Jeff Parker shares cover of John Coltrane’s “Miles’ Mode”
CREDITS
Composed by:
Coltrane, John (JOWCOL Music, BMI)
Performed by:
Chris Speed – tenor saxophone
Jeff Parker – electric guitar
Kaveh Rastegar – electric bass guitar
Aaron Gilbert Steele – drums
Recorded and engineered by Kaveh Rastegar, March 13, 2026, in San Marino, California.
Mixed by Dave Vettraino and Scott McNiece at International Anthem Studios in Chicago, Illinois.
Mastered by David Allen at International Anthem Studios in Portland, Oregon.
Cover art by Kaveh Rastegar.
This was recorded in celebration of the centennial year of John Coltrane’s birth. Happy 100th birthday, Trane!
“Miles’ Mode” is out now, buy/stream it here.
Today, guitarist Jeff Parker shares a cover of John Coltrane’s composition “Miles’ Mode” in celebration of Coltrane’s 100th birthday. Parker is joined by Chris Speed (The Bad Plus) on tenor saxophone, Kaveh Rastegar (Kneebody) on electric bass, and Aaron Steele (Chrome Sparks) on drums for this recording. Listen to “Miles’ Mode” here.
Parker says: “John Coltrane has been a steady muse for me ever since I started to study his music at a young age. It’s an honor to pay tribute to him on the occasion of his centennial with three of my favorite musicians from the Los Angeles music community.”
This release follows Parker’s critically-acclaimed album with his ETA IVtet, Happy Today, which was released by International Anthem & Nonesuch Records in May 2026. In a Pitchfork profile of Parker, Grayson Haver Currin wrote of Happy Today: “With the rhythmic elasticity of a beat tape and the tonal splendor of almost everything he has ever done, it is a 44-minute synthesis of Parker’s last six decades.” Read the full feature here.
The record’s accompanying album-length concert film was captured by director Charlie Weinmann at the 2025 performance at Los Angeles’s Lodge Room that became Happy Today. Watch the concert film here.
Additionally, a limited edition color vinyl reissue of Parker’s Suite for Max Brown, his 2020 album that features a Coltrane cover, “After the Rain,” is available October 23. Suite for Max Brown received “Best New Music” honors from Pitchfork, as did Parker’s albums Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy (2022), and The Way Out of Easy (2024). His 2021 solo guitar album, Forfolks, was included in Pitchfork’s “Best Albums of the Year.”
Parker has also performed twice at NPR’s Tiny Desk in the last two years, first with ETA IVtet in 2025 for a performance NPR named one of the best Tiny Desks of the year, and with Flea and the Honora Band in 2026. Flea, who tapped Parker as a key collaborator for his debut album Honora and the subsequent world tour with the Honora Band (also including Butterss and Johnson), describes the depth of Parker’s playing this way: “there’s this river of music inside of Jeff — all the stillness and the violence and the chaos and the absolute ethereal beauty that he can bring to music through his playing. It’s just all there.”