{"product_id":"jeff-parker-mondays-at-the-enfield-tennis-academy","title":"Jeff Parker - Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Eremite\u003cbr\u003eCatalog: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMTE 076-77LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2023 repress!! \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, x2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist \u0026amp; composer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJeff Parker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eETA IVtet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, is at last here. Recorded live at ETA (referencing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e), a bar in LA's Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJay Bellerose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, bassist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnna Butterss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u0026amp; alto saxophonist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJosh Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to convene in extraordinarily depthful \u0026amp; exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 \u0026amp; 2021 by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBryce Gonzales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, \u0026amp; patience \u0026amp; grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJeff Parker's first double album \u0026amp; first live album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLee Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLive at the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMiles Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Person Friday \u0026amp; Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLive in Seattle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. While the IVtet sometimes plays standards \u0026amp;, 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 \u0026amp; relaxed. Clearly all four musicians have spent significant time in the planetary system known as jazz, but relationships to other musics, across many scenes \u0026amp; eras -- dub \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDilla\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, primary source psychedelia, ambient \u0026amp; drone -- suffuse the proceedings. Listening to playbacks Parker remarked, humorously \u0026amp; not, 'we sound like the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eByrds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e' (to certain ears, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClarence White\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-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 \u0026amp; fluently in \u0026amp; out of lead \u0026amp; supportive roles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBuilding on the communicative pathways they've established in Parker's -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Breed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e -- project, Parker \u0026amp; Johnson maintain a constant dialogue of lead \u0026amp; support. Their sampled \u0026amp; looped phrases move continuously thru the music, layered \u0026amp; alive, adding depth \u0026amp; texture \u0026amp; 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. The stop\/start flow of Bellerose, too, simulates the sampler, recalling drum parts in Parker's beat-driven projects. Mostly Bellerose's animated phraseologies deliver the inimitable instantaneous feel of live creative drumming. The range of tonal colors he conjures from his extremely vintage battery of drums \u0026amp; shakers -- as distinctive a sonic signature as we have in contemporary acoustic drumming -- bring almost folkloric qualities to the aesthetic currency of the IVtet's language. A wonderful revelation in this band is the playing of Anna Butterss. The strength, judiciousness \u0026amp; humility with which she navigates the bass position both ground \u0026amp; lift upward the egalitarian group sound. As the IVtet's grooves flow \u0026amp; clip, loop \u0026amp; repeat, the ensemble elements reconfigure, a terrarium of musical cultivation growing under controlled variables, a tight experiment of harmony \u0026amp; intuition, deep focus \u0026amp; freedom. For all its varied sonic personality, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e scans immediately \u0026amp; unmistakably as music coming from Jeff Parker's unique sound world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenerous in spirit, trenchant \u0026amp; disciplined in execution, Parker's music has an earned respect for itself \u0026amp; for its place in history that transmutes through the musical event into the listener. Many moods \u0026amp; shapes of heart \u0026amp; mind will find utility \u0026amp; hope in a music that combines the autonomy \u0026amp; the community we collectively long to see take hold in our world, in substance \u0026amp; in staying power. On the personal tip, this was always my favorite gig to hit, a lifeline of the eremite records Santa Barbara years. Mondays southbound on the 101, driving away from tasks \u0026amp; screens \u0026amp; illness, an hour later ordering a double tequila neat at the bar with the band three feet away, knowing i was in good hands, knowing it would be back around on another Monday. To encounter life at scales beyond the human body is the collective dance of music \u0026amp; the beholding of its beauty, together.\" --\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMichael Ehlers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZac Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pressed on premium audiophile-quality 120 gram vinyl at RTI from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKevin Gray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\/Cohearent Audio lacquers. Mastered by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoe Lizzi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Triple Point Records, Queens, NY. First eremite edition of 1799 copies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forced Exposure","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67911645397152,"sku":"afj1793051651760","price":32.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1045\/5833\/0016\/files\/jeff-parker---mondays-at-the-enfield-tennis-academy_1.jpg?v=1793051683","url":"https:\/\/boardroomwear.shop\/products\/jeff-parker-mondays-at-the-enfield-tennis-academy","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}