{"id":3527,"date":"2017-04-10T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2017-04-10T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:53:29","slug":"jeff-parker-and-jazz-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/04\/jeff-parker-and-jazz-guitar.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Parker and Jazz Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>FOR months\u00a0now, one of the most intriguing instrumentalists in Los Angeles has been unspooling his style for the price of a drink in a small bar in Highland Park. Jeff Parker, longtime guitarist for the Chicago &#8220;post-rock&#8221; band Tortoise, has lived in Los Angeles for a few years now, and alongside playing with members of Spain and in drummer Matt Mayhall&#8217;s trio, Parker has also dropped one of the best recent jazz LPs, The New Breed, which The New York Times picked as one of 2016&#8217;s finest, alongside Radiohead&#8217;s latest.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about Parker, who I&#8217;ve seen plan in several different settings, for the LA Weekly. The piece is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/music\/tortoise-guitarist-jeff-parker-has-a-monday-residency-at-eta-in-highland-park-8108539\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parker will perform with Tortoise in LA on April 17, and will continue his run at ETA the Monday after that. Check him out.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MI0004080565.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MI0004080565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] FOR months\u00a0now, one of the most intriguing instrumentalists in Los Angeles has been unspooling his style for the price of a drink in a small bar in Highland Park. Jeff Parker, longtime guitarist for the Chicago &#8220;post-rock&#8221; band Tortoise, has lived in Los Angeles for a few years now, and alongside playing with members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,30,29],"tags":[784,718,783,713],"class_list":{"0":"post-3527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-indie","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"category-west-coast","9":"tag-guitar","10":"tag-jazz","11":"tag-jeff-parker","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"entry","14":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}