Jeff Parker (musician)
Jeff Parker is an American guitarist and composer based in Los Angeles. Born in Connecticut and raised in Hampton, Virginia, Parker is best known as an experimental musician, working with jazz, electronic, rock, and improvisational groups.
Also a multi-instrumentalist, Parker has been a member of the post-rock group Tortoise since 1996, and was a founding member of Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Trio in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and has worked with George Lewis, Ernest Dawkins, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, Fred Anderson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joey DeFrancesco, Smog, Carmen Lundy and Jason Moran. A prolific sideman, he has also released six albums as a solo artist: Like-Coping, The Relatives, Bright Light in Winter, The New Breed, Slight Freedom, and Suite for Max Brown.Discography
As leader
- Like-Coping
- Out Trios, Vol. 2
- The Relatives
- Bright Light in Winter
- The New Breed
- Slight Freedom
- Suite for Max Brown
With Tortoise
- TNT
- In the Fishtank
- Standards
- It's All Around You
- The Brave and the Bold
- Beacons of Ancestorship
- The Catastrophist
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- Possible Cube
- Flamethrower
With Rob Mazurek
