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3 days agoJeff Parker Announces ETA IVtet album Happy Today
Jeff Parker's jazz quartet ETA IVtet will release their new album 'Happy Today' on May 15, featuring two 20-minute songs.
Tortoise releasing a record with anyone other than Thrill Jockey after a 30-plus-year relationship is a shocker for a group not known for dramatic changes. It's akin to Autechre abandoning Warp! Anyway, the important thing about Tortoise is that their last two albums before the International Anthem/Nonesuch-reared Touch - 2009's Beacons of Ancestorship and 2016's The Catastrophist - have been among their most vital and inventive, an unusual trajectory for a group well into their fourth decade.