Jeff Parker

Mean Greens

Eddie Harris ·1966

"Mean Greens by Eddie Harris, who's another one of my musical heroes, tenor saxophonist, composer from Chicago. It's a great band with Billy Higgins and Ron Carter, Cedar Walton. You don't see these kind of original older pressings in the wild, so I had to pick this one up."

Reflections In the Sea of Nurnen

Doug Hammond & David Durrah ·1975

"Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen by Doug Hammond on Tribe Records... the music's very political, spiritual but also intellectual and introspective, kind of contemplative album. If anybody who doesn't know it, I highly recommend it."

Elements Forward Motion

Elements ·2013

"it's really like 80s kind of glisteny like Jazz diffusion. they have a really cool sound and they get into this kind of repetitive like Spacey stuff that I kind of can't get enough of."

Yes Indeed!!

Ray Charles ·1958

"Everybody loves Ray Charles if they don't they should but this has its own 'Lonely Avenue' on it which I love and I've been looking for it for a long time."

Reggae Rasta Dub

Sly & Robbie Meet King Tubby ·2006

"I mean I don't know this one but it's with Sly and Robbie meets King Tubby. How could I not buy this? My guess is mid 70s dub kind of before Sly and Robbie made their way as a super Rhythm Section and played on everybody's record."

Uma Elmo

Jakob Bro, Arve Henriksen & Jorge Rossy ·2021

"Uma Elmo on ECM records, he's a great guitarist and I've been looking for this for a while. I think I actually tried to order it and it was out, so I guess they pressed it again and it was nice to see it in the store today."

Zawinul

Joe Zawinul ·1971

"Zawinul will always used to complain in interviews because Miles left out the bridge of the tune and he only did the first kind of iconic melody that everybody knows, but this version when he recorded it himself, he recorded the bridge."

Circles

William S. Fischer ·1971

"I don't know this one, my friend who I'm on tour with, Steve Gunn, just recommended it to me. This cool label I guess that the flute player Herbie Mann used to have called Embryo, but this has a great band with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham and cool instrumentation, you know, Moog synths and electric pianos."