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Emile Parisien: Floating
by Neil Duggan
French soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien is a leading light in French and European jazz. Equally at home in contemporary chamber jazz, free improvisation and more traditional settings, he has developed a distinctive musical language shaped by a wide range of collaborators and influences. Floating is the first release from a quartet that emerged from the closing concert of Parisien's two-year residency at the Cité Internationale in Paris. Intended as a one-off performance, the rapport between the musicians was ...
Continue ReadingIsabelle Olivier / Rez Abassi: OASIS
by Jerome Wilson
The combination of acoustic guitar and harp is seldom heard in jazz and improvisational circles but it is explored here in exciting fashion by harpist Isabelle Olivier and guitarist Rez Abbasi. Accompanied by Prabhu Edouard on tabla and David Paycha on drums, they bring their instruments' sounds together in a variety of musical textures ranging from intense to contemplative. The guitar and harp shimmer delicately together on “Cherry Blossom" and swoop and dive with swagger on their version ...
Continue ReadingRez Abbasi: OASIS
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Rez Abbasi and harpist Isabelle Olivier's OASIS (an acronym for Olivier Abbasi Sound In Sound) is embodiment of fusion. Not the variety you may recognize as jazz-rock fusion, more like fusion cooking, for example Korean-Mexican or sushi-pizza. Okay, not sushi-pizza, but you get the idea. Olivier and Abbasi are pulling together jazz, Indian-Pakistani, and European classical music without compromising the character of each. Abbasi, a Pakistani-American is better known than his French partner (who lives part time ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Instinct 4
From: OtsukaresamaBy Prabhu Edouard
Timeline
From: OASISBy Prabhu Edouard
