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Emile Parisien Quintet

Label: ACT music
Format: CD
Barcode: 0614427983725

Catalog number: ACT 98372
Releasedate: 30-09-16

- besides Emilie Parisien's close friend and musical brother-in-arms, the accordionist Vincent Peirani, another special guest joins the ensemble: French jazz legend and mentor to Parisien, Michel Portal.

Emile Parisien / soprano & tenor saxophone
Joachim Kühn / piano
Manu Codjia / guitar
Simon Tailleu / double bass
Mario Costa / drums

Guests (on 03 - 05 & 09):
Michel Portal / bass clarinet
Vincent Peirani / accordion

The reference points on Parisien’s personal musical map are very widely spread indeed. They range from the popular folk traditions of his homeland to the compositional rigour of contemporary classical music, and also to the abstraction of free jazz. And yet everything he does has a naturalness and authenticity about it. Rather than appearing pre-meditated or constrained, his music has a flow, he traverses genres with a remarkable fleetness of foot and an effortless inevitability.

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