Parker, Jeff
Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy (2lp)
Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 and 2021 by Bryce Gonzales, 'Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy' is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic and patience and grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. Jeff Parker's first double album and first live album, 'Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy' belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as Lee Morgan's 'Live At The Lighthouse,' Miles Davis' 'In Person Friday & Saturday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco' and 'Black Beauty' and John Coltrane's 'Live In Seattle.'