About this Event
Yardwork Presents x Mono Tape Club are proud to present
The world premier of Jeff Parker ETA IVtet concert film Happy Today.
Hosted in select cities around the world, 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.
Sunday, May 3rd
7:30 pm 10$ (at the door)
bar will be open with our curated menu
come grab a drink, enjoy the film, and always
thank you for listening.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mono Tape Club, 521 500 North, Salt Lake City, United States
USD 12.51
