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Jeff Parker
Guitarist and composer Jeff Parker has been active on the avant-garde scene in
Chicago and Los Angeles, following a prolific career marked by collaborations
with Tortoise, Isotope 217 and Ernest Dawkins. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
on April 4, 1967, he grew up in Hampton, Indiana, and studied at the Berklee
College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, before moving to Chicago in 1991. A
guitarist drawn to technical innovations, particularly in electronic tools, he
gravitated to the local rock and jazz avant-garde scene, collaborating with the
groups Tortoise and Isotope 217, a...
