Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
Join us in the microcinema for a local piece of musical history. This homegrown concert film directed by **Charlie Weinmann** documents the August 20, 2025 performance by guitarist/bandleader **Jeff Parker** and his **ETA IVtet** (with drummer **Jay Bellerose**, bassist **Anna Butterss**, and saxophonist **Josh Johnson**) at Highland Park, Los Angeles venue **Lodge Room**, which yielded the band’s forthcoming album ***Happy Today*** (to be released by **International Anthem** and **Nonesuch Records** on May 15, 2026). *Happy Today* is the ETA IVtet’s first recording made outside of the now-shuttered, widely-beloved Highland Park, 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* — the latter of which debuted #1 on the *Billboard* Contemporary Jazz Charts, and was called “a testament to the power of live jazz” by *The Guardian*. With *Happy Today*, the ETA IVtet’s sound — honed in such an intimate setting — is scaled up for a much larger audience and space at Lodge Room. But the essential formula of the music remains the same, and has the same hypnotic, deeply-tuned listening effect. The almost alchemical musical communication between Parker, Bellerose, Butterss, and Johnson creates a feeling of connection not only between the band 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. A shadow-laden, almost noirish capture of the band in its full sprawling glory, Weinmann’s *Happy Today* film makes the joyful experience of Parker’s now-legendary, ever-elusive ETA IVtet – a band who only ever played at a single small Los Angeles venue for the first seven years of their existence, and have only played a few shows since that venue closed at the end of 2023 – viewable and widely-accessible for the first time.