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Aaron Parks

Born: October 7, 1983

"Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe the music I make, and the words I picked were ‘spontaneous’ and ‘cinematic,’” says Aaron Parks. Having clarified the essence of his art, the pianist kept those two words closely in mind while conceiving and recording Invisible Cinema, his extraordinary debut for the Blue Note label. In its virtuosity and harmonic complexity, Invisible Cinema speaks to Parks’s immersion in jazz on the highest level, even as it references a wider world of contemporary music-making. “The title has a lot of different meanings,” notes the 24- year-old Seattle native, who is currently based in Brooklyn. “For one thing, Invisible Cinema is what music is, in a sense

Light as a Word

By Remy Le Boeuf

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Bloom; Full Circle; The Melancholy Architecture of Storms; Imperfect Paradise; Union Intro; Union; Mirrors In Your Eyes; Vista Hermosa Intro; Vista Hermosa (For Jon and Brian); Qoo; Traptop; Light as Word

Amanda Suwondo: Revisit

by Mike Jurkovic
March 18, 2021

It's genuinely odd and oddly gratifying that a young native Indonesian whom, after traveling to LA to study with Tamir Hendelman, mentor in New York with Christian Sands, and who now calls the land down under home, can remind one of America's lost, defiant lilt and how badly we need to get it back.

Francesca Remigi: impegno sociale, innovazione e crescita

by Serena Antinucci
March 8, 2021

Il primo disco della batterista e compositrice Francesca Remigi, Il labirinto dei topi, realizzato insieme al gruppo Archipélagos è un progetto complesso e importante, in cui si osserva la società e si esprimono le sue profonde contraddizioni. La batterista di Bergamo ci fa ascoltare il deterioramento delle logiche capitalistiche, lo sfaldamento del sistema sociale e culturale ...

Eric Harland: Time is a joint effort

by Leo Sidran
February 15, 2021

Drummer Eric Harland tells his incredible story of growing up in jny: Houston and how he came to weigh 400lbs by the time he was 16 (he eventually lost the weight in college), attending the Manhattan School of Music, becoming an ordained minister, living with singer Betty Carter during the last year of her life, learning ...

Selections Of Some New Releases From 2020

by Len Davis
January 15, 2021

Music from Aaron Parks, Dusan Jevtovic, Billy Childs and more. Playlist Aaron Parks “Attention Earthlings" from Little Big 2-Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope) 00:00 Rymden “Terminal One" from Space Sailors (Jazzlandl) 06:21 Dusan Jevtovic “Si Pooro" from Now You See Me (Self Produced) 12:41 Bosque “Escape From Urumchi" from escape From Urumchi (Metropolisl) ...

Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Track listing: Attention, Earthlings; Here; Solace; Friends; Is Anything Okay?; The Shadow and The Self; The Storyteller; My Mistake; The Ongoing Pulse of Isness; Where Now; Unknown.

Pistils

By Rajiv Jayaweera

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Pistils; Ellstandissa; Welikadawatte; Galadari; Nilus; The Elephant; Hirimbura; Malkoha Bird; Pistils.

Spirit Science

By Tom Guarna

Label: Destiny Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Trion Re; Platonic Solids; The Genesis Pattern; Spirit Science; Two Circles; A Reflection in a Reflection (for Kofi Burbridge); Metatron's Cube; Source; Lullyaby for Lena.

Lagos Pepper Soup

By Michael Olatuja

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Even Now Prayer; Lagos Pepper Soup; The Hero’s Journey; Soki; Ma Foya; Brighter Day; Shadows Fade; Home True; Bola’s Song; Mivakpola; Leye’s Dance; Grace.