" data-original-title="" title="">Jeff Parker spent many years in Chicago involved in the city's fertile jazz and experimental music scene, primarily as a member of the AACM and the band Tortoise. In 2013 he relocated to Los Angeles. Since then, his music as a leader has combined a 70's rhythm and blues vibe with the sampling, electronic manipulation and serial techniques he was involved with in Chicago. This album, dedicated to his mother whose maiden name was Maxine Brown, shows just how polished and deep his hybrid style has become.

The record is a combination of fragments and longer pieces involving soul music samples, lush jazz fusion, hip hop beats and sound experiments. On pieces, like "Fusion Swirl" and "Metamorphoses," Parker goes solo, playing everything, whether African flavored bass and guitar or a sprightly bit of bouncy synthesizer riffing on a continuous loop. On others he plays repeating fragments on a combination of guitars, keyboards and other instruments with only one other player in support. That is bassist