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From the street swagger of “The Boys are out for Blood” to the anthemic choruses of “I Don’t Care” and “Lady Rockaway

JEFF PARKER ETA IVTET - The Way Out of Easy CD 60s Gaze) simply shimmerJanuary 2nd, 2023. Aside from being the second of a new year, it was a pretty ordinary night at ETA in Los Angeles, where guitarist Jeff Parker alongside his ETA IVtet with saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Jay Bellerose had been holding down a regular Monday gig since 2016. At the time, nobody knew it was the first gig of the last year that ETA would be open for business. Over seven years of holding down that residency,