Gretchen Parlato - Weak - Cover

Here we have Shane Benson (drums) and band performing Gretchen Parlato's "Weak" for his graduating recital at the Australian Institute of Music. Check out loads more videos from our recent recitals on our channel. Plus celebrity performances, Pro Tools tutorials, Top 5's, and other great Australian Music Vids. No Copyright Infringement intended AIM - Leading School For Today's Music Industry Check out our Website, http://www.aim.edu.au/ Our Facebook Page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-... Our Video Page, http://www.aim.edu.au/video/ Our Twitter,   / aimsydney   My Space, http://www.myspace.com/australianinst... You Tube Channel,    / aimtvsydney   Check out our App in the ITunes Store : http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/austra... The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) is more than just a music school! Here on YouTube and the AIMtv channel, you'll find a whole bunch of cool videos showing you what we do here at AIM. From music videos to pro tools tutorials, micro-lectures, live performances, events, news, master classes, promotions, studio sessions and course related videos, there's plenty to watch, and always something new coming up. Gretchen Parlato Gretchen Parlato's 2009 sophomore breakthrough, In a Dream, signaled the arrival of an incredibly inventive modern jazz singer. Her follow-up, The Lost and Found, demonstrates that she has staying power. In a Dream garnered international acclaim with Billboard magazine hailing it as "the most alluring jazz vocal album of 2009"; it also made it onto the top year-end polls for Jazz Times, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice and NPR. The Lost and Found shows immediate weight and intensity, exposing a greater dynamic range. "I feel like I stepped out of my own way and allowed myself to be more revealing and vulnerable through the music," reflects Parlato. Revealing a seamless, crystalline, and more importantly, personal voice, Parlato says that the overall theme of The Lost and Found is about accepting opposition and embracing the ebbs and flows of life. "One day we may think we've found all the answers, and then something suddenly happens that makes us feel completely lost as though nothing makes sense. This is life. Accepting that we are always in transition without attaching a judgment to the experience is freeing. We are always the lost and found." An alumni of the Thelonious Monk Institute, Parlato has been turning heads ever since she won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Institute International Vocal Competition with which she displayed a musical individuality loaded with paradoxical powers. Her sultry, intriguing voice and unique, rhythmically agile phrasing came with inescapable centripetal force; the more intimate and understated she sang, the more she drew listeners in. Since then she has toured worldwide to sold out audiences with BBC Radio proclaiming, "Star over London...A star is born!" Her originality captivates musicians as well, prompting invitations to appear on over 50 recordings with the likes of Terence Blanchard, Kenny Barron, Terri Lynn Carrington and Esperanza Spalding. Her breathtaking performances have been captured on television in Europe and Japan and she has become a sought after clinician on vocal styling.