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The Marguet, Kühn, Monniot, Boisseau Quartet (MKMB) is the perfect example: an example of a European understanding (with three French musicians, one German, and a Hungarian label), of intergene-rational understanding with the "papa" Joachim Kühn and three partners young enough to be his sons, and an example of musical understanding based on the cohabitation of Afro-American jazz branded with freedom, like that of Ornette Coleman, and notated European music going from J.S. Bach through Messiaen, to the Viennese twelve-tone composers and Bartók. The pianist Joachim Kühn, born in 1944 in Eastern Germany, represents all these types of music, since he appreciates rock and pop as well as the music of Black Africa and the Maghreb. This paternal figure surrounded by his musical "sons" is very well known in France. The disc is called émotions Homogénes, the French translation of an Ornette Coleman composition, which the MKMB quartet regularly play at gigs. These "homogenous emotions" sum up perfectly the state of mind of the quartet, where the level of collective technique demanded is always at the service of the energy, the inspiration and the pleasure shared. The implication, the listening, the understanding and the passion that unite the four members of this group is not only exemplary; it is the very definition of the kind of jazz you'd like to champion. A sincere, flourishing, adventurous jazz, far from all manner or calculation, opportunism and pigeonholing. A jazz that is contemporary and European, free and audacious.

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What marks the first readings of Émotions Homogènes, is the readability, the sibylline precision with which this title is justified from the first notes, as well as the magnetism of a quartet - propelled by Christophe Marguet - whose evidence and connivance ring at each chord.

     —Franpi Barriaux, citizenjazz.com