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  • Name: Aaron Parks
  • City/Place: Brooklyn, NY
  • Country: United States
  • Hometown: Seattle, Washington

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  • What's Up? “Arborescence” is the word for the way something grows, seeking and adaptive, like a tree – its roots and branches moving under and around things wherever they need to go toward water, toward the sun. Prize-winning young pianist Aaron Parks titled his ECM debut Arborescence because the album’s music is the fruit of a session of solo studio improvisation in which little was predetermined; the pieces developed in the moment like “living things,” in the artist’s words. “

    The music felt as if it were coming into being and going where it had to go, in that sort of arboreal way.” It’s possible to hear fleeting echoes in this music of Arvo Pärt and Paul Bley, Erik Satie and Kenny Wheeler; but Arborescence is ultimately something deeply individual and intimate, recorded with the lights down low in the warm, clear acoustics of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts.

    Listen close and one can hear Parks whispering part of a melody along with the piano, as if he were playing at home alone, for himself. This is contemplative instrumental poetry that “often felt less like conscious intention,” he says, “and more like something half-dreamed, half-remembered.”

Life & Work

  • Bio: Pianist Aaron Parks is a forward-thinking jazz musician who came to the public's attention during his time with trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

    Born in Seattle, Washington, Parks began playing piano at a young age and by the time he was 14 had enrolled in an early entrance degree program at the University of Washington. Originally, Parks pursued both science and music degrees; however, his prodigious talent won out and by age 16 he had transferred to the Manhattan School of Music. While there, he studied with noted pianist Kenny Barron and received several competitive accolades, including being named the 2001 Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association.

    At age 18 he joined Blanchard's ensemble and subsequently recorded four albums with the veteran trumpeter, including 2003's Bounce, 2005's Flow, the soundtrack to the 2006 Spike Lee film Inside Man, and Blanchard's 2007 Grammy-winning opus A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina).

    Besides playing with Blanchard, Parks has performed with a variety of artists including trumpeter Christian Scott, drummer Kendrick Scott, vocalist Gretchen Parlato, and others.

    Parks has released several albums under his own name, including his 2008 Blue Note debut, Invisible Cinema. Parks, who has also recorded with Christian Scott, Kendrick Scott, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Kurt Rosenwinkel, was an integral part of the James Farm Quartet with Joshua Redman, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland. Nonesuch released their self-titled album in 2011.

    The pianist subsequently signed to ECM and released the solo piano offering Arborescence in the fall of 2013. He also made sideman appearances on Will Vinson's Live at Smalls and Yeahwon Shin's Lua Ya, and Live in Japan with his own trio of Thomas Morgan and RJ Miller. It was recorded on the pianist's phone during a show and released for free on his Bandcamp page.

    Find the Way, his sophomore label date for ECM, was issued in late spring of 2017. It featured bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart in the rhythm section and was inspired in part (according to Parks) by the music of Alice Coltrane and Shirley Horn (for whom Hart played); both of whom prioritized space and subtlety in composition and improvisation.

Contact Information

  • Management/Booking: Management
    Tommy Wilson
    [email protected]

    Booking
    Maria José Galindo (Worldwide)
    [email protected]
    Ryan Anderson (North America)
    [email protected]

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Buy My Music: http://aaronparks.bandcamp.com/
  • ▶ Twitter: aparksmusic
  • ▶ Instagram: aparksmusic
  • ▶ Website: http://www.aaronparks.com
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvY6ZOsqPTUlWSgl6jPFTWg
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC4mZBHwCY1rATrADJIOHJIQ
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0H2PGA1jUGuUQgxdW3Oyzn
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1Ar01FQjqOGYbYgUnpQBsu
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/3xfueIrMUw57owAiYVKt8S
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/2yRchatpprc3DnmCqL4Ybl
  • ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/4xjys0dhhX8AD2Oiz5Y5S6
  • ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/0zY1rkYkwCiUKPCQxqAAb9

Clips (more may be added)

  • "Kid" (live) - Aaron Parks Little Big
    By Aaron Parks
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  • UArts Masterclass Series: Conversation with Aaron Parks
    By Aaron Parks
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