Jeff Parker - New Breed - Music & Performance - Vinyl

Vinyl LP pressing. Best known as a multi-instrumental member of Tortoise and a pillar of the Chicago jazz and experimental music scene, Jeff Parker has been incomparably prolific over the last 20+ years while merely producing 5 albums as a "lead artist" (just 2 since 2005, including 2016's duo recording with Rob Mazurek on Rogue Art). "Lead artist" is in quotes here, because though his name is seldom seen in marquees, his distinctive guitar sound has been essential to every project he's been part of. The recordings were conducted to capture composed passages as well as free playing that used Parker's beats and sample suites as improvisational criterion. After completing 7 songs with the band, the last of which with vocals from his daughterRuby Parker recorded in Chicago by John McEntire, Parker named the project The New Breed (after a clothing store his late father Ernie owned and operated in the '70s) and finished the album by stitching the band tracks together with intermittent pieces of beat memories from his archive.