Jeff Parker (musician)

Jeff Parker (born April 4, 1967) is an American jazz and rock guitarist based in Los Angeles.^[1][2][3] Parker is best known as an experimental musician, working with avant-garde electronic, rock, and improvisational groups.

Parker currently plays guitar in the post-rock group Tortoise^[4] and also was a founding member of the ensembles Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Trio in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, as well as working with musicians George Lewis, Ernest Dawkins, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, Fred Anderson (musician) and Jason Moran.^[5] He has released three solo albums: Like-Coping, "The Relatives" and "Bright Light in Winter".^[6]

Discography

As A Lead Artist^[7]

• Like-Coping (Delmark Records, 2003)
• Out Trios, Vol. 2 (with Michael Zerang and Kevin Drumm) (Atavistic Records, 2003)
• Jeff Parker and Scott Fields: Song Songs Song (Delmark Records, 2004)
• The Relatives (Thrill Jockey, 2005)
• Bright Light in Winter (Delmark Records, 2012)

With Tortoise^[8]

• "Tortoise" (Thrill Jockey, 1994)
• "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" (Thrill Jockey, 1996)
• "TNT" (Thrill Jockey, 1998)
• "In the Fishtank" (In the Fishtank, 1999)
• "Standards" (Thrill Jockey, 2001)
• "It's All Around You" (Thrill Jockey, 2004)
• "The Brave and the Bold" (Overcoat Recordings, 2006)
• "Beacons of Ancestorship" (Thrill Jockey, 2009)

References

External links

• Official Website