Happy Today
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Happy Today is the third album from guitarist and bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet — comprising drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson — released on May 15, 2026 through International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album was recorded live at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, making it the first ETA IVtet recording made outside of the now-shuttered Enfield Tennis Academy (ETA), the Highland Park micro-club where the quartet held a celebrated Monday-night residency for seven years beginning in 2016. That residency — and the two live albums it yielded, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (2022) and The Way Out of Easy (2024) — established the group's reputation for long-form minimalist improvisation built on deep collective listening. The Lodge Room, fittingly, sits only a few hundred feet from the former ETA storefront. The album consists of just two tracks, each filling one side of vinyl: "Like Swimwear" and the title piece "Happy Today," totaling just under 45 minutes and recorded on analog tape by engineer Bryce Gonzales.
The title carries personal weight. Parker and his family were displaced from their Altadena home for eight months following the devastating 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, and the performance was captured during an intensely difficult period politically and personally. As Parker explained to Newcity Music, the name came simply from the feeling in the room that night: "When we played the show, there was just a happiness around it. So I called it 'Happy Today.'" He described the album as "a statement of joy amid the misery." Musically, as KLOF Magazine noted, the sound is more expansive than the band's previous work — the Lodge Room allowed the four musicians more physical and sonic space — yet the mood remains deeply intimate, with each piece beginning from Parker's solo guitar before each additional voice enters, adding synergies and shifting melodic patterns in the group's signature hypnotic, groove-anchored style. An album-length concert film by director Charlie Weinmann documenting the August 2025 performance was released alongside the record on May 29, 2026.
Happy Today is the third album from guitarist and bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet — comprising drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson — released on May 15, 2026 through International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album was recorded live at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, making it the first ETA IVtet recording made outside of the now-shuttered Enfield Tennis Academy (ETA), the Highland Park micro-club where the quartet held a celebrated Monday-night residency for seven years beginning in 2016. That residency — and the two live albums it yielded, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (2022) and The Way Out of Easy (2024) — established the group's reputation for long-form minimalist improvisation built on deep collective listening. The Lodge Room, fittingly, sits only a few hundred feet from the former ETA storefront. The album consists of just two tracks, each filling one side of vinyl: "Like Swimwear" and the title piece "Happy Today," totaling just under 45 minutes and recorded on analog tape by engineer Bryce Gonzales.
The title carries personal weight. Parker and his family were displaced from their Altadena home for eight months following the devastating 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, and the performance was captured during an intensely difficult period politically and personally. As Parker explained to Newcity Music, the name came simply from the feeling in the room that night: "When we played the show, there was just a happiness around it. So I called it 'Happy Today.'" He described the album as "a statement of joy amid the misery." Musically, as KLOF Magazine noted, the sound is more expansive than the band's previous work — the Lodge Room allowed the four musicians more physical and sonic space — yet the mood remains deeply intimate, with each piece beginning from Parker's solo guitar before each additional voice enters, adding synergies and shifting melodic patterns in the group's signature hypnotic, groove-anchored style. An album-length concert film by director Charlie Weinmann documenting the August 2025 performance was released alongside the record on May 29, 2026.
Happy Today
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Happy Today is the third album from guitarist and bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet — comprising drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson — released on May 15, 2026 through International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album was recorded live at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, making it the first ETA IVtet recording made outside of the now-shuttered Enfield Tennis Academy (ETA), the Highland Park micro-club where the quartet held a celebrated Monday-night residency for seven years beginning in 2016. That residency — and the two live albums it yielded, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (2022) and The Way Out of Easy (2024) — established the group's reputation for long-form minimalist improvisation built on deep collective listening. The Lodge Room, fittingly, sits only a few hundred feet from the former ETA storefront. The album consists of just two tracks, each filling one side of vinyl: "Like Swimwear" and the title piece "Happy Today," totaling just under 45 minutes and recorded on analog tape by engineer Bryce Gonzales.
The title carries personal weight. Parker and his family were displaced from their Altadena home for eight months following the devastating 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, and the performance was captured during an intensely difficult period politically and personally. As Parker explained to Newcity Music, the name came simply from the feeling in the room that night: "When we played the show, there was just a happiness around it. So I called it 'Happy Today.'" He described the album as "a statement of joy amid the misery." Musically, as KLOF Magazine noted, the sound is more expansive than the band's previous work — the Lodge Room allowed the four musicians more physical and sonic space — yet the mood remains deeply intimate, with each piece beginning from Parker's solo guitar before each additional voice enters, adding synergies and shifting melodic patterns in the group's signature hypnotic, groove-anchored style. An album-length concert film by director Charlie Weinmann documenting the August 2025 performance was released alongside the record on May 29, 2026.
Happy Today is the third album from guitarist and bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet — comprising drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson — released on May 15, 2026 through International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album was recorded live at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, making it the first ETA IVtet recording made outside of the now-shuttered Enfield Tennis Academy (ETA), the Highland Park micro-club where the quartet held a celebrated Monday-night residency for seven years beginning in 2016. That residency — and the two live albums it yielded, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (2022) and The Way Out of Easy (2024) — established the group's reputation for long-form minimalist improvisation built on deep collective listening. The Lodge Room, fittingly, sits only a few hundred feet from the former ETA storefront. The album consists of just two tracks, each filling one side of vinyl: "Like Swimwear" and the title piece "Happy Today," totaling just under 45 minutes and recorded on analog tape by engineer Bryce Gonzales.
The title carries personal weight. Parker and his family were displaced from their Altadena home for eight months following the devastating 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, and the performance was captured during an intensely difficult period politically and personally. As Parker explained to Newcity Music, the name came simply from the feeling in the room that night: "When we played the show, there was just a happiness around it. So I called it 'Happy Today.'" He described the album as "a statement of joy amid the misery." Musically, as KLOF Magazine noted, the sound is more expansive than the band's previous work — the Lodge Room allowed the four musicians more physical and sonic space — yet the mood remains deeply intimate, with each piece beginning from Parker's solo guitar before each additional voice enters, adding synergies and shifting melodic patterns in the group's signature hypnotic, groove-anchored style. An album-length concert film by director Charlie Weinmann documenting the August 2025 performance was released alongside the record on May 29, 2026.