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Jeff Parker

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Jeff Parker (b. Bridgeport, Connecticut USA) is a guitarist, composer/arranger/producer and educator. A longtime member of the influential indie-band Tortoise, Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music—using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract. His sonic palette may employ techniques from sample-based technologies, analog and digital synthesis, and conventional and extended techniques from over 35 years of playing the guitar. An integral part of what has become known as “The Modern Chicago Sound" he is also a founding member of the critically acclaimed and innovative groups Isotope 217˚ and Chicago Underground, and has been an associate member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1995

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

John Zorn’s Masada, Tommy Flanagan, Jeff Parker

Read "John Zorn’s Masada, Tommy Flanagan, Jeff Parker" reviewed by David Brown


This week a trio of works featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, we then work our way tough a pile of recently acquired '80s LPs featuring lots of Tommy Flanagan, some Mulgrew Miller and Ronnie Mathews; and finally, we revisit John Zorn's Masada Quartet--leaders of the Radical Jewish Cultural movement of the '90s--who made their first recordings 30 ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jeff Parker, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Franz Koglmann

Read "Jeff Parker, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Franz Koglmann" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show features newer music from musicians such as Pascal Le Boeuf, Billy Mohler, and Gabriel Espinosa and older music from the likes of Jeff Parker, Andrew Hill and Franz Koglmann. Playlist The Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...

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Billy Valentine And The Universal Truth

Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 2023
Track listing: We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue; Home Is Where the Hatred Is; My People… Hold On; The Creator Has a Master Plan; Sign of the Times; You Haven’t Done Nothin’; Wade in the Water; The World Is a Ghetto.

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Lightning Dreamers

Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2023
Track listing: Future Shaman; Dream Sleeper; Shape Shifter; Black River; White River.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Todd Sickafoose, Joel Ross, Joe Rosenberg and Others

Read "Todd Sickafoose, Joel Ross, Joe Rosenberg and Others" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This program is an eclectic mix of 2023 music from musicians such as Todd Sickafoose and Arina Fujiwara and past work from Joel Ross, Joe Rosenberg, and others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Duke ...

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Article: Live Review

Makaya McCraven At Barbican Centre

Read "Makaya McCraven At Barbican Centre" reviewed by Chris May


Makaya McCraven with London Contemporary Orchestra Barbican Centre, Main Hall In These Times London November 11, 2023 Jazz, said Whitney Balliett in 1958, is the sound of surprise. The New Yorker critic, who passed in 2007 but remains one of jazz literature's most felicitous writers, was describing jazz ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jaimie Branch: 7 Steps To Heaven

Read "Jaimie Branch: 7 Steps To Heaven" reviewed by Chris May


Following the 2024 re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and his subsequent ratification as President-for-Life, the US Constitution was suspended. Jaimie Branch, who had passed in 2022, was one of many musicians, film makers, writers and visual artists whose work, no longer protected by the First Amendment, was declared Un-American and its ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Makaya McCraven: In The Moment to In These Times

Read "Makaya McCraven: In The Moment to In These Times" reviewed by Rob Garratt


Makaya McCraven needs a coffee--fast. It's 4pm and he's crashing. It will be his third of the day. His first caffeine hit, consumed on stage six hours earlier, was a chemical necessity; McCraven was drinking at a nearby Irish pub until the early hours and nearly missed his early morning panel talk appearance alongside fellow percussion ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Parker / Eric Revis / Nasheet Waits: Eastside Romp

Read "Eastside Romp" reviewed by John Sharpe


Though best known as an experimental guitarist in the likes of Tortoise, Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Trio, on Eastside Romp Jeff Parker hews closer to his jazz roots in a co-operative trio completed by bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits. Each a leader, Parker's bandmates possess similarly expansive resumés, making their somewhat introspective ...


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