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Jeff Parker has released "Four Folks," a song from his upcoming solo guitar album Forfolks, due in December via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. You can hear it here. It's a tune first written by Parker in 1995 and is one of six original compositions on the album, which also includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal." Parker says: “I am trying to create a sonic world for me to wander around in.” He will co-headline a US tour with Steve Gunn this Thursday.
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Jeff Parker has released "Four Folks," a song from his upcoming solo guitar album Forfolks, due on vinyl and digitally December 10, 2021, with CD to follow on December 17, via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. You can hear it below and here. The song is a tune first written by Parker and recorded in 1995 and is one of six original compositions on the album, including “La Jetée," a tune he recorded with Isotope 217 in 1997 and with Tortoise in 1998. Forfolks also includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal." The four totally new original compositions are loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. As Parker says: “I am trying to create a sonic world for me to wander around in.” The album was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeff’s house) over two days in June 2021. Forfolks is available to pre-order here.
Parker begins a US tour, in support of the album, at Thalia Hall in Chicago on December 2. The tour, which he co-headlines with Steve Gunn, runs through the end of the year, making stops in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville, Baltimore, NYC, and more. Parker will also perform with his band, The New Breed, at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, in March 2022, leading into a run of spring dates with Gunn for shows in California (including three nights at Zebulon in Los Angeles), Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver. A complete list of dates is below.
“It's a particular thing to hear Jeff play solo,” writes veteran Chicago musician and longtime Parker collaborator Matthew Lux in his liner note for Forfolks. “He is an unusually selfless improviser, often times laying out and highlighting the contributions of his band mates. He's never been one to play three notes where none would suffice. On this recording, however, he is by himself, joined only by his own ideas, looped or frozen, to flesh out the music he's creating in his mind. Hearing him craft entire sound worlds on these eight selections gives us an opportunity to really see how Parker orders sound … He eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music, maintaining a deeply personal voice without weighing down the music with obvious stylistic maneuverings.”
The album follow’s Parker’s critically acclaimed 2020 record, Suite for Max Brown, which Pitchfork called an “effortlessly detailed album, full of tradition and experimentation that spans generations … It lives at the vanguard of new jazz music.” The album went on to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Chart and No. 2 on the Contemporary Jazz Chart in the United States, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “a transcendent set of pieces that occupy a vague terrain lit by jazz, experimental electronic music, instrumental hip-hop and genre-jumping avant-rock ... Parker’s album ascends track by track with the majesty of a new-build high-rise transforming a skyline.”
Parker is known to many fans as the longtime guitarist for the Chicago–based quintet Tortoise, one of the most critically revered, sonically adventurous groups to emerge from the American indie scene of the early 1990s. The band’s often hypnotic, largely instrumental sound draws freely from rock, jazz, electronic, and avant-garde music, and it has garnered a large following over the course of nearly thirty years. Aside from recording and touring with Tortoise, Parker has worked as a side man with many jazz greats, including Nonesuch labelmate Joshua Redman on his 2005 Momentum album; as a studio collaborator with other composer-musicians, including Brian Blade, Meshell Ndegeocello, and fellow International Anthem artists Makaya McCraven and Rob Mazurek; and as a solo artist.
Listen: Jeff Parker Releases "Four Folks" From Upcoming Album, 'Forfolks'
Jeff Parker has released "Four Folks," a song from his upcoming solo guitar album Forfolks, due on vinyl and digitally December 10, 2021, with CD to follow on December 17, via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. You can hear it below and here. The song is a tune first written by Parker and recorded in 1995 and is one of six original compositions on the album, including “La Jetée," a tune he recorded with Isotope 217 in 1997 and with Tortoise in 1998. Forfolks also includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal." The four totally new original compositions are loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. As Parker says: “I am trying to create a sonic world for me to wander around in.” The album was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeff’s house) over two days in June 2021. Forfolks is available to pre-order here.
Parker begins a US tour, in support of the album, at Thalia Hall in Chicago on December 2. The tour, which he co-headlines with Steve Gunn, runs through the end of the year, making stops in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville, Baltimore, NYC, and more. Parker will also perform with his band, The New Breed, at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, in March 2022, leading into a run of spring dates with Gunn for shows in California (including three nights at Zebulon in Los Angeles), Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver. A complete list of dates is below.
“It's a particular thing to hear Jeff play solo,” writes veteran Chicago musician and longtime Parker collaborator Matthew Lux in his liner note for Forfolks. “He is an unusually selfless improviser, often times laying out and highlighting the contributions of his band mates. He's never been one to play three notes where none would suffice. On this recording, however, he is by himself, joined only by his own ideas, looped or frozen, to flesh out the music he's creating in his mind. Hearing him craft entire sound worlds on these eight selections gives us an opportunity to really see how Parker orders sound … He eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music, maintaining a deeply personal voice without weighing down the music with obvious stylistic maneuverings.”
The album follow’s Parker’s critically acclaimed 2020 record, Suite for Max Brown, which Pitchfork called an “effortlessly detailed album, full of tradition and experimentation that spans generations … It lives at the vanguard of new jazz music.” The album went on to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Chart and No. 2 on the Contemporary Jazz Chart in the United States, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “a transcendent set of pieces that occupy a vague terrain lit by jazz, experimental electronic music, instrumental hip-hop and genre-jumping avant-rock ... Parker’s album ascends track by track with the majesty of a new-build high-rise transforming a skyline.”
Parker is known to many fans as the longtime guitarist for the Chicago–based quintet Tortoise, one of the most critically revered, sonically adventurous groups to emerge from the American indie scene of the early 1990s. The band’s often hypnotic, largely instrumental sound draws freely from rock, jazz, electronic, and avant-garde music, and it has garnered a large following over the course of nearly thirty years. Aside from recording and touring with Tortoise, Parker has worked as a side man with many jazz greats, including Nonesuch labelmate Joshua Redman on his 2005 Momentum album; as a studio collaborator with other composer-musicians, including Brian Blade, Meshell Ndegeocello, and fellow International Anthem artists Makaya McCraven and Rob Mazurek; and as a solo artist.
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Listen: Jeff Parker Releases "Four Folks" From Upcoming Album, 'Forfolks'
Jeff Parker has released "Four Folks," a song from his upcoming solo guitar album Forfolks, due on vinyl and digitally December 10, 2021, with CD to follow on December 17, via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. You can hear it below and here. The song is a tune first written by Parker and recorded in 1995 and is one of six original compositions on the album, including “La Jetée," a tune he recorded with Isotope 217 in 1997 and with Tortoise in 1998. Forfolks also includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal." The four totally new original compositions are loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. As Parker says: “I am trying to create a sonic world for me to wander around in.” The album was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeff’s house) over two days in June 2021. Forfolks is available to pre-order here.
Parker begins a US tour, in support of the album, at Thalia Hall in Chicago on December 2. The tour, which he co-headlines with Steve Gunn, runs through the end of the year, making stops in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville, Baltimore, NYC, and more. Parker will also perform with his band, The New Breed, at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, in March 2022, leading into a run of spring dates with Gunn for shows in California (including three nights at Zebulon in Los Angeles), Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver. A complete list of dates is below.
“It's a particular thing to hear Jeff play solo,” writes veteran Chicago musician and longtime Parker collaborator Matthew Lux in his liner note for Forfolks. “He is an unusually selfless improviser, often times laying out and highlighting the contributions of his band mates. He's never been one to play three notes where none would suffice. On this recording, however, he is by himself, joined only by his own ideas, looped or frozen, to flesh out the music he's creating in his mind. Hearing him craft entire sound worlds on these eight selections gives us an opportunity to really see how Parker orders sound … He eschews genre playing and chooses a painterly approach to coloring the music, maintaining a deeply personal voice without weighing down the music with obvious stylistic maneuverings.”
The album follow’s Parker’s critically acclaimed 2020 record, Suite for Max Brown, which Pitchfork called an “effortlessly detailed album, full of tradition and experimentation that spans generations … It lives at the vanguard of new jazz music.” The album went on to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Chart and No. 2 on the Contemporary Jazz Chart in the United States, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “a transcendent set of pieces that occupy a vague terrain lit by jazz, experimental electronic music, instrumental hip-hop and genre-jumping avant-rock ... Parker’s album ascends track by track with the majesty of a new-build high-rise transforming a skyline.”
Parker is known to many fans as the longtime guitarist for the Chicago–based quintet Tortoise, one of the most critically revered, sonically adventurous groups to emerge from the American indie scene of the early 1990s. The band’s often hypnotic, largely instrumental sound draws freely from rock, jazz, electronic, and avant-garde music, and it has garnered a large following over the course of nearly thirty years. Aside from recording and touring with Tortoise, Parker has worked as a side man with many jazz greats, including Nonesuch labelmate Joshua Redman on his 2005 Momentum album; as a studio collaborator with other composer-musicians, including Brian Blade, Meshell Ndegeocello, and fellow International Anthem artists Makaya McCraven and Rob Mazurek; and as a solo artist.
Brad Mehldau’s After Bach II and Après Fauré are out now on Nonesuch Records. The Bach album comprises four preludes and one fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the Allemande from the fourth Partita, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of Bach—including Mehldau’s Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme. On Après Fauré, Mehldau performs four nocturnes, from a thirty-seven-year span of Gabriel Fauré’s career, as well as a reduction of an excerpt from the Adagio movement of his Piano Quartet in G Minor. Here Mehldau’s four compositions that Fauré inspired are presented in a group, bookended by two sections featuring the French composer’s works.
Congratulations to Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra), who has been nominated for the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards' Album of the Year for their new album, The Past Is Still Alive. The ceremony will be held at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 18.