Jazz Articles about Aaron Parks

About Aaron Parks

Album Review

When Aaron Parks first appeared with Terence Blanchard, the then-19-year old pianist with wild hair and rumpled clothing made him indistinguishable from many of the young jazz fans who came to see Blanchard's return from the world of Spike Lee film scores. Looks can be deceiving though as Parks would later become a key contributor to Blanchard's phenomenal sextet, Flow. Parks is now the third member of that unit to go out on his own, and Invisible Cinema is, by ...

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New York Beat

Aaron Parks' Invisible Cinema

by Nick Catalano
July 11, 2008

Some ten years ago when I was speaking at the annual Clifford Brown Festival in Wilmington Delaware, I ran across a remarkable family. The “Parkses" (a family of four represented at the festival by mother & son) were there, excited by the prospect that young Aaron, age 14 or so, and his young compatriots (winners of a jazz competition) were selected to perform. The youngsters were talented and entertaining but what I remember most about the encounter were conversations with ...