With breathtaking technical skills, great sensitivity, imagination and a good amount of anarchy, Emile Parisien investigates, challenges and expands the jazz genre. The result is fresh, European music, rousing, virtuoso and full of emotion.
In more than ten years the Emile Parisien quartet has played various concerts all over the world. They got inspired by freethinkers like Wayne Shorter or Ornette Coleman, but their ingenuity and their way to try something new are not to compare with other ensembles. The quartet has its own way of telling musical stories and to show its exuberant creativity and friskiness.
The new album of the band, "Double Screening", combines all of their exceptional qualities.

Ivan Gélugne (double bass), Julien Loutelier (drums), Emile Parisien (soprano saxophon), Julien Touéry (piano)

Roberto Negro and Emile Parisien’s duet is a mischievous adaptation for piano and saxophone of Giorgy Ligeti’s first string quartet, ‘ Les métamorphoses nocturnes ’.

« Ligeti ? I love it !
I love it too ! »

This is how ‘Métanuits’ was born, this adaptation of György Ligeti’s ‘Métamorphoses Nocturnes’ by Emile Parisien and Roberto Negro which is both generous and deferent towards the Hungarian master. It is at the same time a shortening and a re-writing for saxophone and piano of Ligeti’s first and famous string quartet, written between 1953 and 1954.
Emile Parisien and Roberto Negro rewrite, adapt and rearrange Ligeti’s music, they re-imagine this original piece from inside, next to it, beyond it and between its lines all at once. They open the doors of improvisation while respecting the deep and playful themes. Rhythm pervades the writing, sometimes like a slow engine, and sometimes like a restless devil. The rhythmic intensity and the almost cathartic physical engagement dwell on the duet’s interpretation.
The two musicians first discussed this project in 2014, however Roberto and Emile matured until now this idea of making their own this highly intense and committing music, which has been so deeply influential in their artistic history. After they imagined this project for years, they decided to create on stage and to record this music that will be out in March 2023, the year of the Hungarian composer’s centenary.

Roberto Negro (piano), Emile Parisien (soprano saxophon)