Let Them Cook

Description

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. For two decades, Emile Parisien's quartet has extended that improvised jam session in a club, after which the four musicians looked at each other, as if mesmerized by this instant collective love at first sight, aware of having given birth to... something. The soil was viscerally jazz, but the seeds planted were not. Classical or contemporary music, rock, electronic, chanson – everything went through the ears of these four. Mingus or Schoenberg, it was all the same fight! That hasn't changed: tearing off labels, breaking down barriers, challenging codes, their roadmap is etched in stone. Like this obsession with narration. "The central axis of the quartet has always been to tell stories," insists the saxophonist. A breath of fresh air blows through this "Let Them Cook." A few seconds are enough to recognize the band's signature, but a signature well-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 night, the four musicians agreed to try to deviate from the all-acoustic approach and incorporate electronics. Emile Parisien's quartet succeeded in its gamble because these electronic punctuations never pollute its DNA, but rather stimulate it.