Piano trios... can’t get enough of them? Well, if so, by the time October has come around you might have gone completely cold turkey after PianoTrioFest has been and gone... and you’ll be raring to go once again.

Luckily then is news of the Aaron Parks trio coming to tour. It’s two years since we last heard from Parks first of all on South Korean singer Yeahwon Shin’s debut for ECM Lua ya the former Terence Blanchard pianist quietly probing and navigating on a beyond-genre late night listening lullaby album. And that wasn’t all by any means.

Parks, who besides his now increasingly distant tenure with Blanchard, put out several highly rated albums most notably Invisible Cinema for Blue Note five years earlier, had also earlier in 2013 self-released a standards album Live in Japan. But he would trump everything in a massive career high with solo piano album Arborescence.

With a sound as softly precise as Tord Gustavsen’s, as devastatingly rhapsodic as Brad Mehldau’s, as complex and opaque as Jason Moran’s and as detailed as Vijay Iyer’s above all there’s a defiantly natural element to his sense of flow both in terms of harmonic progression and compositional narrative that he shares with all these top contemporary players.

Parks is over with the ex-Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Charles Lloyd drummer Billy Hart who featured on such landmark albums as Mwandishi, On The Corner and The Call; and completing the trio bassist Ben Street who is a member of Hart’s tremendous quartet that recorded One is the Other released just last year. 

Piecing together the tour, dates are: Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on 1 October; Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 2 Oct; Djanogly Recital Room, Nottingham, 3 Oct; Turner Sims, Southampton, 6 Oct; Kings Place, London, 7 Oct and St George’s, Bristol, 8 Oct. A member of James Farm, Parks will also return for the London Jazz Festival in November.