Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown (2020)

'I'm always looking for ways to be surprised,' says composer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker as he explains the process, and the thinking, behind 'Suite for Max Brown'. 'If I sit down at the piano or with my guitar, with staff paper and a pencil, I'm eventually going to fall into writing patterns, into things I already know. So, when I make music, that's what I'm trying to get away from-the things that I know.' Despite its musical departures, in presentation 'Suite for Max Brown' is an informal companion piece to 'The New Breed' (2016).