Aaron Parks

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Aaron Parks at a concert in the Treibhaus Innsbruck 2011

Aaron Parks (born October 7, 1983 in Seattle ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , composition).

Live and act

Parks grew up on Whidbey Island and began playing the piano as a child . At the age of fourteen he was given the opportunity to study at the University of Washington . At sixteen he presented a first album and moved to the Manhattan School of Music , where he had lessons with Kenny Barron and in 2001 received the Cole Porter Scholarship from the American Pianists Association . At the age of eighteen he began his career with Terence Blanchard , to be heard on his albums Bounce (2003), Flow (2005) and on the soundtrack to the Spike Lee film Inside Man (2006). He also appeared in Blanchard's Requiem for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina , A Tale of God's Will (2007), which won a Grammy .

After a number of releases on smaller labels, Parks recorded the album Invisible Cinema in 2008 on Blue Note with musicians such as Matt Penman , Eric Harland and Mike Moreno . In 2013 he made his solo debut with ECM , in which John Fordham , the critic of the British daily newspaper The Guardian , heard influences from Béla Bartók as well as from Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett and gave Parks a brightly shining musicality. He is also a member of the collaborative formation James Farm around saxophonist Joshua Redman , whose second album City Folk won an ECHO Jazz in 2016.

In addition, Parks u. a. with Ambrose Akinmusire , Christian Scott , Kendrick Scott , Walter Smith III , Gretchen Parlato , Kurt Rosenwinkel and Ben van Gelder . He composed for his own projects, but also for Blanchard, Akinmusire, van Gelder, Monika Borzym and Dayna Stephens .

Aaron Parks (2014)

Discographic notes

  • The Promise (1999)
  • First Romance (2000)
  • The Wizard (2001)
  • Shadows (2002)
  • Invisible Cinema (2008)
  • Arborescence (2013)
  • Find the Way (2017)
  • Little Big (Ropeadope, 2018)
  • Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arborescence (Review) The Guardian, October 10, 2013
  2. ↑ James Farm at Allmusic (English)
  3. ^ Review of JazzTimes , September 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Parks, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle