Louise Emile Parisien Sextet SKU: ACTLP9943-1 Barcode: 0614427994318 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT Released Date: 28th January 2022 Buying Format: 180g 1LP 45rpm Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info A musical journey with Emile Parisien is an adventure, something way out of the ordinary. The soprano saxophonist’s sound is instantly recognisable – as is the way with the greats – and you know that you are in the best possible company to set off for a destination shrouded in uncertainty. For the past twenty years, the one-time child prodigy of Marciac has found ways to astonish, to shake up and to enchant listeners with colourful and productive experiments. His driving force is a passion which seems physically to take hold of him as he plays. Anyone who has seen his development as a performer knows what he’s about; there is an element of the dance but also the tension of a coiled spring. And among the musicians who seek him out are not only the very best of his own generation but also the jazz masters, such is his reputation both as a leader and as an inspirational partner. As a musician he is one of a kind, with a power to be evocative and to bring convincing shape to the unpredictable. His musical language can express sudden frenzy, keeping the listener completely on tenterhooks, but there are also outbursts of tenderness and a palpable emotional honesty. ‘Louise’ takes its title from Louise Bourgeois and more specifically her sculpture of a spider, ‘Maman’. Her monumental work has motherhood as its theme, also conveyed through the metaphor of weaving, an underlying thread that runs through Emile Parisien’s creation. He has assembled a group of musicians who bridge the two sides of the Atlantic. The saxophonist has set out to combine the essence of jazz with his own purposes; so, what shines through here are both his kaleidoscopic imagination and his appetite for breaking down barriers. Three American musicians are in the group, all of them friends whom he has got to know over time. Their eagerness to engage in fruitful conversations with a trio consisting of Parisien himself and two of his closest colleagues from France is miraculous. All kinds of nuances and a confluence of influences are to be heard here. We find variations of pace from skittering syncopations to the softly majestic. Textures are meticulously calibrated, with a broad palette of instrumental colours both in the original compositions and in a burning cover of Joe Zawinul’s ‘Madagascar’. This collective endeavour leaves plenty of room for individual inventiveness, yet there is a happy balance between the different personalities as well. Emile Parisien, always hyperalert, knows when to step back and to leave the initiative to his partners, but will then re-enter authoritatively and be the catalyst who completely re-energise them. ‘Louise’ is just magnificent in its twists and turns, and in the way it celebrates the sheer joy of the groove. ACT have taken a path towards intoxicating freedom with a team of artists in complete balance both individually and collectively. Through its subtle amalgamation of diffidence and affirmation, this pellucid music tells us the truth about life. LP on 45rpm 180g vinyl with digital download code. Artist Emile Parisien Sextet Genre Jazz Label ACT Buying Options 180g 1LP 45rpm Format 180g , 1LP , 45rpm , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Louise (Emile Parisien) Madagascar (Joe Zawinul) Memento Part I (Emile Parisien) Memento Part II (Emile Parisien) Memento Part III (Emile Parisien) Il giorno della civetta (Roberto Negro) Jojo (Emile Parisien) Jungle Jig (Manu Codjia) Prayer 4 Peace (Theo Croker) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens Jazz | Blue Note | 2LP Released 29th June 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 6758849 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thelonious Monk Mulligan Meets Monk Jazz | Birdland | 1LP, Includes CD Released 18th November 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thelonious Monk Mulligan Meets Monk £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Birdland SKU: BIRD014 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 18th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins Sonny Meets Hawk – Mono Jazz | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 8th July 2010 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins Sonny Meets Hawk – Mono £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: LPM2712 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 8th July 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Herbie Hancock Takin’ Off Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 10th May 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Herbie Hancock Takin’ Off £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 7742399 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis ESP Jazz | Impex Records | 180g, 1LP Released 10th January 2014 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis ESP £45.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impex Records SKU: AIMX6018 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Illinois Jacquet Swing’s The Thing (mono) Jazz | Analogue Productions | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 3rd December 2012 £50.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Illinois Jacquet Swing’s The Thing (mono) £50.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AVRJ802345 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 3rd December 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alfa Mist Variables Jazz | Anti | 1LP Released 21st April 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alfa Mist Variables £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Anti SKU: 279511 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wes Montgomery Maxiumum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recording Jazz | Resonance Records | 3LP Released 24th November 2023 £58.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Wes Montgomery Maxiumum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recording £58.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Resonance Records SKU: HLP-9067 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 24th November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Sonny Rollins Plus 4 Jazz | OJC | 1LP Released 10th February 2014 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonny Rollins Plus 4 £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: OJC SKU: OJC243 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ambrose Akinmusire Owl Song Jazz | Nonesuch | 1LP Released 15th December 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ambrose Akinmusire Owl Song £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597905977 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th December 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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