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A cornerstone of improvised jazz and sampled beat making. Jeff Parker and many of the folks out in Chicago have helped to craft this unique sound and I simply can't get enough.
Favorite track: Executive Life.
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$9USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
2022 Repress! 140g Classic Black Vinyl LP, pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST, packaged in a heavyweight LP jacket with IARC obi strip and dome pattern innersleeve. 11x11 album insert includes production credits and vintage portraits of Jeff's father Ernie Parker.
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Includes unlimited streaming of The New Breed
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Shiny compact disk in 6-panel digipack. Package features pictures from Parker family photo album and complete production credits.
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Includes unlimited streaming of The New Breed
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$12USDor more
IARC0009 Tokoname Clay color vinyl LP - Japanese Import
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition Japan Exclusive : 140g Tokoname Clay color vinyl LP packaged in a heavyweight Stoughton Tip-On LP jacket, with Japanese obi strip, Japanese folded insert sheet with liner notes by Masaaki Hara, and classic IA dome pattern inner sleeve.
Released in collaboration between RINGS x DISK UNION x Intl. Anthem.
*Ships from US only. Customers in Japan, see Disk Union*
Includes unlimited streaming of The New Breed
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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. It was in that sense that we at International Anthem came to work with Parker during the production of Makaya McCraven’s In The Moment, an album which ultimately showcased said essentialness (of Parker’s “side man” sound) on 9 of its 19 tracks.
Over the course of the In The Moment sessions in 2013 and 2014, Parker was slowly transitioning his personal belongings from Chicago to a new home in Los Angeles. It was when finally settled that he found opportunity to re-open some home recordings and beat projects that had been dormant on his hard drive for years (early versions of some could have been heard in the late ‘00s on his Myspace page). Parker had long been in silent study of vinyl sampling and beat conduction, but perhaps it’s no coincidence that new residence in a city aflame with experimental R&B, jazz and electronic fusers (i.e. L.A., e.g. Brainfeeder, Leaving Records, Low End Theory) spurred him to dig back in to the practice and produce with more purpose.
By early 2015 Parker had refined several compositional ideas around his samples, and enlisted local friend Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello) to engineer and play bass guitar in sessions with Chicago ex-pat saxophonist, Thelonious Monk Institute protégé Josh Johnson (Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Esperanza Spaulding)and drummer Jamire Williams (Robert Glasper, Carlos Niño. 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 daughter Ruby 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.
The final presentation is a retrospective tapestry that explores Parker’s past both musically – as a potent compositional tribute to his influences (J Dilla, Thelonious Monk, Charles Stepney)held together by literal fragments of his life’s work – and patrilineally – as a collaboration with his kin held together by clippings from the family photo album. The New Breed is Jeff Parker’s most vibrant and comprehensively personal work yet, appropriately the first in 11 years with only his name in the “lead artist” column.
credits
released June 24, 2016
Produced by Paul Bryan and Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker - electric guitar, Korg MS20, Wurlitzer electric piano, Mellotron, loops and samplers, MIDI and drum programming
Josh Johnson - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet, Wurlitzer electric piano, Mellotron
Paul Bryan - electric bass guitar
Jamire Williams - drums
Jay Bellerose - drums and percussion (“Visions” only)
Ruby Parker - vocals
Engineered, edited and mixed by Paul Bryan intermittently from February to December, 2015 in Santa Monica CA. Vocals recorded by John McEntire at SOMA E.M.S., Chicago. Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters, Los Angeles.
All songs and lyrics composed and arranged by Jeff Parker (umjabuglafeesh music, BMI), except “Visions” by Bobby Hutcherson
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