Jeff Parker Collaboration with Artist Harold Mendez

Jeff Parker - Harold Mendez
Sounds and Let us gather in a flourishing way
In this unique solo performance, Jeff Parker performs a series of improvisations within the exhibition Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA).
Jeff Parker (b. 1967, Connecticut) is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers - creating works that exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, and the familiar and the abstract. A longtime member of the influential indie band Tortoise, Parker has been an associate member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1995. A prolific bandleader and collaborator, Jeff has appeared on over 140 commercial recordings. Currently, Parker has been focusing on music production, small ensembles and solo performance.
Harold Mendez (b. 1977, Chicago) has taken part in numerous exhibitions such as  Being: New Photography  (2018) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Biennial (2017), New York. Mendez was recently the subject of a solo presentation, The years now at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. In addition, his work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Bass Museum, Miami; LAXART, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; MoMA PS1, New York; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Project Row Houses, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. Mendez has been awarded residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Light Work, Syracuse; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and the Headlands Center for the Arts. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Minneapolis Institute of Art; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; and the Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico. Mendez studied at Columbia College Chicago; the University of Science and Technology, School of Art, Ghana, West Africa; and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently based in Los Angeles.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) www.theicala.org/en
Produced by Stephen Schauer www.stephenschauer.com/
Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way is organized by Jamillah James, curator, ICA LA.
More about Jeff Parker
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More about Harold Mendez
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Mastered by Anthony Puglisi at Sentrall Sound www.sentrallsound.com/
Recorded in Los Angeles at ICA LA on October 20, 2020

[@jimmygutierrez2931]

I wish i could install Jeff Parker into my living room.

[@waynedexter]

He’s not an inanimate object but ok 😒

[@wylieroth3145]

Buy his recordings...

[@ulissesmalanski514]

some times the music floats like leaves over a pitch black night forest, other times like a huge body imprisoned in a small cage that drys out to its bones ... Love Jeff Parker work since Tortoise

[@diogobatista6844]

Amazing performance by Jeff here! Thanks for posting the video.

[@reddubby]

I can't wait to see him in Asheville Dec 10th 2021 live 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@jz_salim1887]

I hear some Derek Bailey ...
Jeff is one of the best avantgarde jazz player. ❤

[@Jimi_7-7-7]

ES150 💪😎🤝
Very nice atmosphere in these songs. Would like to see him live playing 🤝

[@TheGreenKingdom]

Jeff is awesome, that last piece was a beauty!

[@everardwilliams2918]

Beautiful intersection of music, space and art!!

[@edwinmorais5773]

thank you ICA LA !!

[@jimmymac9157]

brilliant. This would be a great release - Mendez Meditations at the ICA

[@chadkelham5034]

I could see JP doing an improv around cover art from the CTI & Blue Note labels as well as El Paraiso & Intl Artist; he’s that kind of dude

[@aleksandardojcinovic1002]

UNREAL! So good!! Mindblowing!

[@mrwilson1104]

He will be with Steve Gunn at cats cradle Saturday December 11!

[@aotokumo]

This was simply excellent :)

[@efraer]

Truly artistic musicianship. 👍

[@asukahisa8341]

Gorgeous immersion into music and art.

[@AMOKIAN]

Very nice. Hi Asuka...🤫 shhhh it is me Chris. Listening and sharing with some friends.

[@richardnipples7574]

really dug the weird pedal experimentation

[@OngoingBox]

awesome!

[@garagelife8764]

Beautiful. Bravo.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@paulversey6589]

Some real moments of beautiful brilliance but there are other moments where I am very confused .....

[@nbeutler1134]

17:48 - 21:30 is another dimension

[@katznels5]

love jeff. anyone know what shoes he's wearing?

[@dougstephens1979]

I like those shoes too.

[@mcvoony]

whats the guitar amp he's using there?

[@kingdozerr]

Derek Bailey is an influence for sure

[@kingdozerr]

Frisell too

[@victorparedes4863]

Play some jazz, okay?

[@shanehampton9070]

This guy is a great guitarist whatever this stuff is he is playing in this video is absolutely horrible. This guy is a master of cords and can play lines so fluid you get lost in the acoustics,.. But in his attempt to be abstract and eclectic him manages to throw together possibly 30 minutes of the worst guitar playing I’ve ever heard

[@theWARMJET]

this is just sublime

[@Imarocketlamp]

Coming from a man with a video about slime. I’m sure he was eagerly awaiting your opinion 😂