Lars Gotrich | May 7, 2025
Music can transport you, even or especially when the destination's unknown. For 22 minutes, this is what Jeff Parker's Tiny Desk with the ETA IVtet can offer: a space for your mind to meditate on what the music speaks, set to a gossamer groove.

Even though Parker is in the group's name, equality runs the show: a quiet drone sets the tone, then the music is completely improvised. Stillness, followed by reflection and response. Josh Johnson, an alto saxophonist with a quiet-yet-commanding sense of effects, builds little worlds out of loops and fluttering melody. Jay Bellerose, a drummer who's worked with the likes of Allen Toussaint and Suzanne Vega, is painterly in his brush and stick work, but bursts with a sun-beamed drum fill when the moment calls. Anna Butterss performed next to Jenny Lewis for her Tiny Desk in early 2020; here, the bassist both provides a grounding presence and the basis for liftoff. Parker — an immediately recognizable, yet malleable guitarist known for his time in Tortoise, the Chicago Underground and a CV far too long to list here — plays with repetition until melodic figures reveal themselves. Informed by the members' backgrounds in jazz, ambient, funk, rock, electronic and minimalist music, the band's mystical approach to improvisation never bends to one sound at a time.

Andie Huether, our audio technical director for this concert, dug into NPR's equipment archives and set out a Nagra IV tape recorder on the Desk as a nod to engineer Bryce Gonzales, who developed a live mixing and recording rig with a similar unit for the band's sets at the now-closed ETA club in Los Angeles. "In the days before portable digital recorders," Huether explains, "NPR reporters and engineers would take machines like this one into the field to capture reporting and bring (or ship) the resultant tapes back to HQ to be edited and incorporated into our broadcasts." We didn't record this Tiny Desk analog, but the spirit remains: a conversation captured in small space, one worth watching — and hearing — over and over again.

SET LIST
"Hearing 3.26.25"

MUSICIANS
Jeff Parker: guitar
Josh Johnson: alto saxophone
Anna Butterss: bass
Jay Bellerose: drums

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Lars Gotrich
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Technical Director: Andie Huether
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame
Audio Engineer: Josh Newell
Production Assistants: Ashley Pointer, Dora Levite
Photographer: Grace Raver
Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

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In January 2025, MailOnline's Chief Foreign Reporter David Averre and cameraman Charlie Craven spent 10 days travelling through Rojava - a Kurdish-led autonomous region in northern Syria.

We see what life is like now for the people who triumphed over the jihadists. We find out how this fledgling democracy in the Middle East is coping with the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the rise of new Islamist rulers HTS. And we discover firsthand the constant threats its people face from Turkey and Turkish-backed militias as they try to rebuild their shattered nation.

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Jason entertained millions of people during the 2020 pandemic after creating a TikTok account that centered around viral skits of his fictional son Derek and his friends, all played by Jason. Now watch Jason return to his stand-up roots as he delivers a must-see performance in his hilarious highly anticipated stand-up special Light Skinned filmed in front of a sold-out audience at Gas South Theatre in Duluth Georgia.

About JasonJason Banks is a veteran stand-up comedian out of Columbus, Ohio. During the 2020 pandemic, Jason created a TikTok account and started making content, which now has since amassed over 9 million followers, over 270 million likes, and over 1 BILLION views. Jason’s viral skits detail the misadventures of his fictional son Derek and his friends, all played by Jason. In addition to creating content online, often inspired by his 10-year-old twins, Jason performs on some of the biggest stages all over the country. After winning numerous competitions in his home state of Ohio — including the “Funniest Person in Columbus Contest” at the Columbus Funny Bone — Jason started touring the U.S. regularly. He’s appeared on both seasons of Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks on TruTV and most recently recorded his first-hour special in Atlanta, which will be released in 2023.

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Crossing Over: Black Greek Life A 4-part mini-series begins exploring Black fraternities and sororities at Louisiana’s HBCUs. Kara St. Cyr explores the “Divine Nine.”

In this full special titled "Souther Comfort" from Mike James, Mike talks about everything from homeschooling to natural birth and even tall people problems. Whether you're someone who got stuck homeschooling during 2020, or you're just someone who needs a good laugh, this full comedy special from Mike James is sure to have you laughing from start to finish.

Go to HBCUstream.com is hosting a 2K Game Esports competition for HBCUs. The competition features the popular basketball video game, NBA 2K, and is being held as a way to promote HBCUs and bring students together virtually through the love of gaming. The event is open to all HBCUs and includes a cash prize for the winning team. HBCUstream.com is an online platform that promotes HBCU events, sports, and culture through live streaming and on-demand content, with a mission to support and promote HBCUs.

Stories about punk music tend to picture thin-framed white guys and girls with shaved heads, part of an angry, energetic scene born out of the working class angst of young white England in the 1970s. But the actual history of punk – as a type of music and movement – is more complicated than that.

Black punks have been an integral and pioneering part of punk history – and they're keeping the movement alive and growing today. Host Sana Saeed explores that history and talks to proto-punk band Death, musician and journalist Greg Tate, the band The 1865 and festival organizer Shawna Shawnté.

Learn more here:
New York Times. “This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk.”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03..../15/arts/music/15rub

Vice. “The Bands Taking British Punk Back to Its Multicultural Roots.” https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/....article/padjev/decol

GQ. “Nazi Punks F**k Off: How Black Flag, Bad Brains and More Took Back Their Scene from White Supremacists.” https://www.gq.com/story/punks....-and-nazis-oral-hist

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A Band Called Death: http://drafthousefilms.com/fil....m/a-band-called-deat
The Universe Is Lit: http://www.theuniverseislit.com/
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp: https://www.bayareagirlsrockcamp.org/
The 1865: https://www.instagram.com/the1865band/

Presented by: Sana Saeed
Edited by: Brian Joseph and Michael Zipkin
Animations by: Chia Liu
Produced by: Sana Saeed and Kathryn Wheeler
Executive Producer: Sarah Nasr


Music tracks courtesy APM, YouTube and The 1865.
Footage and images courtesy of Getty Images, The Universe is Lit, Keep on Knocking, LLC, Ed Marshall Photography NYC, Evan Carter and Paul Rosenfield.

A hilarious journey unfolds as rising comedian, Dwain Watts, takes the stage, weaving witty observations of life, love, manhood, and the quirks of hooking up into a laugh-out-loud stand-up comedy special live from the nation's captial.

The “Divine Nine” Black Greek letter organizations were founded when predominantly white colleges denied black students equal rights. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson takes a look at how they’ve shaped Black leaders in the U.S., like Vice President Kamala Harris and Georgia’s first Black senator, Raphael Warnock.
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An ex-felon (Academy Award-winner Cuba Gooding Jr.) on a path of redemption defies convention and establishes a Chess Club for inner-city teenagers in Washington, D.C.

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James Davis talks about growing up “hood-adjacent”, imagines what Barack Obama would be like as a nightclub DJ, and reveals his new method for getting out of speeding tickets.

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