Oh, Jeff Parker? He Gets It.
6/1/202624 min
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 preview
First 90 secondsAdam Maness· Host0:00
[jazz music] Welcome, everyone, to another edition of Fresh Band Friday. My name's Adam Maness. On this show, we dive into some of the best new music that was released in May, mostly jazz or jazz-adjacent stuff. There was a lot of good music released in May. We're gonna start with Los Angeles-based guitarist Jeff Parker. Uh, Jeff has a new album out, uh, called Happy Today by Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet, and IV is, like, the Roman numeral for IV tet. An incredible band and some really great music. This is called "Like Swimwear." [jazz music] This