Emile Parisien Quartet: Chien Guepe – review

(Laborie Jazz)When French saxophonist Emile Parisien's band played the Partager festival at Kings Place in 2010, they jammed references from free-jazz and avant-funk to Tristan and Isolde into a 45-minute set with such virtuosity and wit that their comparative obscurity was hard to credit. This album catches that atmosphere. Parisien sets free-improv within a soundscape referencing American innovators from Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy and Cecil Taylor, European classical music and contemporary fu...

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