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Jeff Parker
- Record Label: Eremite
- Release Date: Oct 28, 2022
- Summary: The first live release from Tortoise's Jeff Parker was recorded at Los Angeles' ETA bar over three dates in 2019 and 2021 with Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose, and Josh Johnson.
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- Record Label: Eremite
- Genre(s): Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Guitar Jazz, Free Improvisation, Modern Free, Electric Jazz
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Nov 16, 2022This is deeply intuitive, subtly detailed, endlessly grooving, holistic jazz-trance music that was improvised at an extremely high level.
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Nov 16, 2022Parker’s latest may be his first live album, but it’s also the product of a mad scientist, cackling over a mixing board. Time is dilated, curated, edited, and intercut, and the very live-ness of a concert recording turns fascinatingly, fruitfully convoluted—even when the artists responsible are four players participating in the age-old custom of jamming together in a room.
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Nov 16, 2022In contrast to the usual free improvisation idiom and its tendency to meander between abstract figures and skronking freakouts, the four pieces here – each of them around twenty minutes long – are locked into steady, slowly shifting rhythms that give the music a funky, cosy feeling ... A lovely, warm album.
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The WireNov 22, 2022Each musician adopts a groove-plus approach, adding tunes, subtracting beats and spinning tension building, counterintuitive phrases off the common path, but never tripping it up. [Dec 2022, p.60]
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UncutNov 16, 2022Understated double set, the material meandering gently, but persuasive in the way its interlocking parts both ride the groove and smear lush textures across these four side-long live cuts. [Jan 2023, p.23]