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REVIEW: JEFF PARKER ETA IVTET AT THE FREIGHT, AUGUST 22

Listen. Many folks—and I do mean many, including myself—were scratching their heads after the glorious booking of SML and Tortoise at Noise Pop earlier this year. And then… no bassist Anna Butterss with SML? No Jeff Parker on guitar with Tortoise? WTF, Mang? Both shows were beyond adequate. Attending both, I have to say SML still somehow over-performed. But those magical players were greatly missed.

Anyone who has kept up to date knows that all of these musicians take bigger gigs when they become available, so you can’t dislike Butterss and Parker taking support touring positions on Flea’s tour of his solo jazz album Honora and making some extra scratch, right?

Yet the question remained: When were Bay Area folks gonna get that spectral slippery jazz blessing when all the members are present and live in the moment?

That “oh snap” moment seemed to be on its way with , the third album from LA-based guitarist Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet, which features drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson. All encompass that sonic bullet train that goes from ambient sleepytime tea mellow to Zen Buddha improv/higher listening organized rhythm. (Fans of the band know what I’m saying.) That thing they do as a collective has influenced many other bands in the “jazz” idiom today—and I’m using the term loosely, like a “stretched out elastic waistband in your sweatpants” type of manner.

They ran out dates for a mini tour, and Berkeley turned out being its only Northern California gig, a show put on collectively by The Freight and (((folkYEAH!)))—and it immediately sold out. The whole thing felt like sort of an indirect “we’re sorry” to the Bay Area.

A line stretched halfway down Addison Street an hour-plus before Parker and crew hit the stage on Saturday night, and it appeared that the unspoken apology had been accepted. Understand this was a night in the Bay that had other, mega choices (Pearl and The Oysters at The Independent; The Charities at Cafe du Nord; night one of The Breeders at the Castro Theater; night three of the SF Bay Pop festival at Bottom of the Hill; a free techno party, albeit corporate—Tec-Troit it was not—in Salesforce Park), but this plush running shoes lot, myself included, knew where they wanted to be and showed up. Early.

Outside Lands was but a faint memory; at The Freight, you enter, make a choice on food and beverages, and immediately sit down. If you listened closely, you caught Jeru The Damaja and DJ Premier over the sound system reminding everyone who could hear them about the production genius of ’90s boom-bap hip-hop. Kudos to The Freight.

Donning a Lord Quas t-shirt under his collared shirt, dedicated Madlib fan Parker led the ETA IVtet out on stage to rousing applause, thanked everyone for coming, and immediately, got to it.

During an hour-long opening set with a serene aura and droning textures, Josh Johnson delivered repetitive runs on the sax; Butterss added modal vibes from the bass. Parker found his way, adding guitar ramblings, then chords, now colors, gently ushering the live round-robin down the road, while Johnson’s sax lines get processed through an EFX filter and dissipate like a kind breeze. It was mellow, methodical, and rad all at once. Audience members gave the occasional yelp, holler, or whoop.

When the IVtet returned for a second set, they immediately got to uptempo, slippery jazz levels, with Bellerose putting those bass drum codas at the end of sentences, while Butterss searched for the tonal framework, running patterns and scales. Upon achieving success, they would turn the bass toward Johnson, and he rolled out gentle dub waves of sax tones through an EFX pedal.

In response, Parker started floating out those dub waves as well, putting his guitar chords and colors through a similar EFX, giving the segment new feels, to the audience’s agreement. That led into a final segment which again saw Bellrose leading in rhythm, a straight-ahead jazzy arrangement, with Johnson once again on sax, tripling his sound through pedals, flapping this sensation through the wind, Parker coloring and comping a similar pattern. The musicians joined together for a hug, as they did at the end of the first set. Their attentive and mindful audience gave them their due: a minutes-long standing ovation.

Does that mean everyone got it?

It may be decades before there is formal recognition of the way Parker and his players, and various offshoots of this ever-growing network, have shaken jazz up. (I’m not opting for using the term “re-energized,” since the culture was already rolling differently.)

Jazz had to get off the dusty shelf and become interactive.

The urgency of both the late, great jaime branch and recently departed trombone player Ryan Porter, close friend and bandmate of Kamasi Washington, invited a younger generation into the jazz space. They gave new eyes, ears, and brains the ability to connect with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. They made space at the jazz table so the storied genre could flourish in the 21st century.

Parker has also been doing just that. At times, when Parker and co. are all rolling in their improvisational non-verbal communication mind-meld on stage, they look just as awestruck as the crowd.

But it doesn’t take a high IQ to pay witness to just how rare and uncommon this type of performance is. That’s what was evident on most folks’ faces as they exited, looking for the parking garage.

ALICE COLTRANE, ASHRAM TAPES (MATADOR)

I was reconnecting with a friend I had not seen in years—decades—after I ran into them at a random show. We were listening to music, sipping—maybe somebody was smoking something—and he started to explain his relationship with his cassette tape deck repairman.

The guy had been working on two of his vintage Nakamichi cassette decks for over a year to fix a playback issue. My buddy is a Deadhead; he’s got two walls full of tapes, so the deck repair is vital to him. So he gets the decks back, and they’re no good. He texts his fix-it guy, telling him still they don’t work. And his guy texts back, “At all?” That had me rolling; it’s like weed went legal, but this guy has taken the weed guy’s place, in terms of operating completely outside standard time constraints.

After their second repair session, man, we had one deck working, so we popped on a mixtape made by a mutual friend of ours—no idea where she is today, but she’s in our thoughts. When Alice Coltrane’s Journey in Satchidananda featuring Pharoah Sanders came on, our laughs and yucks floated away.

Mid-summer, it was announced that Alice Coltrane’s ashram tapes would be released via Matador. Turiya Sings, Divine Songs, Infinite Chants, and Glorious Chants were recorded at the late jazz musician’s ashram outside of Los Angeles in the ‘80s and ‘90s, where the cassettes were distributed among members. Matador will debut the tapes—which pull up jazz, new age, gospel, and electronic music—on all formats for the first time, complete with full mixes and artwork. Stay tuned.

You can sign up for Coltrane’s mailing list to stay informed on their release here.

CARRÉ, CITRINE (TEMPA)

London-via-LA producer Carré needs to apply for dual citizenship.

The breadwinner, chicken-dinner slam jam that is track “Sense of Place” navigates slinky, dubby, late-summer humidity vibes with constant bass-weight pressure and just enough minimal melody to get a dance floor moving, bouncing, and grinding as the floor siren turns inward. Those cool, stretchy sound patches make you think you’re on that Alien: Romulus ship for a second. Proper dubstep, indeed.

“Static,” with its video game dankness, swiveling snark, and bass grumble, is in T-minus mode.

Song “Enough” is about that half-time, head-nodding biz, with keyboard that stab lighting your way to the elevated place. Lemme say this: Tempa is back on their bullshit, and that’s a great thing.

Pick it up here.

At a time when Denver and Front Range governments are restricting or banning data center development, Douglas County commissioners are poised to approve a $19.3 million tax rebate agreement Tuesday for a new data center under construction in Parker.

The contrasting approaches are occurring as the debate over data centers has taken center stage in Colorado and elsewhere in the country.

Critics seek moratoriums or even a complete ban, citing worries about water and energy consumption, while proponents argue they bring in jobs and new revenue, not to mention their national security implications — America, they say, should not cede the battle for AI infrastructure dominance to global competitors.

The proposed agreement would provide a 100% rebate for Douglas County’s share of the business personal property taxes generated by the facility’s equipment over the next 35 years.

Flexential, a Colorado-headquartered company, is developing the project, which would be its fifth location in the state. Flexential operates 41 data centers across 18 U.S. markets.

The data center is being built on a 17-acre site on Compark Boulevard near South Chambers Road within the Compark Village development. The plans envision a 249,000-square-foot facility with a power capacity of 22.5 megawatts.

Parker’s planning commission unanimously approved the proposal in January 2024, followed by the Town Council’s approval — also unanimous — of a rezoning request and creation of a data center overlay district in February.

Flexential expects to invest about $205 million in the Parker project. County documents estimate the facility will create 16 permanent jobs, though company representatives said during public meetings in 2024 that employment could range from 30 to 50 positions.

Parker officials estimated the facility could generate between $500,000 and $700,000 annually in local revenue, which they said would support public safety, infrastructure, parks, recreation and open space programs.

Unlike Douglas County, Parker is not offering tax incentives for the project.

Data centers and other “large load” users are driving up energy expectations across the country, as well as the need for the massive infrastructure to support them. But experts say access to energy is the real issue — water matters, but at a much lesser scale.

While data centers face criticism over water consumption, many companies — Microsoft, for example — say they have begun to move toward “zero-water” cooling techniques that use closed-loop systems and engineered fluids, reducing reliance on local resources.

Flexential said the Parker facility will use a closed-loop liquid cooling system designed to achieve a water usage effectiveness target of zero. Under the system, cooling liquid is recirculated through pipes, radiators and heat exchangers, rather than being consumed during the cooling process.

Electric service will be provided by CORE Electric Cooperative through an existing substation adjacent to the site. CORE has publicly supported the project, saying the 22.5-megawatt data center will fund its own infrastructure and will not increase electric rates for residential customers.

Data center supporters have emphasized jobs and revenue. Critics, meanwhile, have focused on questions surrounding power demand and water use.

Surveying the political landscape in the U.S., Brookings said more than 100 local communities have adopted moratoriums against data centers, while 300 state bills were filed in the first week of 2026 alone.

Brookings also noted that a “single hyperscale campus” could easily become one of the biggest tax sources for a county.

In Colorado, the largest data center project currently under construction is QTS Realty Trust’s hyperscale campus in Aurora, which is expected to require about 160 megawatts of electricity when completed.

The United States is the world’s largest data center market, accounting for roughly 43% of global data center electricity consumption, according to the International Data Center Authority.

U.S. data centers consume an estimated 29.2 gigawatts of electricity and account for about 6% of the nation’s total power use.

Data center employment jumped from 306,000 to 501,000 between 2016 and 2023, according to U.S. Census data.

The Douglas County proposal comes as artificial intelligence and cloud computing continue to drive demand for computing capacity.

Like other parts of the country, utilities, regulators and local governments across the state are weighing how large-scale data centers could affect long-term energy planning, even as business and labor groups push to attract them, arguing they would provide substantial employment opportunities not only in technology but also for pipe fitters, welders and service providers.

Denver approved a one-year moratorium on new data center permits in May after city officials concluded local zoning rules had not kept pace with the rapid growth of the industry.

Jefferson County followed with a 10-month moratorium to evaluate public worries about data centers, while Boulder and Larimer counties enacted similar temporary pauses to study potential impacts.

In July, Broomfield approved an 18-month moratorium on new data centers through December 2027. County leaders said the pause would allow officials to develop regulations tailored to the industry’s unique infrastructure demands.

Debate over data center development has also been particularly visible in Colorado Springs, where the planning commission voted, 6-2, in July to approve Project Taurus, a proposed artificial intelligence data center.

State lawmakers considered competing bills during the 2026 session that would have either imposed new requirements on data center developers or created incentives for the industry. Both proposals failed.

Douglas County commissioners are scheduled to vote on the proposed incentive agreement at their meeting Tuesday.

Neil Harris Blumenthal, Co-Chief Executive Officer and a Director at Warby Parker Inc. (NYSE:WRBY), recently sold 100,000 shares of the company’s Class A Common Stock for a total value of $2,769,000. The shares were sold at prices ranging from $27.00 to $28.25 per share. The transaction comes as WRBY stock trades at $25.99, up roughly 22% over the past six months, though InvestingPro analysis suggests the stock is currently overvalued relative to its Fair Value. According to InvestingPro, the company is trading at a high earnings multiple with a P/E ratio of 373.52. Investors can access 9 additional ProTips and comprehensive financial metrics for WRBY on the platform.

The sale, which occurred on October 1, 2026, was executed pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan that Mr. Blumenthal adopted on March 17, 2026.

On the same date, Mr. Blumenthal also acquired 95,614 shares of Class A Common Stock through the conversion of Class B Common Stock. The Class B Common Stock is convertible into Class A Common Stock on a one-to-one basis.

In other recent news, Warby Parker reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $235.5 million, marking a 9.8% increase from the previous year. However, this figure fell slightly below Wall Street’s forecast, and the company’s adjusted earnings per share were $0.04, missing the analysts’ expectation of $0.10. Despite the earnings miss, Warby Parker maintained its full-year revenue guidance between $959 million and $976 million, with an expected adjusted EBITDA of $117 million to $119 million. UBS raised its price target for Warby Parker to $28.00 from $27.00, attributing the change to growth in revenue per customer, although it maintained a Neutral rating. Meanwhile, BTIG reiterated a Buy rating with a $34.00 price target, following discussions with the company’s CFO and VP, Head of Investor Relations. Citizens also maintained a Market Outperform rating and a $29.00 price target, noting the anticipated launch of AI glasses. The company is preparing for this Intelligent Eyewear launch, expected at the end of October to early November, which is seen as a significant strategic initiative. Retail revenue saw a 13.6% year-over-year increase, though e-commerce revenue experienced a slight decline as the company phased out its Home Try-On program.

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Commanders GM Adam Peters said the team still likes rookie RB Kaytron Allen after releasing him, but added that he wants to do what is best for the organization moving forward.

“We’re not down on Kaytron at all; we really like Kaytron,” Peters said, via Commanders Wire. “Certainly, you never want to release a guy; it sucks to release a guy at any point in time, but certainly a guy you like and has shown promise. But really think, you know, this may sound like coachspeak or GM-speak, but every move you make, you are trying to do whatever you can for the best of the team to win the game and have the best season possible.”

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Eagles QB Jalen Hurts feels, in hindsight, that he should have commented on the Eagles’ final play in London on Sunday, but HC Nick Sirianni disagreed.

“It’s not my place, and we’re prepared — I’m prepared as a quarterback to not worry about those things,” Hurts told reporters, via Pro Football Talk. “So I’m honoring a play call, honoring the things that are coming in the game. When I’m up at night, yeah, I think about, ‘Man, should I have said something, or should I have took a step back and said, “Wait”?’ But ultimately, there’s a commitment to that and going out there and executing. And so this was one where it did not work in our favor.”

“Jalen’s playing,” Sirianni commented. “We’re coaching and calling the plays, and Jalen’s got to go execute what we call in that moment, 100 percent. We’re not asking him to make play calls in that scenario. He’s already got enough to worry about to go out and execute. That’s where we were there in that situation.”

Sirianni then explained the game-ending situation in depth, including what led to Jake Elliott‘s kick.

“Leading up to Jake [Elliott’s] kick, we practice that situation every Wednesday,” Sirianni said. “Every single Wednesday, we practice what we call two-minute to four-minute. It’s a little more complicated than I think people understand. My opinion is that people stop trying — you get to around the 35, you’re in range, and people stop trying to advance the ball forward. When you advance the ball forward, you make the kicker’s job easier. We are all trying to do our part to help each other be at their best. You guys can look up the percentages when the ball gets in certain spots on the field league-wide. Because if you don’t make the kick, nothing else really matters.”

“So, in that situation, you’re trying to move the ball forward. Running it is an option, obviously, but with what Jacksonville was doing in that particular case, it wasn’t going to be an option. You saw what happened when we ran it on the third down. I never think that it’s something that you can say, ‘OK, I’m going to wait ‘til third down to pass the ball.’ You have no idea how many times it’s going to take you to advance the ball a little bit more forward. We didn’t get any yards and got an incomplete pass on the first play. We gained yards on the second play, and then on the third play, we ran it and lost yards there against a full-out pressure. You have to gauge what the defense is doing — I end up watching those situations each week and any two-minute to four-minute from a — not only do we practice it, I’ll study those situations throughout the week, whatever I deem kind of came up that way in pro football. In my opinion, I think you see a lot of times teams take their foot off the gas there.”

Now, you’d love for the last play of the game to be your kick, but you’d also say, ‘Hey, if I can get that clock under 20 seconds, you’re accomplishing that as well.’ Leading into that last play, I said what I said yesterday. I stand by that. I did not make the decision that I wanted to make there in that particular case, and it cost us. There’s nothing else to be said about that. But leading up to Jake’s kick, to answer your question, that’s my thought process there, to bring you inside that a little bit without giving too much information. That’s my thought process in that situation. I stand by what I did in that situation, had eight seconds left to go in the game once we gave the ball back to them, and that’s where my decision is that I regret what I did then after that. But to give them back the ball with eight seconds left, I think we did what we needed to do as an offense, and you obviously saw the success of Jake’s kick in that particular case.”