Description:
Artist : Aaron Parks
Album : Invisible Cinema
Label : Blue Note Records Source : CD
Cat. No. : 09011 Size : 75.63 MB
Genre : Jazz StrDate: 2008-08-19
_ Quality : 179kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2008-08-18 _
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If ever there were a supporting case for the importance of
mentoring in jazz, it would be Aaron Parks. The pianist began
playing with trumpeter Terence Blanchard in 2003 at the age of 18
and, over the course of three albums culminating in last year's
deeply moving A Tale of God's Will (Blue Note, 2007), has grown
into a mature player whose early promise is already being
realized. With inimitable technique and open ears, he seems to
have bypassed the youthful peril where technique is the end
rather than the means. On his debut as a leader, Parks proves
himself a player and composer of great depth, with a truly
cinematic vision that embraces the challenge of complexity as
much as it does the demand of creating simple, evocative
melodies.
Parks has recruited a stellar group of rising stars for Invisible
Cinema. Guitarist Mike Moreno's Between the Lines (World Culture
Music, 2007) was a masterful debut, demonstrating similar
maturity beyond his age and an embracive approach blending
tradition with progressive elements. The increasingly in-demand
bassist Matt Penman marries pulse and melody, matching Parks'
ability to shift from knotty rhythms to near-folkloric innocence.
Drummer Eric Harland's broad reach has found him equally
comfortable with the spiritually invested free play of
saxophonist Charles Lloyd's Rabo de Nube (ECM, 2008) and the more
explosive energy of guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's The Remedy
(ArtistShare, 2008). Together, they're a flexible quartet that
blends the language of jazz with more contemporary and, at times,
powerful indie rock concerns.
The opening 揟ravelers?marries ethereality with fervency in
equal doses, Parks' solo a marvel of layered spontaneity that
leans towards classicism in addition to jazz orthodoxy. A trio
track where Harland and Penman push the insistent groove with
nuance rather than overt power, it sets a high bar for the rest
of the disc.
Moreno joins for the episodic 揚eaceful Warrior,?where lyricism
and Pat Metheny-esque expansiveness still allow plenty of
freedom. Parks and Moreno trade lengthy choruses over its 9/8
middle section, Penman and Harland pushing and pulling the two
soloists as they weave in and around the changes.
If Radiohead were more sophisticated they might record a track
like 揘emesis.?Harland's backbeat and Parks' repetitive piano
figure drive Moreno's sharp, overdriven melody, another solo
section where guitar and piano again alternate, hypnotically
building the energy. Piano is Parks' main axe, but here he layers
mellotron, glockenspiel and additional keyboards to create an
image-rich soundscape. The group revisits 揌arvesting Dance,?
from Blanchard's Flow (Blue Note, 2005), but Parks' smaller
line-up breathes more, its Spanish ambience building into a fiery
solo from Moreno that's a highlight of the disc.
For an artist not yet 25, Invisible Cinema is refreshingly fully
formed梐mongst the year's best releases, it represents one
possible future of jazz. With plenty to appeal to long-term,
open-minded jazz fans, Parks' incorporation of familiar reference
points also makes it a good bet to attract younger listeners.
Tracklisting:
01. Aaron Parks - Travelers 5:34
02. Aaron Parks - Peaceful Warrior 9:39
03. Aaron Parks - Nemesis 6:14
04. Aaron Parks - Riddle Me This 2:43
05. Aaron Parks - Into The Labyrinth 2:53
06. Aaron Parks - Karma 8:06
07. Aaron Parks - Roadside Distraction 2:44
08. Aaron Parks - Harvesting Dance 9:35
09. Aaron Parks - Praise 4:43
10. Aaron Parks - Afterglow 2:45
Total: 00:54:56
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