Artist: Erik Truffaz
Genre(s):
Jazz
Acid Jazz
Discography:
Arkhangelsk
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Saloua
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Walk of the Giant Turtle
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Revisite
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Mantis
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Bending New Corners
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Mask
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Out of a Dream
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Erik Truffaz received an early intromission into the reality of a professional musician, thanks to his saxophone-playing pappa. When he was decade years old, the French trumpeter swan began playing in his father's dance band. As he grew sr., Truffaz performed with other bands in the region until he was 16 and heard Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. The majuscule jazz trumpeter's music elysian him to larn more, and he mark off for Switzerland's Geneva Conservatoire, where he became a educatee.
Truffaz's repertoire expanded to works by Mozart and Verdi, and he performed as voice of Orchestre de Suisse Romande. He also played in wrap up bands earlier establishing a group called Orange. The band concentrated on Truffaz's compositions. Among its members was Marc Erbetta, a drummer wHO continued to play with Truffaz as the trumpeter evolved.
Truffaz's jazz fusion artistry light-emitting diode France's Jury du Concours National de la Defense to bestow upon him the 1991 Prix Special, that country's desired jazz awarding. Within tierce years, he became a drawing card with the waiver of Nina Valeria. In 1991, he made the start of his three appearances on the stage of the Montreux Jazz Festival. For 2 years beginning in 1994, he toured Europe, Russia, and Brazil, thanks to funds bestowed by the ProHelvetia Foundation. In 2000, Truffaz signed with Blue Note records and released The Mask, a straight in front idle words session with Miles Davis similarities. By his second Revisite and third Mantis discs, however, Truffaz began to stretch the boundries of contemporary idle words by incorporating drum'n'bass and hip-hop rhythms, establishing himself as a film editing edge creative person in his own right. In 2003, both Walk of the Giant Turtle and Bending New Corners were issued on Blue Note. Saloua from 2005 expanded his involvement in rap by adding some blame.
