Aaron Parks
Piano / Keyboards / Electric Piano

Aaron Parks

(1983–)

Aaron Parks (b. 1983) — Piano, Keyboards. Led Invisible Cinema, Little Big. Worked with Ambrose Akinmusire, Derrick Hodge, Lionel Loueke.

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.

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

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Aaron Parks's leader album

Invisible Cinema
Invisible Cinema
Aaron Parks · 2008
Little Big
Little Big
Aaron Parks · 2018
Flow
Flow
Terence Blanchard · 2005
Spirit Fiction
Spirit Fiction
Joshua Redman · 2012

Aaron Parks plays keys on Flow (2005) — a name in the small print on someone else's record. He had entered university at 14 and joined that band while still a teenager; his own Invisible Cinema came three years later, in 2008. The sideman credit is the earlier one.

Aaron Parks's albums