Jeff Parker

Jeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music - using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract. Parker has released several albums as a leader, all to critical acclaim, including: Like-Coping (2003), The Relatives (2005) Bright Light In Winter (2012), The New Breed (2016), Slight Freedom (2016), Suite For Max Brown (2020), Forfolks (2021), Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy (2022), and The Way Out of Easy (2024).  In May 2026, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet will release it’s third album, ‘Happy Today,’ on International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. Its sound finds the group’s signature syntax, built around long-form minimalist improvisation, expanding confidently into larger space while creating the same hypnotizing and deeply-tuned listening effect on visibly enraptured audiences. The album contains two sidelong pieces recorded as the band performed in the round at Lodge Room, surrounded by an audience of 400 or so deep listeners.