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Thursday, October 23
Triple Door, 7pm & 9:30pm CALL 206-838-4333 FOR TICKETS OR BUY ONLINE
Aaron Parks Trio
$22 general

Aaron ParksSeattle's maturing prodigy returns from New York City on the heels of his acclaimed Blue Note release, Invisible Cinema. The young pianist's major-label debut comes after experiences in guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel's band and a five-year stint with trumpeter Terence Blanchard's band. Parks thinks touring the globe with Blanchard helped him emerge from an accelerated musical education. At 15 Parks pursued a double major in computer science and music as an early-entrance student at the University of Washington. Then, at 16, the precocious student left for the Manhattan School of Music and lessons with Kenny Barron. "I finished college at 18, but the real school started right after that in [Blanchard's] band — the school of the road," Parks says in a recent radio interview for WBGO in New York. Thanks to Blanchard's leadership approach, Parks offers a similar mutual trust on the bandstand. From ambient and rock to classical and world-folk music, Parks brings his musical tastes to bear on the Blue Note release, and the group — Mike Moreno, guitar; Thomas Morgan, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums — expands on that music for Seattle audiences.

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