Emile Parisien - Let Them Cook (CD)

'Let Them Cook' is like a breath of fresh air, and with a band sound now takably of 2024 rather than 2004.When accidents happen, they are normally over in seconds, sometimes minutes; this one has been going on for 20 years. It is two decades since the members of Emile Parisien's quartet played a jam session together. At the end, they looked at each other in disbelief. They had not just been hit by a collective musical thunderbolt, they also knew they had just brought...well...something...into being. The common ground between them was jazz, but each had all kinds of seeds to sow in it, from classical music and contemporary sounds to rock, electronica and chanson. These four rip up labels, break down barriers, upset codes, and yet they know exactly where they are headed. There is a shared obsession with narrative. 'The central axis of the quartet has always been storytelling,' the saxophonist emphasises.'Let Them Cook' is like a breath of fresh air, and with a band sound now firmly and u