Premiere screenings: Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - HAPPY TODAY /// see the film in LA, Portland, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Seattle, New York, Porto, and Tokyo
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Happy Today
Album-Length Concert Film Premiere Screenings
An album-length concert film by Charlie Weinmann, capturing the August 2025 Lodge Room performance that became Jeff Parker's new ETA IVtet album Happy Today, will be released worldwide on May 29, 2026. Premiere screenings will take place in select cities across late April and early May, before the album's official release on May 15th. Details and links for premiere screenings below.
LOS ANGELES, CA
April 26th @ Vidiots
two screenings, at 1pm and 330pm
+ Jeff Parker in conversation with Josh Kun (Vice Provost for the Arts at USC)
tickets
PORTLAND, OR
April 30th & May 1st @ Mono Space
doors for both evenings at 7pm
tickets
BROOKLYN, NY
May 1st @ Public Records
presented with Nonesuch Records, doors 7pm
tickets
CHICAGO, IL
May 3rd @ The Land School
presented with Rebuild Foundation, doors 730pm
+ Jeff Parker in conversation
tickets
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
May 3rd @ Mono Tape Club
Presented by Yardwork Presents x Mono Tape Club, doors 7:30pm
SEATTLE, WA
May 5th @ Northwest Film Forum
presented with The Grand Illusion and Goodbye Look, doors 730pm
tickets
TOKYO, JP
May 8th @ Venue TBA
presented with BEATINK
PORTO, PT
May 13th @ Espaço Agra/Radioclube Agramonte
presented by Music on Music in partnership with Music and Riots, doors 9pm
tickets
(photo by Sam Lee)
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Happy Today
LP, CD, Digital album out May 15th
Happy Today is the third album from guitarist / bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet, and will be released May 15th via International Anthem / Nonesuch. Recorded at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, the album captures the sound of Parker and the IVtet — with drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson — engaged in their signature, minimalist, form-bending improvisational syntax across two sprawling, LP side-length pieces.
Recorded and mixed in situ at Lodge Room by engineer Bryce Gonzales with a custom-made analog mixer and Nagra stereo tape recorder, Happy Today captures a bright moment during dark times. As Parker shares: “2025 was a very difficult year for me and my family. Dealing with being displaced from the Eaton fires for eight months, and the kind of toll that instability took on my family’s mental health and general outlook, coupled with Donald Trump being back in office and basically making life miserable for everyone… There was a lot of sadness and despair. But feeling the sense of community that we created with our concert, and later hearing the recording, seeing the beautiful footage that had been shot and the photographs of such joy to be back in that space and to be making music again: It was a very happy moment. So I called the record Happy Today. It’s meant to be a statement of joy.”
The past two years have been productive and busy as ever for Parker, who has long been a prominent player within a wide-range of music communities, jazz and beyond. In 2025 alone, he released new music and toured with his long-standing experimental rock band Tortoise, and brought the ETA IVtet in for an NPR Tiny Desk performance. Additionally, Parker and two other members of the IVtet — Butterss and Johnson — are featured on Flea's solo debut album released March 27 on Nonesuch Records. The album, Honora, also was produced by Johnson.
Happy Today is the ETA IVtet’s first recording made outside of the now-shuttered, widely-beloved Los Angeles micro-club ETA. Part laboratory, part low-stakes proving ground, ETA was where the band’s collective sound coalesced over the course of a storied seven-year Monday night residency that yielded two critically-acclaimed records — 2022’s Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy and 2024’s The Way Out of Easy.
With Happy Today, that sound — honed in such an intimate setting — is scaled up for a much larger audience and space at Lodge Room. But the essential formula remains the same, and has the same hypnotic, deeply-tuned listening effect. The almost alchemical musical communication creates a feeling of connection not only between the band members but also between the band and their audience – an ongoing trust exercise that invites listeners to become part of the exchange, and experience the joy of deep listening.
Happy Today is out May 15, preorder and presave it here.
HAPPY TODAY
RELEASE SHOWS
In August, Parker and the ETA IVtet will do a run of Happy Today album release shows that includes a three-night stand in-the-round at Lodge Room in Los Angeles, almost exactly one year after the album was recorded in the very same place. Tickets and info for all below.
DELUXE VINYL PACKAGE
Happy Today comes on 140 gram vinyl inside a heavyweight jacket with brown card inner pockets, IARC obi strip & poly-lined innersleeve. Lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST. US stock pressed at New Orleans Record Press, stock for the rest of the world pressed at Pallas in Germany.
Limited Edition *Cerulean Blue* Color Vinyl - $34
Classic Black Vinyl - $29
also available on
Compact Disc - $15
!!! SPRING '26 BUNDLE IS HERE !!!
Happy Today is the first of two new IARC releases for Spring 2026. And, per our norm, both LPs are available to purchase together, as part of the Spring ‘26 Bundle.
A purchase of the Spring ‘26 Bundle (on either classic black vinyl or color vinyl) comes with a bundle-exclusive discount of 10% off the LP prices + a discounted shipping cost.
The LPs included are:
IARC0109 Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - Happy Today
IARC0111 (TBA)
Bundles will ship from warehouses in the US, EU and UK, but don't sleep.. the quantity available in each warehouse is limited! Early purchase is recommended to ensure the lowest possible shipping and tax costs.
All items will ship around May 15th. Bandcamp download codes will be sent via email for all the releases by, or before, the ship date.
Order Spring '26 Bundle on
COLOR VINYL here
Order Spring '26 Bundle on
BLACK VINYL here
