Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke at Jimmy’s

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉. 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅…”
— 𝑫𝑶𝑾𝑵𝑩𝑬𝑨𝑻 𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑨𝒁𝑰𝑵𝑬

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝟐𝟎-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝟐𝐱-𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐘® 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳 𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐎 & 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 & 𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐄𝐊𝐄 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 ‘𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧’.

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠, 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑤𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦,” 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑜.

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎’𝐬, 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐎 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. In 2021, she released ‘FLOR’, a project honoring her love and admiration of Brazilian music and her first studio recording in nearly a decade. The album earned Gretchen her second GRAMMY® Award Nomination for “Best Jazz Vocal Album”. Featured on over 85 albums, and four as a leader, Gretchen received her first GRAMMY® Award Nomination for ‘Live in NYC’ (2013) and a coveted 4.5 star review from Downbeat Magazine with the DVD hitting No. 1 on the iTunes best music video list. ‘The Lost and Found’ (2011) received more than 30 national and international awards, including the Downbeat Jazz Critic’s Poll “#1 Vocal Album of 2011 “and iTunes “Jazz Vocal Album of the Year”. Her 2009 sophomore release, ‘In a Dream’, was Jazz Times Critic’s Poll “Jazz Vocal Album of 2009” and hailed by Billboard as “the most alluring jazz vocal album of 2009.”

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐋 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐄𝐊𝐄 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝟏𝟕. After his initial exposure to jazz in Benin, he left to attend the National Institute of Art in nearby Ivory Coast. In 1994 he left Africa to pursue jazz studies at the American School of Modern Music in Paris, then went to the U.S. on a scholarship to Berklee College of Music. From there, Loueke gained acceptance to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, where he had the opportunity to study his greatest mentors: Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard. This is where he encountered his Gilfema bandmates Biolcati, Nemeth, Parlato and other musicians with whom he would form lasting creative relationships. In 2008 and 2009, Lionel Loueke was picked as top “Rising Star Guitarist” in Downbeat Magazine’s Annual Critics Poll.

𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐬 “𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫,” Lionel Loueke combines harmonic sophistication, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African music, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own. Soon after his time at the Monk Institute, Lionel Loueke began focusing exclusively on nylon-string acoustic guitar, an instrument on which he’s developed a signature voice.

𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐞𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 ‘𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞’ (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟓) 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥, then three albums on Obliqsound Label as a leader ‘Virgin Forest’ (2006) and ‘Gilfema’ (2005), ‘Gilfema +2’ (2008).

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥, ‘𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮’ (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖), 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞. His sophomore release for Blue Note, ‘Mwaliko’ (2010), followed up acclaimed ‘Karibu’ offered a series of searching, innovative, intimate duets with Angelique Kidjo, Esperanza Spalding, Richard Bona and Marcus Gilmore – artists and allies who continue to have a profound impact on Loueke’s vision as a bandleader.

𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 “𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐨𝐬𝐨” 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬, guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke follows up with ‘Heritage’ (released in August 2012), co-produced by piano great and Blue Note label mate Robert Glasper. Lionel Loueke, long known for his nylon-string acoustic guitar, releases here a more electric album. In 2015, Loueke chose to record ‘Gaía’, his remarkable rock-infused fourth Blue Note album, live in the studio with an intimate audience in attendance.

𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐞𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝’𝐬 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐘® 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 ‘𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰’ (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟓) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐜𝐤’𝐬 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐘® 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝-𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 ‘𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐢 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬’ (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖). Lionel appeared on recordings by such legends as Jack DeJohnette’s ‘Sound Travels’, Charlie Haden’s ‘Land of the Sun’, Kenny Barron’s ‘The Traveler’ and Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s ‘XXI Century’. He has also appeared on recordings by Esperanza Spalding, Joe Lovano, Gretchen Parlato, Avishai Cohen, Kendrick Scott and other leading peers. Loueke has also toured the world as a member of Hancock’s band for more than ten years and toured with Chick Corea.

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒅𝒖𝒐 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓”
— 𝑫𝑶𝑾𝑵𝑩𝑬𝑨𝑻 𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑨𝒁𝑰𝑵𝑬

“𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒔. 𝑨 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕.”
— 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑼𝑨𝑹𝑫𝑰𝑨𝑵

“𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒙 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆, 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆… 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒛 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.”
— 𝑩𝑶𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑵 𝑮𝑳𝑶𝑩𝑬

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