Aaron Parks

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

Life and work

Parks grew up on Whidbey Iceland and started playing piano as a child. At age fourteen he was offered 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 studied with Kenny Barron and 2001 received the Cole Porter Fellowship from the American Pianists Association. At eighteen, he began his career with Terence Blanchard, to listen to his albums Bounce ( 2003), Flow ( 2005) and on the soundtrack to the Spike Lee film Inside Man (2006). He had also been Blanchard's Requiem for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina, A Tale of God 's Will (2007 ), which was awarded a Grammy. In addition, working farms and Others with Ambrose Akinmusire, Christian Scott, Kendrick Scott, Walter Smith III and Gretchen Parlato. After a series of releases on smaller labels Blue Note with musicians like Matt Penman, Eric Harland and Mike Moreno, he took the 2008 album Invisible Cinema on. Park is also a member of the formation James Farm at the saxophonist Joshua Redman.

2013 Park published by ECM his solo debut, in which John Fordham, the critic of the British newspaper The Guardian, Bela Bartok as well as influences of Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett heard and parks summoned a brightly glowing musicality.

Disco Graphical Notes

• The Promise (1999)
• First Romance (2000)
• The Wizard (2001)
• Shadows ( 2002)
• Invisible Cinema ( 2008)
• Arborescence (2012 )