Dark and Deep (Green Monkey) LP

Dark and Deep is Jeff Parkhurst’s solo debut, 12 years in the making. Jeff is first and foremost a highly skilled drummer, but here he makes his first public foray as a singer, a multi-instrumentalist and most importantly, a songwriter, with nine quite varied songs that somehow congeal into an exceptional whole. It is an artistic vision, solitary yet supported, cultivated over time. How did this happen? In 2022 long-time Olympia musician Jeff approached producer Tom Dyer about pulling together a group of songs that he had been chipping away at for years, all in various states of completion, recorded in many places under a variety of circumstances. They began consolidating the bones of these songs and twisting them into something completely new. Jeff took tracks that he had recorded on a solo piano 10 years before and added new drums that absolutely grooved. He pulled up the late beat poet Charles Adler to get the festivities free-wheelin’ and then added space-jazz guitarist Joe Mailhot