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Phil Parisot: Inventions

Read "Inventions" reviewed by Jack Bowers


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 ...

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Phil Parisot: Creekside

Read "Creekside" reviewed by Paul Rauch


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 ...

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Phil Parisot: Lingo

Read "Lingo" reviewed by Paul Rauch


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, ...

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"An inspired and quirkily orchestral timekeeper who comes up with a startling number of fresh ideas per tune." —ALL ABOUT JAZZ ​ ​ "The playing of drummer Phil Parisot is always stimulating and strongly interactive." —ALL MUSIC GUIDE ​ ​ "On drums Phil Parisot is engaged and engaging throughout; he takes up the challenges of the often complex counts with apparent ease." —EARSHOT

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Inventions

OA2 Records
2021

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Lingo

OA2 Records
2017

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Creekside

OA2 Records
2017

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Lingo

OA2 Records
2016

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From the Ancestors

From: Inventions
By Phil Parisot

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