1 odcinek 5]

premierowa emisja 29 marca 2023 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Hannah Griffin, Thomas Voyce, Norman Meehan “Homing In” z albumu  “Wahine” – Rattle Records Kerkko Koskinen, Linda Fredriksson & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra “Anime” z albumu “Agatha 2” – We Jazz Records Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke “Walking After You” z albumu “Lean In” – Edition Records Alberto Forino “Beautiful are Those who Fall” z…

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Gretchen Parlato

Happy birthday, Gretchen Parlato!

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harry kane x “holding back the years” by gretchen parlato

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I don't often do this, but I feel like I should start being more open about my ocs lol. Might help with my cringe culture conditioning.

Anyway, here are my BB ocs (so far!)

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🎶 Luna Elise Fitzgerald

Birthdate is February 20th, 1955. 16 in her first appearance in fic, 43 by BB2K.

Face Claim: Lorna Luft (That is her in Grease 2, which released just 2 years after TBB)

Occupation: Music Teacher

Gender/Sexuality: Cis Female, Straight

Five Key Traits: Gentle, Organized, Loud, Loyal, Positive

Three Fun Facts

Has perfect pitch. Since her ambitions used to be rather humble, she saved it for parties and her students. She can also play quite a few instruments due to this, though prefers the piano.

Loves wearing sun hats, as her mother has a huge collection of them. It makes her feel close to her as they live cities apart. She has quite a few, including one or two from her mother's collection.

Loves to bake more than cook--she tends to stress bake as a consequence. Loves baking cakes the most--her favorite to bake is chocolate forest and cheesecake.

Name Origins: In universe her name is due to her deceased father, who was a literature professor and studier of mythologies. He loved the olden works of Virgil, and found the name Luna in his work Georgics. He and Luna’s mom loved this name a lot and gave it to her. There’s also a secret reason, but that’ll be revealed hehe. for irl, I thought it’d be neat for her to have a fantasical name like Elwood does. Her last name comes from the jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald.

Love Interest: Elwood J. Blues

📚 Gretchen "Etta" Sophia Carter

Birthdate is May 25th, 1956. Her first "appearance" would put her at 24 as she's sort of in tbb, but her first real appearance is at 34.

Face Claim: Jessica Harper (that's an image of her in 1990, the year Etta and Jake met)

Occupation: Author, freelance editor (mainly for magazines and novels). Previously an English tutor and diner cook.

Gender/Sexuality: Cis Female, Bisexual

Five Key Traits: Understanding, Passionate, Ambitious, Articulate, and Humble

Three Fun Facts

Has been writing a poetry/short fiction mixed book on and off for years. It's her true passion, to write books... perhaps she'll be able to publish it soon.

Very well read. Originally wanted to be a professor at Columbia, but ultimately decided against it as getting her bachelors was hard for several reasons. She debates sometimes whether or not it was the right decision.

Loves to cook after writing. Finds it calming and endearing as she loves learning new recipes and loves making people happy through food. It's the easiest thing for her. Due to this, she used to be a cook at a diner in her younger years before doing freelance.

Name Origins: In universe, she's named after her maternal grandmother who was a famous actress. It wasn't out of the best intentions, but that's all I'll say for now. She gave herself the nickname Etta as she disliked the name Gretchen and felt it didn't fit her vibe at all--though she does respect her grandma. She does at least like the meaning though. In irl, she's named after two singers: Gretchen Parlato, and Betty Carter. Etta James actually wasn't the inspiration for her nickname, I just felt it'd fit her. It just came as a plus lol. Also, her original last name was actually Jones, but then I found out there was an actual Etta Jones (a jazz singer, too!) so I had to change it lol.

Love Interest: Jake E. Blues

⭐ Katerina "Kat, Kitty" Anita Carter

Birthdate is November 18th, 1990. She's 15 1/2 in her first appearance (Summer 2006 is when the fic takes place)

Face Claim: Erm... (I find finding face claims for fan kids extremely hard, plus there's a lot of specifics to me that make narrowing down a face claim difficult. All I can really say is that she looks a lot more like her dad, with only a few of Etta's genes surviving the war. It's what Etta would prefer, anyway)

Occupation: Student, eventual Blues Brothers member

Gender/Sexuality: Cis Female, Bisexual

Five Key Traits: Passionate, Witty, Outspoken, Caring, and Courageous

Three Fun Facts:

On top of her love for the blues, she also loves punk and rock. Secret love for 2000s musicians too lol (like Britney Spears or Avril Lavigne)

Has a huge sweet tooth, inherited from her mother. Combined with a hard time brushing her teeth equals quite a few cavities in the past. Can't stop won't stop lol. She does get better at brushing with time, god bless

Was reading at college level by sixth grade. If she wasn't so shit at math, she probably would've been placed in advanced courses...

Name Origins: In universe, I'm keeping it just a bit of a mystery as to how Kat's name was workshopped as it’ll be revealed later. I can say her mother, Gretchen, really loved Anna Karenina. However, she didn’t want her name to be a full on reference to the book. Katerina was born! This isn’t a spoiler cause it’s subtly revealed in the first chapter lol, but her middle name, Anita, is from Anita O'day. Irl, tbh I really liked how Katerina sounded, plus I love characters that have long fancy names but prefer nicknames (thus, Kat). plus, I wanted the name to have Kat in it somewhere so she could eventually get the nickname "Kitty” (no bearing on my own nickname, I'm not projecting that hard) as many blues and jazz singers get that nickname. As mentioned in her mother's profile, her last name comes from Betty Carter.

Love Interest: Heh... wouldn't you like to know (it's a secret! No it's not Buster btw ew)

🖊️ Georgia "G, George" Louise Smith

Birthdate is June 18th, 1988. 17, nearly 18 in her first appearance

Face Claim: Erm... (She's not a fankid however since I can't find a fc for Kat, I decided to let Georgia be faceless as well)

Occupation: Student, eventually band/social media manager

Gender/Sexuality: Cis Female, queer/sapphic leaning

Five Key Traits: Organized, Shy, Polite, Calm, and Optimistic

Three Fun Facts

A big lover of boy bands. Collects posters and memorabilia. Never grows out of this, either--she'd be insane over Backstreet Boys coming back for example. She also heavily prefers 2000s musicians and Y2K culture. Jokingly debates with Kat about whether or not tbb are a boy band (Kat insists on being included despite not being a boy)

Despite being older, she views Kat as the older sister in their sisterhood. While more responsible, Kat is much more leader-oriented and outspoken than her. She's even taller than Kat by several inches but due to Kat's loud personality she's always felt small compared to her. She's a little envious of this.

Due to being entrenched in current trends, she also keeps up-to-date with social media and has a small following. Uses Myspace a lot, will eventually have at least two accounts on almost every social media. One personal, one tbb business

Name Origins: In universe, Georgia wasn't named by her parents. Instead she was named by the nurse who found her, as she was abandoned at a hospital. Smith is more or less a common last name she was assigned, as the nurse didn't want to become too attached to her </3 Unlike the other ladies on this list, irl Georgia wasn't named after any particular singer. She's instead named after a song, the famous "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" due to Kat's perceived influence on her (also "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles is a plus) And yes, this will be mentioned/joked upon... eventually.

Love Interest: Only God knows atp

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Listen to Permutations 7/8/2023 byPermutations on hearthis.at

My WVUD playlist and stream, 7/8/2023

Tony Allen, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Oladipo The Shaolin Afronauts - Rumba Cyclique Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke - If I Knew (feat. Burniss Travis & Mark Guiliana) Dele Sosimi - Ẹ Si M'ẹ̀dọ̀ (feat. Lizzy Dosunmu) Parbleu - Je Le Ferai Captain Planet - Kité Soufè (feat. David Walters) Secret Night Gang - Do for You Stevie Wonder - Do I Do African Head Charge - Passing Clouds Cat Kin Cool - Havana MNTH - Afoshot Saroos - Thicket Brian Eno - I Fall Up Holy Tongue - Susuro Mong Tong - Tropic Sub Steve Shehan - Blue Nile Goat - The Gate Is Open (The Temple Lies Within) Vangelis - Stuffed Tomato Selvhenter - L.A. Talking Heads - Cities (Live) Thompson Twins - Politics Dennis Bovell - Heaven Way of the West - Don't Say That's Just for White Boys The Bahama Soul Club - Rui’s Garage

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fanmix myself, 2023 edition

genuinely almost can't believe i have TWO of these on here now (i do one of these every two years ish.) time really does pass huh... ANYWAY here's the link, and full tracklist under the cut, plus me rambling :) please talk to me about any of these songs my little brain will esplode

a song you like with a color in the title: forever yellow skies by the cranberries

a song you like with a number in the title: 10,000 emerald pools by børns

a song that reminds you of summertime: rain king by counting crows (literally the album of visiting my fiance the summer after i graduated college. song of joy and also freedom)

a song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about: all the small things by blink 182 (no i don't want to talk about it)

a song that needs to be played LOUD: bulls in the bronx by pierce the veil (i'm in agony but this song is so good)

a song that makes you want to dance: genghis khan by miiike snow (obviously)

a song to drive to: one week by the barenaked ladies (specifically if you're stuck in traffic. bnl are really good at making songs that are good for listening to in really bad traffic somehow)

a song about drugs or alcohol: home again garden grove by the mountain goats (had this one on repeat for about 2 weeks straight somewhat recently)

a song that makes you happy: tunak tunak tun by daler mehndi (also had this one on repeat recently. the vibes are immaculate)

a song that makes you sad: in corolla by the mountain goats (self explanatory)

a song that you never get tired of: awake my soul by mumford and sons (this is on one of the first albums i ever bought with my own money and i still never skip it to this day. it's SO good.)

a song from your preteen years: my song from angel beats… the memories of playing minecraft on the family computer with the angel beats songs playing in the background are SO strong...

one of your favorite 80’s songs: i wanna dance with somebody by whitney houston

a song that you would love played at your wedding: run away with me adam neely cover (my fiance introduced me to this song and it's honestly one of the Very Few songs he likes that i genuinely love lmao)

a song that is a cover by another artist: BILLY COBB hide and seek (ignore that the previous song is also a cover lol. billy cobb does some of my favorite covers of all time. i've lost count of how many times i've played this, running up that hill, and linger honestly)

one of your favorite classical songs: edward elgar's cello concerto!!! specifically as played by jacqueline du pre (i'm NOT sorry for the length. listen!!!!! it's so so so so so good!!!)

a song from the year that you were born: how's it going to be by third eye blind (literally the way he shouts at the end is top vocals of all time imo)

a song that makes you think about life: the times they are a-changin by bob dylan (the first time i heard this song it was simon and garfunkel's cover and let me tell you. it fucked me up. listened to it probably 10 times in a row)

a song that has many meanings to you: wish you were here by pink floyd (song of very potent memories plus the actual song is like. woof. plus the double hit combo. you know how it is)

a favorite song with a person’s name in the title: jenny was a friend of mine by the killers (self explanatory. this song fucks.)

a song that moves you forward: hark to the music by ezra furman

a song that you think everybody should listen to: foundations of decay by my chemical romance (hello!! obviously)

a song by a band you wish were still together: tumble by stabilo (i have so many thoughts about this song it needs its own separate post also this is my favorite band that no one cares about)

a song by an artist no longer living: paradise by the dashboard light by meat loaf (my curse of getting into someone and then they die 2 years later continues with this man)

a song that makes you want to fall in love: better than by gretchen parlato (this one doesn't make me want to fall in love as much as it reminds me of a time when i was falling in love. close enough.)

a song that breaks your heart: addict with a pen by twenty one pilots

a song by an artist with a voice that you love: dead of night by orville peck (first song of his i ever heard and one of my top 3 of his still. his voice is EVERYTHING in this song, i fell in love instantly.)

a song that you remember from your childhood: i need you to love me by barlowgirl (... i have issues.)

a song that reminds you of yourself: midnight by tyler glenn (the issues strike again. genuinely cried the first time i listened to this song lol)

[mreiyouscience]

　芸術にはある種の神話が含まれているように思います。それはジャズにも当てはまるのではないかと思います。では、本作における神話とは何でしょうか？それは癒しや愛情、思いやりなのです。

　翻って、深淵な歌声としなやかなリズム感覚をフェーズさせ、独自のヴォーカルで人気のグレッチェン・パーラトとリズムやハーモニーが洗練されているうえ、感情表現のレヴェルや精神性が高いことによって、演奏がとてもサポーティブである一方で、野心的で感情に訴える演奏をするので、音楽を未知のエリアに引っ張ってくれるようなリスクを恐れない点が魅力のリオーネル・エルケとのデュオ・アルバムが制作されたことはある意味必然であったといえるかもしれません。なぜなら、バークリー等の名門音大でも受けられないような充実したプログラムが用意されているセロニアス・モンク・インスティテュート（TMI）に進んだ同期として、20年以上の信頼関係を築いているからです。ですから、以前から「デュオ・アルバムを作ろう！」という話はあったそうですが、二人とも自分の活動に忙しく、これまでアルバムとして形になることはありませんでした。そうした中でグレッチェンとリオーネ　　ルは学生時代からの20年を超える関係性をクリエイティブでありつつも、どこか優しさも感じさせるデュオ・アルバムを制作する過程で、テーマはタイトル曲「Lean In」にあるように愛と共感、相互理解の精神をもって世界中の人々と寄り添い合おうというものになったのだといいます。

　続いて、各楽曲についてお話ししたいと思います。1曲目「アクエ」はリオーネルが展開するトリオ「ジルフィマ」の2005年ファースト作からのアレンジとなっています。2曲目「アイ・ミス・ユー」は女性R&Bグループ「クライマックス」の1985年のヒットカバーなのだそう。3曲目「イフ・アイ・ニュー」は「現在の自分を知った状態で過去に戻ることができたとして、過去を変えてみたいと思えるか？」ということは歌っているのだそうです。グレッチェンによると、幸運や不運、明や暗、善や悪が重なり合って流れていく私たちの時代は決して答えのない疑問であふれているように思えるのだといいます。4曲目「オカグべ・インタルード」はインタルードです。5曲目「アストロナウタ」は1969年にエリス・レジーナが歌ったテイクで有名なブラジルの曲です。6曲目「ミ・ワ・セー・インタルード」はインタルードです。7曲目「ミューズ」はグレッチェンの自作曲です。定番のハンドクラップをしながらの歌唱でメランコリックな旋律を歌い上げています。ただし、そこにリオーネルの反復する声とギター、パーカッションが加わると、何とも言えないフィーリングが宿るように感じます。8曲目「ノンヴィニョン」は兄弟愛を意味しているのだといいます。歌詞にあるように「僕たちはみんな一つのファミリー。僕たちにはハートがあって、イマジネーションがある。それを発揮してお互いに助け合おう」というステキなメッセージが込められています。9曲目「リーン・イン」はパンデミックのシャットダウン中に経験した心の動きを歌ったものだといいます。曲中では家に閉じこもり、世界から隔絶された場面からスタートし、次第に自分の心の中を見つめるというプラスの方向に進んでいきます。その後、他者を救うことが自分の救済であると悟り、諦めや絶望の克服へとつながっていく様を歌っています。10曲目「ペインフル・ジョイ」はリオーネルの新曲となっています。スティング辺りを想起させるメランコリックな曲でリオーネルもシンプルな演奏で珍しく”ギターリストらしいギター演奏”を聴かせます。グレッチェンの切ない歌声のために書かれたようなメロディーが美しく、リオーネルのイメージが覆るようなそんな曲です。11曲目「ドゥ・ウェ・インタルード」はインタルードです。12曲目「ウォーキング・アフター・ユー」は「フ―・ファイターズ」のカバー曲です。

　最後に音楽性について。グレッチェンの原点ともいえる色彩豊かなブラジル・アフリカ音楽をベースに、アコースティックギターだけで恐ろしくリズミックにグルーヴするリオーネルの伴奏の上でグレッチェンのコケティッシュで幻想的な声とリオーネルの落ち着いた声が絡み合い、オーガニックにして極めて現代的でもある世界を表現できるのはグレッチェンとリオーネルの学生時代からの20年以上にわたる信頼関係による部分も多いように感じました。

Gretchen Parlato - Live in NYC: BUTTERFLY

Gretchen Parlato - Live in NYC: WEAK

Wonderful

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Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke Lean In

Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke Lean In Edition Although the duo of vocalist-arranger Gretchen Parlato and guitarist-vocalist Lionel Loueke have performed together relatively often and have contributed to each other’s projects, Lean In is their inaugural recording. Written during the pandemic on two different continents, the project evolved between Luxembourg and Los Angeles, where the two…