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Joanie Pallato
 
Jazz vocalist whose vocals are endearingly child-like. She's also part-owner of important local jazz label Southport Records (with her husband, pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow).

Chicago Reader critic Peter Margasak gives her new Words and Music (Southport) mixed reviews, saying "local thrush Joanie Pallato takes on a variety of standards, jazz gems, and originals in appealingly lean settings: her treatment of Baltimore Oriole," for example, features only the bass of Eldee Young and the bongos of Alejo Poveda. Unfortunately Pallatto's syrupy, show-tunesy style negates any advantage the instrumentation might give her..."

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