The quartet around Emile Parisien has been in existence for over twenty years and has recorded countless concerts around the globe. The band's ingenuity and willingness to experiment can be compared to little, but they are audibly inspired by freethinkers like Wayne Shorter or Ornette Coleman. Unbridled creativity and musical playfulness create colorful stories and make each song very individual and yet "typical Parisien". Parisien is one of the most important protagonists of jazz from France. A jazz visionary who has one foot in the past and looks far ahead. His musical coordinates are widely defined, leading from the folkloric tradition of his homeland to the compositional strategies of new music to the melodic and harmonic abstraction of free jazz. The special quality of this broad musical field lies in the matter-of-factness with which it is explored. The special quality of this broad musical field lies in the matter-of-factness with which it is explored. Nothing seems calculated or forced with Parisien.

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