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Emile Parisien « Sfumato » Quintet (f/p) at Opus Jazz Club
Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on November 22, 2016
Where
Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894
When
Sat, December 17, 2016
21:00
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Musicians
Emile Parisien
saxophone, sopranoJulien Touery
pianoManu Codjia
guitar, electricMário Costa
drumsAbout
French saxophonist Emile Parisien is a true jazz visionary. He may have one foot in that ancient soil, but his gaze is firmly fixed on the future. Le Monde has called him “the best new thing that has happened in European jazz for a long time,” while the Hamburg radio station NDR made the point of telling its listeners to give Parisien their “undivided attention.”
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....