For Los Angeles-based bassist Anna Butterss, 2026 has been a landmark year. In March, she played upright bass on Flea’s glorious Honora as part of guitarist Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet, who released the splendid live album, Happy Today; and with her SML collective, she made June’s groove-laden Spontaneous Music Live. Beginningless is the first time Butterss, trumpeter John Raymond, and drummer/percussionist Ben Lumsdaine have recorded together, though they’ve been in one another’s circles for some time. In 2010, Butterss and Lumsdaine met as students in Bloomington, Indiana. They’ve worked on several projects together, including both Daniel Villarreal albums and Butterss’ Mighty Vertebrate. After she relocated to Los Angeles, Raymond began…

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