AARON PARKS

Pianist Aaron Parks, known as sideman to Kurt Rosenwinkel and Terence Blanchard, plays jazz with the dynamic texture of contemporary alternative rock. JazzTimes counts him among the new visionaries of contemporary jazz. His recent CD Invisible Cinema appeared on Blue Note. ‘A different sort of piano jazz record… everything is in this mix: classical influence, bop-based grooves, rock attitude, film-score drama and hip-hop textures’ (Boston Globe).