The Way Out of Easy HD FLAC Album (48kHz/24bit) exclusiveThe Way Out of Easy is the first album from guitarist Jeff Parker and his long running ETA IVtetsaxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Jay Bellerosesince their 2022 debut Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, which Pitchfork named one of the Best Albums of the 2020s So Far. Like that album, The Way Out of Easy comprises recordings from LA venue ETA, where Parker and the ensemble held a weekly residency for seven years. During that
the Hollywood Studio Symphony led by Joel McNeely
Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney recorded Delta Kream at Auerbachs Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville
it features both solo piano recordings and others made with musicians like Jay Bellerose
The group later recorded the songs
More than any other songwriter
and works by Charles Ives
The Los Angeles Times said
the first vinyl edition was released for Record Store Day in 2016 with new artwork and two previously unreleased bonus tracks
It "bears hearing and rehearing
All About Jazz praised "the intensity and creative spark" of Metheny's playing
only to reappear every time one of her descendants is on their deathbed
temperamentally and intellectually as suited to the challenges of these sonatas
