GENERAL: Aaron Parks: To the Big Screen, and Back to the Jazz Scene

"Aaron Parks: Seattle's Boy Genius" is not the story anymore. The local jazz piano prodigy, who went to the University of Washington straight out of junior high, is now 25, living in New York City for the past eight years. He's moved into movies, assisting his mentor Terence Blanchard on soundtracks for Spike Lee's Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke" (among other Lee titles) as well as the filmic adaptation of "Their Eyes Were Watching God"; and Parks has a new album out called "Invisibl...

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