Aaron Parks

Invisible Cinema

Aaron Parks · 2008

Little Big

Aaron Parks · 2018

Flow

Terence Blanchard · 2005

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.

Spirit Fiction

Joshua Redman · 2012

Spirit FictionSpirit FictionJoshua Redman · 2012 (2012) shows the maturity of the quartet Redman built through the 2000s. Eric HarlandEric Harlandエリック・ハーランド and Aaron ParksAaron Parksアーロン・パークス — both essential to different corners of contemporary jazz — converge in Redman's compositions.

New York Second Line

Art Blakey · 1983

Magnetic

Terence Blanchard · 2013

Flow

Terence Blanchard · 2005

Wandering Moon

Terence Blanchard · 2000

Terence Blanchard has picked up multiple Oscar nominations for film scoring, but his career started as a 20-year-old trumpeter. He was tapped to replace Wynton Marsalis in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, appearing on the band's 1983 record New York Second Line.

Black Radio

Robert Glasper Experiment · 2012

Heaven and Earth

Kamasi Washington · 2018

Live Today

Derrick Hodge · 2013

Black Messiah

D'Angelo and The Vanguard · 2014

Chris DaveChris Daveクリス・デイヴ appears on 16 albums — Black RadioBlack RadioRobert Glasper Experiment · 2012, Heaven and EarthHeaven and EarthKamasi Washington · 2018, Black MessiahBlack MessiahD'Angelo and The Vanguard · 2014. The drummer called to every genre-crossing session.