Jeff Parker | 2xVinyl LP | Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy
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Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in LA's Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depthful and exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 and 2021 by Bryce Gonzales, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, and patience and grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. Jeff Parker's first double album and first live album, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse, Miles Davis' In Person Friday and Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco & Black Beauty, and John Coltrane's Live in Seattle. While the IVtet sometimes plays standards and including on this recording, original compositions, it is as previously stated largely a free improv group -- just not in the genre meaning of the term. The music is more free composition than free improvisation, more blending than discordant. It's tensile, yet spacious & relaxed. Clearly all four musicians have spent significant time in the planetary system known as jazz, but relationships to other musics, across many scenes and eras -- dub and Dilla, primary source psychedelia, ambient and drone -- suffuse the proceedings. Listening to playbacks Parker remarked, humorously and not, 'we sound like the Byrds' (to certain ears, the Clarence White-era Byrds, who really stretched it). A fundamental of all great ensembles, whether basketball teams or bands, is the ability of each member to move fluidly and fluently in and out of lead and supportive roles. Building on the communicative pathways they've established in Parker's -- The New Breed -- project, Parker and Johnson maintain a constant dialogue of lead and support. Their sampled & looped phrases move continuously thru the music, layered and alive, adding depth and texture and pattern, evoking birds in formation, sea creatures drifting below the photic zone. Or, the two musicians simulate those processes by entwining their terse, clear-lined playing in real-time.


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