Aaron Parks - Little Big III - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pianist and composer Aaron Parks expands his trio with bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart into a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon on his luminous third Blue Note album, By All Means. Although Parks has made his band Little Big the center of his recorded output in recent years, he never stopped writing music that belonged to a different harmonic universe influenced by the likes of Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Duke Ellington, Joe Henderson, and others.

Maggini Quartet - String Quartets 1 2 & 5 [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/07/1992

2010 album from the Jazz pianist. Backed by drummer Eric Harland and bassist Reuben Rogers, and augment by Mark Turner's angular tenor saxophone, Aaron Goldberg's varied and vivid variations of the entire Jazz piano spectrum, his Tatumesque technique, his Evanesque colors, and his Jamal-style arrangements, imbue the CD's 10 tracks with an amazing assortment of foreign and familiar motifs that dance and trance, and sing and swing in a universal musical statement that translates into high art.