Vocalist Gretchen Parlato Celebrates 10 Years in New York City with a Live Album & Companion DVD, "Live in NYC", Available Oct 8 on ObliqSound

"It's not her light and feathery voice so much as how she uses it: phrased creatively, on pitch, in ways that request and reward closer attention. It's to her credit that hip young New York musicians are happy to play with Parlato - she's as much a musician as they are." - NPR Music

In the ten years since her arrival in New York City, Gretchen Parlato has emerged as one of the most inventive and mesmerizing vocalists of her generation. In an artful communion of space, texture and a genre-bending repertoire, she has introduced a musical sea-change, making the power of subtlety front and center in jazz.

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GRAMMY Award Winner Robert Glasper Experiment In Concert! [2+ hours of video]

Did you have a great week? Do you need to unwind? Check out the following four videos of the Robert Glasper Experiment performing at London's iTunes Festival in September 2012. 

Piano: Robert Glasper 
Drums: Mark Colenburg 
Bass: Derrick Hodge 
Sax/vocoder: Casey Benjamin

Special guests include Lionel Loueke, Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, Alan Hampton, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Phonte and MF Doom.

The first video (Part 1 of 4) is below. You have to hit Click to read more... to view the other three vids. Thank you!

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Kendrick Scott's Oracle Shows "Conviction" - New CD Drops In March 2013!

FYI: Concord Music Group has the release date of Conviction as 26 March 2013. Amazon.com, however, has the CD coming out on 29 January 2013. Hopefully, it will be available sooner rather than later. ~ DM

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KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE MANIFESTS THE DEEPER PURPOSE ON CONVICTION

KSO's Debut Concord Jazz Release Explores Individual Values and One's Character

With the 2007 release of The Source -- his debut recording as a leader -- drummer and composer Kendrick Scott established a reputation right out of the gate as an explorer, someone with a generous measure of wisdom and insight to counterbalance his youth and newcomer status.

Nearly six years later, Scott and his band continue to dig beneath the surface to find the deeper truths in Conviction, their new CD scheduled for release on Concord Jazz on March 26, 2013 (international release dates may vary). As the title suggests, Conviction is the vehicle by which Kendrick and company look past the mundane and examine the motivating forces that propel us through life, even in those times when the greater truths are obscured by the tedium of the everyday.

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