Happy Today
Happy Today is the third album from guitarist/bandleader’s Jeff Parker’s long-running ETA IVtet, recorded live at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025. This fresh entry into the IVtet’s catalog captures the instantly recognizable group sound of Parker and the band—including drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson—on record outside of the now-shuttered Highland Park micro-club ETA for the first time ever.
Artist: Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Genre: Contemporary Jazz
Label: International Anthem
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Happy Today is that sound—the IVtet's signature syntax built around long-form, minimalist improvisation—expanding confidently into larger space while creating the same hypnotizing, deeply-tuned listening effect on visibly enraptured audiences. The album contains two sidelong pieces recorded as the band performed in the round at Lodge Room, surrounded by an audience of 400 or so deep listeners. (The venue, appropriately enough, sits on the same street and just a few hundred feet away from the storefront that used to be ETA.) Recorded and mixed live, direct to a Nagra tape machine by engineer Bryce Gonzales, utilizing a compact outboard rig that he built himself, specifically to record this band.
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LP FORMAT DETAILS:
140g classic black vinyl LP inside a heavyweight jacket with brown cardstock pocket, IARC obi strip, and polylined inner sleeve.
About the artist
Jeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music - using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms.
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