Oh, Jeff Parker? He Gets It.
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Adam Maness brings you the freshest releases of May 2026!
0:00 Intro
0:50 Jeff Parker
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/happy-today
3:45 Greg Hutchinson
https://www.allmusic.com/album/kind-of-now-mw0004778588
6:15 Chris Potter
https://chrispotterjazz.bandcamp.com/album/alive-with-ghosts-today
9:09 New Jazz Underground
https://www.allmusic.com/album/hoodies-mw0004791891
11:04 Virginia MacDonald
https://virginiamacdonald.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of
13:00 Harry Skoler
https://harryskoler1.bandcamp.com/album/echoes
15:05 Laurie Anderson & Sexmob
https://laurieanderson.bandcamp.com/album/let-x-x-live
17:06 Alabaster DePlume
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/dear-children-of-our-children-i-knew-epilogue
19:31 Ben Wolfe
https://benjonah.bandcamp.com/album/any-time-after-now
21:30 Joe Lovano
https://joelovano.com/recordings/paramount-quartet/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to one to another edition of Fresh Band Friday. My name's Adam Manis. On this show, we dive |
| 0:22.8 | into some of the best new music that was released in May, mostly jazz or jazz-adjacent stuff. |
| 0:29.1 | There was a lot of good music released in May. We're going to start with Los Angeles-based guitarist, |
| 0:33.9 | Jeff Parker. Jeff has a new album out called Happy Today by Jeff Parker's ETA |
| 0:41.0 | Fortet and four is like the Roman numeral for Ivy Tet. An incredible band and some really |
| 0:47.9 | great music. This is called like swimwear. I'm gonna The |
| 1:13.6 | The I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm |
| 1:45.0 | I'm |
| 1:46.0 | the So, I'm. So This is a very patient recording, very joyous recording, something that you can sink into for quite a long time. |
| 2:35.6 | This track, like swimwear, is 23 minutes long, and it's this evolving, revolving figure |
| 2:44.7 | that you can just sit back into. So, so nice from Jeff Parker. |
| 2:53.1 | That's also Anna Butrus on the bass, Jay Belarus on the drums, and Josh Johnson on the saxophone. |
| 3:00.0 | Incredible band, Jeff Parker, ETA, Fortet, and again, Roman numeral four. |
| 3:05.6 | Next up, we've got, well, one of our own here at Open Studio. |
| 3:09.8 | Open Studio artist Gregory Hutchinson, Hutch, the man, |
| 3:14.1 | back at it with an album called Kind of Now, |
| 3:17.0 | which is subtitled The Pulse of Miles Davis. |
| 3:19.5 | This is Miles' centennial birth year. |
| 3:23.0 | Miles would have been 100 years old today. |
| 3:25.0 | And so a lot of artists are doing Miles tributes. None better than Hutch with this. |
| 3:30.0 | This has been getting a lot of buzz amongst jazz musicians this album. |
| 3:34.0 | The opening track, Alu Chaa features Ambrose, Akken Usair, Ron Blake, |
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