Olive Branch
Context
Third track of Floating, the album by Emile Parisien (soprano saxophone) with Yaron Herman on piano, Prabhu Edouard on tabla and Linda May Han Oh on double bass. The quartet was born from a single concert at the Cité internationale in Paris, at the end of the saxophonist's two-year residency. Recorded in two days, the album came out on September 25, 2026: Parisien describes it as a "soft reset," turned toward gentleness and chamber dialogue.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to French jazz, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.