My way is really between pop and jazz. What interests me in jazz is just improvisation. Most musicians would be content with one successful band, but Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz is not the typical ...

In the next step of his evolution as a pioneering jazz figure, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz continues his exploration of modern dance rhythms informed by drum ‘n’ bass and hip hop as well as gripping ...

New drummer Arthur Hnatek helps inspire a gripping rhythmic interchange between the players Erik Truffaz, the cadaverous but unmistakably warm-blooded Swiss-French trumpeter, is in London this week ...

Swiss-born French trumpeter Erik Truffaz is the kind of artist who can drive managers and record companies mad. Then his next release departed from that, and subsequent recordings also went to ...

Taking influences from different cultures and experimenting with various kinds of sound has always been Erik Truffaz's forte. The renowned trumpeter from Switzerland. enthralled Bangaloreans at Couter ...

The world, according to trumpeter Erik Truffaz, is a place of late-Fifties nostalgia where beatnik chicks lounge around, while the sound of “experimental” jazz wafts through the air, thick with the ...

The music is out there,” says French musician Erik Truffaz. “It comes naturally without effort. That is the wonder of life in which we can sometimes recreate magic from what is around us,” says the ...

A whirlwind of progressive electronic rock, he is back with a new album titled Saloua, bringing together the many elements of his previous work. Joined by Mounir Troudi and Nya on vocals, the Ladyland ...

French trumpeter Erik Truffaz was one of the pioneers of the so-called “nu-jazz” movement in the mid 1990s. For a while it looked like he was going to run Esbjörn Svensson and Nils Petter Molvær close ...

French jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz whose music bears elements of hip-hop, rock and roll and dance music calls his compositions collages. Having collaborated with the likes of Patrick Muller, Marcello ...

"I melted, like a candle," a young woman told her friend as the soft purr of Erik Truffaz's trumpet faded. She wasn't the only one. The pop-oriented Swiss-French musician is generally more famous for ...

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