MAR 17-20 | Piano Week
Mar 20, 2022
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
The visionary pianist and composer returns to SFJAZZ with an intimate solo performance.
A prodigious artist who attended the University of Washington at age 14 with a triple-major in computer science, mathematics, and music before entering the prestigious Manhattan School of Music at 16 to study with the great Kenny Barron, Parks is best known for his work with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, with whom he has recorded three albums and appeared on his soundtracks to the Spike Lee films Inside Man, She Hate Me, and When the Levees Broke.
A Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association, a Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship recipient, and finalist at the 2006 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, Parks has made memorable marks as a sideman, working with Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dayna Stephens, Gretchen Parlato, Kendrick Scott, Dave Holland, and Ambrose Akinmusire, among others. He was part of the all-star quartet James Farm with Joshua Redman, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland, and his evocative 2008 Blue Note quartet session Invisible Cinema helped put the pianist on the map as a serious composer and bandleader. This evening of solo piano harkens back to his expansive 2013 solo release Arborescence, his debut for ECM Records.
This evening of solo piano harkens back to Parks's expansive 2013 solo release Arborescence, his debut for ECM Records.
A brilliant, visionary talent
JazzTimes
A brilliant, visionary talent
JazzTimes
Personnel
Aaron Parks piano
Clouds of ambient, classical, indie rock, hip-hop and indigenous folk music collide like subatomic particles in an atom-smashing jazz accelerator.
NPR
Personnel
Aaron Parks piano
Clouds of ambient, classical, indie rock, hip-hop and indigenous folk music collide like subatomic particles in an atom-smashing jazz accelerator.
NPR
Watch & Listen
Aaron Parks
Toward Awakening
Aaron Parks
In Pursuit
Aaron Parks
Toward Awakening
Aaron Parks
In Pursuit
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