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Invisible Cinema [CD]

Aaron Parks | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (15 Sep 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Blue Note
  • ASIN: B001CFLHJA
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 83,346 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Travelers 5:34£0.89
Listen  2. Peaceful Warrior 9:39£0.89
Listen  3. Nemesis 6:14£0.89
Listen  4. Riddle Me This 2:43£0.89
Listen  5. Into The Labyrinth 2:53£0.89
Listen  6. Karma 8:06£0.89
Listen  7. Roadside Distraction 2:44£0.89
Listen  8. Harvesting Dance 9:35£0.89
Listen  9. Praise 4:43£0.89
Listen10. Afterglow 2:45£0.89

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BBC Review

Debuts rarely announce a talent already mature and fully formed, but Invisible Cinema from the Seattle-born, Brooklyn, New York-based pianist Aaron Parks, emphatically does so with an album of considerable scope brimming over with sophistication.

That Parks's solo debut is on jazz label par excellence Blue Note makes a pretty formidable statement about the 25-year-old's immaculate ability to effortlessly position himself, at one deftly executed move, at the forefront of a new jazz generation.

Invisible Cinema features Parks as both impressively articulate soloist and no less eloquent composer, and finds him in the company of guitarist Mike Moreno, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland. Individually, all four pack a hefty punch; together they prove a knockout combination.

Parks insists there is a particular narrative in the 10-track ''sequence, song titles and everything'' but shrewdly stops there. If you are intent on discovering what the secret story in this Invisible Cinema is, the only place you'll find it is in the music. And what music it is!

Displaying a sovereign command of structure, Parks also leaves plenty of room for free interaction and the resulting amalgam is as thoughtfully-constructed and compelling a piece of music-making as any I've encountered this year. Particularly admirable is the elegantly knowing way in which the beguiling surface simplicity of the music disguises the multi-faceted complexity beneath. So you'll find allusions to Blues music on Roadside Distraction, to Orbital's In Sides (I kid you not!) on Nemesis, to rock music, John Zorn's Masada and, if you listen hard enough, Bulgarian music on Harvesting Dance.

Invisible Cinema confirms the promise and potential glimpsed in Parks's dozen and more outings as a sideman to the likes of Terence Blanchard, Ferenc Nemeth and Ambrose Akinmusire. It also reveals him to be a master of melody, and a composer and arranger of protean skill and dexterity.

At the keyboard (and doubling up on mellotron and glockenspiel) Parks is no less impressive and draws finely attuned, richly characterised and reciprocal playing from his young fellow cohorts to turn in one of the great albums of 2008. --Michael Quinn

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
InTechnicolour 21 Nov 2010
By Wavey
Format:Audio CD
This is a disc which grows and grows on me, at times it is almost prog rock and the first few times you hear this aspect of the disc it almost detracts from the overall enjoyment but, as it grows and I become more familiar with the tunes then it becomes overall a really enjoyable disc as the tunes just seem to evolve and hook me. Some tracks are monsters, such as Nemesis and Harvesting Dance, others seem to be just flowing easily such as Riddle Me This and Roadside Distraction but they all just have me hooked despite the different scale(as in proportion) It is fresh and while it evokes Frisell, Mehldau, Metheny etc it never mimics them and as such I think it will be interesting to watch Aaron Parks develop. I highly recommend this as any fan of contemporary jazz will love it.
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Contemporary Jazz 2 May 2011
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A very nice album with some particularly captivating tracks. The feel of this form of jazz is different enough from the past but similar enough in terms of sentiment. Park's experimentation is interesting and there is a constant exploratio of time signatures and rhythms.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
The New Jazz 17 Sep 2008
By Carl C. Jackson - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Recently, I was lamenting about the passage of many of our jazz greats due to age, sickness, etc. I told my wife that the current generation of musicians don't seem to be interested in nuturing our beloved music with taste and technical prowess. I was wrong. There is a new group of young jazz lions out there and Aaron Parks is at the front of the the pack! In fact, on a recent trip to New York City, we were lucky enough to catch Aaron and a stunningly brillient guitarist named Mike Moreno at New York's "Jazz Standard" club. The music these young men put down was all at once beautiful and intricate. I could not believe my ears. So, I purchased the Aaron Parks CD and was not let down. I've now listened to it multiple times and it keeps getting better. It is inventive and thick with excellent playing. Buy it.
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
this is unusually enjoyable 6 Sep 2008
By eliot gardenstreet - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
One test of an album is, how many times do I want to listen to it? I listened to this one five times before I took a break. That's a lot for me. Usually I'm relieved to get through a new album so I can go back to something I really like. I switched to The Brian Blade Fellowship's Season of Changes for comparison, but I couldn't get through it before I had to go back to Invisible Cinema for another listen. There are at least four things that make this album so satisfying to me. First, there is the physical quality of the playing. Aaron Parks and Mike Moreno both have a beautiful touch, delicate, precise, and supremely confident. Second, there's a lot of variety on this album. In different places it reminds of Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, Radiohead, The Pat Metheny Group, world music, and more, but I like Invisible Cinema more than anything I've recently heard from these other artists. Third, Parks makes excellent use of harmonies and other ideas from progressive pop. He even gives us a great bluesy number in "Roadside Distraction" and a great folky number in "Praise." Fourth, despite the variety, the album is unified by a very strong artistic vision. Ben Ratliff in his recent "Critics' Choice" blurb questioned the clarity and consistency of Parks's leadership here, but in my opinion this is just further evidence of Ratliff's unreliability as a critic.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Modern piano 8 Nov 2008
By Anthony Cooper - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Aaron Parks take a shot at defining modern piano with "Invisible Cinema". If you've heard the Terence Blanchard and Christian Scott CD's that Parks played on, this CD will feel familiar. Parks plays a relatively spare piano, and the songs sound like they're in a minor key. The relative effect is more of a quiet Vijay Iyer than Brad Mehldau. Guitarist Mike Moreno is on hand to support the song and piano playing. His few solos are very good, though. Some of the songs are rock-inspired, which means Radiohead-esque. These are more likely to have simple, repeated eighth-note lines.

This is a jazz CD which will appeal to rock fans that crossover to jazz, and any jazz fan who likes to stay current.
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