Jazz Articles about Jeff Parker

Jeff Parker: Bright Light in Winter

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 24, 2012

Il chitarrista Jeff Parker cerca di prenderci in contropiede con il tempo latino un po' buttato là nell'iniziale “Mainz," ma non dobbiamo lasciarci influenzare dal clima rilassato da pomeriggio assolato, perchè questa musica ha un anima e, ascolto dopo ascolto, la sua consistenza viene fuori e ci trascina nel suo mondo da garage band sonnolente e attorcigliata su se stessa, come un serpente che sembra addormentato nella sua cesta di vimini e poi si alza pigramente per danzare al suono ...

Scott Amendola Trio: Lift

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 14, 2012

Questo Lift del trio di Scott Amendola arriva a parecchi anni di distanza dall'ottimo Believe del 2005 che vedeva il batterista californiano impegnato alla testa di un quintetto con i chitarristi Nels Cline e Jeff Parker affiancati dalla violinista Jenny Scheinman. Il basso era sempre affidato al fido scudiero John Shifflett. In Lift ritroviamo gli stessi protagonisti con l'esclusione di Cline e della Scheinman. Siamo talmente abituati ad ascoltare Scott Amendola con Nels Cline alla chitarra (soprattutto, ma non solo, ...

Jeff Parker: Bright Light in Winter

by Hrayr Attarian
May 9, 2012

Chicago-based guitarist Jeff Parker has cut his proverbial teeth with the Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and remains an active member of that group. His own work is very much in the spirit of the AACM's musical philosophy, but enhanced by his unique vision that draws from all sources of improvised music including but not limited to jazz. His third release as a leader, Bright Light in Winter, finds the guitarist in a lean setting ...

A Fireside Chat with Jeff Parker

by AAJ Staff
March 20, 2005

[This interview updates last year's Fireside Chat with Chicago guitarist Jeff Parker.]

All About Jazz: You reunited with Scott Fields for Song Songs Song.

Jeff Parker: I first played with him on this double trio project that he had called Dénouement that came out on his label, Geode, in 1998. It was with myself and him on guitars, Jason Roebke and Hans Sturm on string basses, and Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang on drums. ...

Jeff Parker: The Relatives

by Rex Butters
March 19, 2005

Jeff Parker's second session as a leader, The Relatives, surprises by taking easygoing mainstream flavors and, stirring with spice, manages to honor the forms while tweaking them. Parker's regular rhythm section, Chris Lopes on bass and NY-Chicago drum machine Chad Taylor on percussion, keep the momentum crisp. Parker's earnest and deliberate delivery plays off space, often adding the right pinch of Grant Green.

Frothy wah-wahed chords yawn through Taylor's brushed cymbals on “Istanbul. Parker winds a wiry line around the ...

Jeff Parker/Scott Fields: Song Songs Song

by Budd Kopman
February 19, 2005

Although we are told that first impressions are usually correct (the “go with your gut" approach), the liner notes for this release nearly derailed my enjoyment of the music. The notes, such as they are, were written by Fields and consist of a stream-of-consciousness collection of words and phrases in a postmodern style full of in-jokes and self-references, but also a lot of information if you stay with them (including a somewhat snide reference to Kali Fasteau , who does ...

Jeff Parker/Kevin Drumm/Michael Zerang: Out Trios Volume Two

by John Kelman
November 16, 2004

When the most striking thing about an album is the packaging, you know you're in trouble. Music, at its best, should draw on a broad palette of colours, rather than being something that is starkly black and white, with nary the slightest shading of grey. Guitarists Jeff Parker and Kevin Drumm team up with percussionist Michael Zerang for Out Trios Volume Two , an album where the greatest variation in colour, for the most part, is found on the cover ...