Jeff Parker

A quietly radical blueprint for modern jazz.

The New Breed finds Jeff Parker dismantling and rebuilding groove from the inside out—loop fragments, MPC smudges, guitar lines that glow like streetlamps, and rhythms that sway with hip-hop’s lazy precision.

It’s intimate but endlessly inventive, a family album turned experimental sketchbook where memory, melody, and repetition fold into each other.

Parker moves with calm mastery, letting small gestures hit with surprising weight: a clipped chord, a murmured sample, a bass pulse that reshapes the room.

The result is warm, human, and slyly futuristic—a minimalist soul-jazz collage that’s as much about the spaces between notes as the notes themselves.

A modern classic for listeners who like their innovation subtle, deep, and quietly devastating.