Émile Parisien

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Emile Parisien (* 12. October 1982 in Cahors ) is a French jazz - saxophonist , bandleader and jazz composer .

Émile Parisien (2010)

Live and act

Emile Parisien attended from the age of eleven years, the Collège de jazz of Marciac . There he learned from Pierre Boussaguet, Guy Lafitte and Christian "Tonton" Salut. From 1996 he deepened his knowledge at the Conservatory of Toulouse . There he studied both classical and contemporary music and composition . Over the years he has also played with jazz people like Wynton Marsalis , Christian McBride , Johnny Griffin and Bobby Hutcherson at the annual Jazz Festival in Marciac .

Parisien moved to Paris in 2000 and founded his own quartet with Julien Touery (piano), Ivan Gélugne (double bass) and Sylvain Darrifourcq (drums). With compositions that are somewhat inspired by classics like Hector Berlioz , Igor Stravinsky , Arnold Schönberg , Richard Wagner or by jazz greats like John Coltrane or Wayne Shorter , the result is an expressionistic style in which improvisation dominates. Energetically swinging bebop , friendly tamed free jazz, melodic allusions to French and North African musical heritage as well as Stravinsky and Co can be found in the compositions and concert runs. With his own combo in a quartet or quintet line-up, he often played on tours or festivals all over Europe, sometimes with excellent reviews.

Parisien worked in France and other countries with Michel Portal , Jacky Terrasson , Yaron Herman , Paco Séry , Rémi Vignolo , Vincent Peirani and Manu Codjia, among others . As a sideman he is a member of Georgi Kornazov's "Horizons Quintet", which brought out the album Viara in 2008 . He is also part of Vincent Peirani's quintet Living Being , which was expanded for the 2013 SWR Jazz Meeting . In 2017, he presented the album Saison 3 in the Trio DaDaDa with Roberto Negro and Michele Rabbia .

Prizes and awards

Parisien was the winner of Les Victoires du Jazz 2009 in the category Révélation Instrumentale Française de l'Année (Prix Frank Ténot) . He received a prize in the program Jazz migration of AFIJMA (Association des Festivals innovants de Jazz et Contemporary Music), 2009 and the price Jazz Primeur 2009 , awarded by "Culture France" on behalf of the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture in terms of international cultural exchanges. In 2012 he was awarded the Prix ​​Django Reinhardt as the best French jazz musician; two years later he was celebrated by the Victoires du Jazz . He also received the Victoires du Jazz award for “Album of the Year” (2016) in France for the album Sfumato . For the albums Belle Époque and Sfumato , Parisien received an Echo Jazz in 2015 and 2017 .

Discographic notes

  • Émile Parisien Quintet: Éphémère (Famimra (self-produced) 2000)
  • Émile Parisien Quartet: Au revoir porc-épic (Laborie 2006)
  • Émile Parisien Quartet: Original pimpant (Laborie 2009)
  • Émile Parisien / Vincent Peirani: Belle Époque ( Act 2014)
  • Émile Parisien Quartet: Special Snack (Act 2014)
  • Émile Parisien Quintet & Joachim Kühn: Sfumato (Act 2016, with Joachim Kühn , Manu Codjia , Simon Tailleu , Mário Costa , and Michel Portal, Vincent Peirani), (Album of the Year in France)
  • Andreas Schaerer / Émile Parisien / Michael Wollny / Vincent Peirani: Out of Land (Act 2017)
  • Double Screening (Act 2019, with Julien Touéry, Ivan Gélugne, Julien Loutelier ; German Record Critics' Award )

Web links

Commons : Émile Parisien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (NDR) ( Memento from August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www4.fnac.com/Emile-Parisien/ia619538
  3. ↑ http://www.jazzclub-singen.de/archiv2010.html
  4. ↑ Vive la Jazz - Jazz am Rhein 2010 ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Festival Jazz Contreband Geneva 2010
  6. ↑ Émile Parisien Quartet at the Jazz Festival Willisau 2010
  7. ↑ Jazzclub Singen May 31, 2013 ( Memento from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Bert Noglik Vincent Peirani, Émile Parisien: SWR NEWJazz Meeting 2013 (review of the resulting CD Living Being Extended ) SWR2 , June 3, 2016
  9. ↑ Institut français Düsseldorf: November 19, 2010 - Institut francais presents: Emile Parisien Quartet ( Memento of September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ "Wonderfully merging timbres" Vincent Peirani & Emile Parisien Duo Art: Belle Époque , Deutschlandradio Kultur from April 3, 2014, accessed January 15, 2015
  11. ↑ New album Sfumato: How Emile Parisien fascinates the jazz world (DLF)
  12. ↑ Annual DSK Prize for Émile Parisien
personal data
SURNAME Parisien, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Cahors