Emile Parisien
Louise
2022 - ACT Music + Vision GmbH + Co. KG: ACT 9943-2 (CD) / ACTLP 9943-1 (2 LPs)
https://www.actmusic.com/Kuenstler/Emile-Parisien/Louise/Louise-CD
https://www.actmusic.com/en/Kuenstler/Emile-Parisien/Louise/Louise-CD
https://emileparisien./album/louise

* Emile Parisien: soprano saxophone
* Theo Croker   : trumpet
* Roberto Negro : piano
* Manu Codjia   : guitar
* Joe Martin    : bass
* Nasheet Waits : drums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Parisien
https://www.theocroker.com/
https://www.robertonegro.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/manu-codjia-mn0000386993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Martin_(bassist)
https://nasheetwaits./

Recorded by Mathieu Pion at Studio Gil Evans de La Maison de la Culture,
Amiens, France, on June 2021.

Louise Bourgeois
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois_(plasticienne)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

Reviews
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By Matt Collar
https://www.allmusic.com/album/louise-mw0003622812

One of the foremost soprano saxophonists in Europe, Émile Parisien is a
supremely balanced performer whose music is both harmonically sophisticated and
kinetic, bringing together his classic influences with hard-driving jazz
improvisation. It's this vibrant combination that he showcases on 2022's
Louise, an album that marks his tenth year with the ACT label. While he has led
various incarnations of his quartet, quintet, and sextet in the past, Parisien
has put together a dynamic, globally cross-pollinated ensemble here, featuring
Italian-born/France-based pianist Roberto Negro, French guitarist Manu Codjia,
and a trio of Americans with trumpeter Theo Croker, bassist Joe Martin, and
drummer Nasheet Waits. Together, they play as a boldly cohesive unit with a
sound that straddles the line between the propulsively swinging post-bop of
Wynton and Branford Marsalis' mid-'80s work and the crunchy '70s fusion of John
McLaughlin. However, rather than fitting neatly into any one paradigm,
Parisien's music is organic, ever changing, and rife with subtle nods to
musical traditions far afield from jazz. The opening "Louise" is a brooding
dreamscape, merging Middle Eastern-sounding sax and trumpet drones with ambient
guitar flourishes and a far-off rumble of bass and piano. Also evocative,
"Madagascar" features a bluesy, whirling dervish melody that sounds like
Ornette Coleman playing with a Jewish klezmer ensemble. Yet more wild cacophony
follows, as on the Thelonious Monk-esque burner "Jojo" and the wryly titled
"Jungle Jig," whose wild group improv builds to a fever pitch like a high
school concert band gone rogue after the director has left the room. From the
frenetic to the mournful to the devastatingly beautiful, Parisien continually
pulls all of this controlled chaos into something akin to poetry.

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By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/emile-parisien-louise-album-review

By Jon Turney
https://londonjazznews.com/2022/01/27/emile-parisien-louise/

By Jim Hynes
https://www.makingascene.org/emile-parisien-sextet-louise/

By Michael Toland
https://bigtakeover.com/recordings/EmileParisienLouiseACTMusic

Milan Tesař (cz)
https://hudba.proglas.cz/noklasik/jazz/emile-parisien-vydava-album-louise/

Josef Engels (de)
https://www.rondomagazin.de/kritiken.php?kritiken_id=11775

Da Neri Pollastri (it)
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/louise-enja-records

Par Gilles Gaujarengues (fr)
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Emile-Parisien-sextet.html

Por «el intruso» (es)
https://elintruso.com/emile-parisien-reune-una-estelar-alineacion-en-louise/