The 33-year-old pianist Aaron Parks first attracted the attention of the jazz cognoscenti playing in one of trumpeter Terence Blanchard's most inspiring line-ups (one that also included the guitarist Lionel Loueke) in the early to mid-noughties. Blanchard's label Blue Note took notice of his individualistic musical personality and signed the Seattle-born pianist-composer – who's also been a member of supergroup James Farm and Kurt Rosenwinkel's touring band, among others. He delivered the goods, releasing a striking debut Invisible Cinema for them in 2008. But Parks has since found a new home at ECM and not coincidentally a mellower, low-light ambient approach that favours reflectively minimalist song forms above rootsy jazz improv. Following the acclaimed solo piano ECM debut Aborescence in 2013, he releases a piano trio recording Find the Way. The emphasis is on a three-as-one collective dialogue, both sonically and in the melodic and rhythmic interplay of the unit. The acute sensitivity of Parks' partners: the versatile double-bassist Ben Street and vastly experienced veteran drummer Billy Hart hit a deliciously free-floating yet softly propulsive groove. Cresting waves through his compositions, Parks rides on top and can sound like an aqua Bill Evans on ‘First Glance’, at other times, like a post-minimalist Brad Meldhau. He captures the tender, breezy signature of a Jobim bossa on the dreamy ‘Song for Sashou’. It's also a tune on which Parks opens up a bit in terms of plain improvising; with his abundant resources it's something you might have hoped would happen more frequently.