To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Emile Parisien's jazz quartet presents "Let Them Cook"Accidents only last a few seconds; sometimes a few minutes. This one has lasted 20 years. Two decades since Emile Parisien's quartet extended that improvised jam session in a club, after which the four musicians looked at each other, as if stunned by that instant collective love at first sight, aware of having given birth to... something. The soil was viscerally jazz, not the seeds planted.Classical or contemporary music, rock, electronic, song, everything passed through the ears of these four. Mingus or Schoenberg, same fight! That hasn't changed: tearing off labels, demolishing partitions, shaking up the codes, their roadmap is as if carved in stone. Like this obsession with storytelling. "The quartet's central axis since forever is to tell stories," insists the saxophonist. A breath of freshness blows over this Let Them Cook. A few seconds are enough to recognize the house style, but a style firmly rooted in 2024, not 2004. A turning point validated after a concert in Sweden, at the end of the tour for their 2018 album, Double Screening. That evening, the four musicians agreed to try to deviate from all-acoustic and integrate electronics. Emile Parisien's quartet has succeeded in its bet because these electronic punctuations never pollute its DNA, but on the contrary stimulate it.
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