Jeff Parker - Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy

Double LP

"Jeff Parker's jazz sounds cool, clarifying and totally real. ... The guitarist's fabulous new live album 'Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy'  is one of the year's best." — The Washington Post. Read the entire review here.

Recorded across a few intimate evenings at a cozy L.A. cocktail bar, these four side-long tracks of bass, drums, sax, and guitar dissolve revelatory improvisation into mesmerizing ambient atmospheres.

The LP's title refers to the Los Angeles cocktail bar in Highland Park where it was recorded on certain Monday nights in 2019 and 2021. As for the bar's name, it's a nod to the setting of David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." The most important word in the album title is "Monday." It signals this music's sense of composure, renewal, foresight and getting-back-to-workness.

With this band — drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, saxophonist Josh Johnson, altogether dubbed the ETA IVtet — Parker's playing feels as clarifying as ever, drawing bright, clean lines over thoughtfully propulsive rhythms.

Side A

1. 2019-07-08 I

Side B

2. 2019-07-08 II

Side C

3. 2019-05-19

Side D

4. 2021-04-28

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