"Aaron Parks has not only composed a strong continuation of his debut on Blue Note from 2008 Invisible Cinema but he has increased the range of the pleasures he first introduced there. Little Big sounds like a wide universe but also a consistent one, a large canvas composed by a single artist with intention. It will carry you easily into 2019"

"The album shares its title with the 1981 award-winning fantasy novel by John Crowley. This 15-song set is the proper sequel to Invisible Cinema. Few artists in 2008 were bridging the aesthetics of post-bop jazz, hip-hop, and indie rock, let alone articulating them in a single compositional voice. Here Parks continues to create episodic, accessible, yet mysterious melodies, framed by layered textures, rock dynamics, and electro-acoustic atmospherics amid shifting harmonic narratives and solos"