Find the Way
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Aaron Parks (piano), Ben Street (double bass), Billy Hart (drums)
Find the Way
[ ECM / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 June 2017
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For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks - following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as "expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest" - the prize-winning pianist has convened a trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart. The rhythm pair, which also teams in Hart's hit quartet for ECM, blends fluidity and strength - what Parks calls "an oceanic" quality, producing waves of energy for the pianist to alternately ride and dive into. Find the Way has the aura of a piano-trio recording in the classic mold, from melody-rich opener "Adrift" to the closing title track, a cover of a romantic tune Parks grew to love on an LP by Rosemary Clooney and Nelson Riddle. Parks also drew inspiration for this album from the likes of Alice Coltrane and Shirley Horn (for whom Hart played); space and subtlety are a priority.
"The choice of Street and Hart to amplify Parks' vision is a brilliant one. Ben Street follows and comments on the pianist's moves with equal melodic richness, while Hart, his drums exquisitely recorded with just the right amount of reverb to suggest the space around the kit as well as the drums themselves, adds an astonishing richness of sound and the subtlest of rhythmic accents. And yet neither bass nor drums overwhelm what must still be the beating heart of this music, the piano. Chamber classical in its mood, cinematic in its evocation and thoroughly jazzy in its spontaneous creativity and lithe nature, Find The Way is one of the loveliest piano trio discs I expect to hear this year." - Peter Bacon, London Jazz News
Tracks:
Adrift
Song For Sashou
Unravel
Hold Music
The Storyteller
Alice
First Glance
Melquíades
Find The Way
