![]() ![]() ![]() We're having a fun night out with friends, family, coworkers, girlfriends, etc." People get really discouraged when they go and want to start learning how to paint. "What we're seeing out there is there's a lot of art classes. ![]() How did you decide to franchise this operation? And at the end of the evening, they get to leave with a finished product, the painting they created, and then the memory they also created with their friends and family they brought with them." "Our customers pick a painting of the evening that they want to come and get taught how to paint, and they bring their own alcohol, or we'll provide the alcohol for them, and we walk them through that painting step-by-step. You define your business model as the "paint and sip" industry. He joins Andrew Schneider on this week's Bauer Business Focus. Charles Willis is the company's president and co-founder. Today, it has 157 franchise locations across 34 states, and it's about go international. The Houston-based company opened its first studio in Montrose in 2009. Pinot's Palette offers no-experience-required art classes – and wine parties. “I’m surrounded by a lot of empowering, female energy, and creative- and business-minded people who are always helping and guiding me.Ed Mayberry Charles Willis, president and co-founder, Pinot’s Palette “It’s that line of accepting the situation, but also making sure you are a part of the change,” says Parlato, who also names her longtime manager Karen Kennedy as another inspiring figure in her life. When asked about the lack of representation of women in jazz, Parlato, who guested on drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s all-female, Grammy-winning recording The Mosaic Project, is pragmatic. The album speaks to their 22 years of friendship, and among several original tunes by the duo are a beautifully re-imagined version of the Foo Fighters song “Walking After You,” and on three tracks, vocals by Parlato and Guiliana’s nine-year-old son Marley. ![]() (Parlato’s cover of Simply Red’s “ Holding Back the Years” is a highlight of her second album Lost and Found, which she co-produced by Glasper.) Parlato’s latest album Lean In is a recording with acclaimed Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke, who she met while at the Thelonious Monk Institute. “That was normal to me!”Īs a vocalist, Parlato possesses a truly singular instrument her delivery is understated, even fragile, yet filled with emotion, and thoroughly rooted in rhythm, especially the rhythms of West Africa, Brazil, and even Philadelphia by way of Manchester. “Whenever it was someone’s birthday, we’d sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ and it sounded really good,” laughs Parlato. The band Parlato has assembled for Friday includes HSPVA alum Alan Hampton on bass, pianist Taylor Eigsti, and her husband, drummer Mark Guiliana. Though jazz is still, on its surface, very much a dude-centric world, with women woefully unrepresented on the bandstand, Parlato has gracefully navigated and pushed the music forward while collaborating with some of today’s finest musicians - including Houston-born musicians pianist Robert Glasper and drummer Kendrick Scott. 18, all of these tributaries and more will be explored in a set by two-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Gretchen Parlato, making her first appearance in Houston. In between those two hits, on Friday, Aug. 19) extolling the music’s pan-African, funk, and pop potential. 17) illuminating its historical connections to Cuba and Puerto Rico, and internationalists Mwenso and The Shakes (Aug. 17, DACAMERA’s Houston SUMMERJAZZ festival presents a concise, three-night program of jazz in a myriad of contemporary forms, with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Aug. ![]()
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