Piano / Keyboards / Electric Piano

Aaron Parks

(1983–)

Parks blurs the boundary between acoustic piano and electronics, creating music that is quiet yet dense. Frequent collaborator with Ambrose Akinmusire and Kurt Rosenwinkel, he builds sound worlds where time seems to slow and expand. His playing rewards close listening — the more you give it, the more it gives back.

Aaron Parks's albums

Spirit Fiction

Joshua Redman · 2012

Spirit FictionSpirit FictionJoshua Redman · 2012 (2012) shows the maturity of the quartet Redman built through the 2000s. Eric HarlandEric Harlandエリック・ハーランド and Aaron ParksAaron Parksアーロン・パークス — both essential to different corners of contemporary jazz — converge in Redman's compositions.

Aaron ParksAaron Parksアーロン・パークス's Blue Note debut Invisible Cinema is a piano trio record that openly acknowledged his generation grew up on indie rock. In JazzTimes he said he consciously quoted Radiohead's harmonic motion.

— Aaron Parks: Little Big and the Long Gestation, JazzTimes, 2018

In 2017 Aaron Parks released Find the Way on ECM with bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart, distilling the harmonic language he had refined since Arborescence into a classic piano-trio frame that prioritizes space and subtlety.

— Find The Way, ECM Records, 2017