Jazz Articles about Phil Parisot

About Phil Parisot

Album Review

Even at a time when jazz has broadened its horizons to encompass music from a wide variety of sources, it is not often that one happens upon a jazz album inspired by the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. However, that is the premise animating drummer Phil Parisot's sunlit Inventions, an astute post-bop session wherein Bach's muse may be present but whose point of view, exemplified by Parisot's stylish compositions, is decidedly contemporary. The truth is, if ...

Album Review

Phil Parisot: Creekside

by Paul Rauch
November 13, 2017

With his second recording as a leader, Seattle drummer/composer Phil Parisot follows up his debut record, Lingo (OA2, 2016), with Creekside (OA2, 2017), an interpretation of how nature manifests itself within urban environments. It's sound reflects the natural world perceived within the context of urban life, as a primal, inexhaustible source of enveloping sanctuary, seeing human participation as another link in the primordial march of timeless and innate universal emotive interaction. This visionary concept is explored and embellished upon by ...

Album Review

Phil Parisot: Lingo

by Paul Rauch
January 10, 2017

Seattle based drummer/ composer Phil Parisot has straddled several 20th century musical traditions in his career as a sideman, and member of the eclectic big band, Big Neighborhood. His understanding of funk, Afro-Cuban, rock and symphonic music has influenced his approach as a composer, and more so as a drummer on numerous projects in recent memory. His most recent work on the OA2 label, Lingo reflects that all embracing understanding, as a well conceived, expertly performed album that swings unabashedly, ...