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Jeff Parker

Born: April 4, 1967

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

Lightning Dreamers

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

Billy Valentine And The Universal Truth

By Billy Valentine

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.

Makaya McCraven At Barbican Centre

by Chris May
November 15, 2023

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 ...

Jaimie Branch: 7 Steps To Heaven

by Chris May
October 24, 2023

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 ...

Makaya McCraven: In The Moment to In These Times

by Rob Garratt
June 13, 2023

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 ...

Jeff Parker / Eric Revis / Nasheet Waits: Eastside Romp

by John Sharpe
May 7, 2023

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 ...

Emil and the Detectives: Remote Proximity

by Neil Duggan
May 2, 2023

When one thinks of countries with strong jazz connections, the chances are that Slovenia isn't the first place that comes to mind. So, it could be surprising to learn that Slovenia has a jazz history going back to the 1920s and is home to one of the oldest continuously running jazz festivals in Europe. This year ...

The Jazz Critic: Neil Tesser

by B.D. Lenz
May 1, 2023

For as long as there has been art and artists there have been critics to give their opinions about their work. There is even that famous joke about everyone having an opinion. But, clearly, some opinions are more informed than others and when it comes to being a competent jazz critic one needs to have a ...

Billy Valentine, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Magic Malik, Bobo Stenson & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 25, 2023

This week we open with a stunner, Billy Valentine's new album featuring the best of the Los Angeles and New York Scenes (Pino Palladino; Jeff Parker, Theo Croker; Larry Goldings; Abe Rounds; Immanuel Wilkins; Linda May Han Oh) and music that should bring him much deserved attention. Then a mix of exciting releases, with a special ...