In 2001 Truffaz forms the Ladyland quartet with Michel Bénita, Manu Codjia, Philippe Garcia and the singer Mounir Troudi. The formula will be repeated on the next album bending new corners while The walk of the giant has a rockier edge and putting emphasis on drums and bass.īetween 19, Truffaz releases twelve albums for Blue Note, four of them with the Truffaz Quartet (Marcello Giuliani, Patrick Muller, and Marc Erbetta): The dawn, Bending new corner kicks, The walk of the giant turtle, Arckhangelsk, with guests, poet rapper Nya, the singers Ed Harcourt and Christophe. However the music of Erik Truffaz presents a mixture of drum and bass with the smooth (often) treated sound of Truffaz trumpet and the English-speaking rap of the singer Nya invited on the album. His trumpet playing often evokes that of Miles Davis. In 1994 Truffaz releases his first record under his name: Nina Valeria, but it?s his third record The Dawn who reveals Erik Truffaz to the general public.

The group wins in 1993 the Special Price of the French Festival Jazz à la La Defense. In 1990 Erik Truffaz forms a group with Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani and Maurice Magnoni. Wesseltoft's dark blend of Rhodes, acoustic bass, drum samples, and rap vocal snippets on 'Sweet Mercy' represents a new kind of musical mosaic, an idea with a very promising future.Erik Truffaz is a Swiss-born French jazz trumpeter. There's a mellow, even minimalistic vibe to much of the music, with the possible exception of Alex Gopher's party-worthy 'Bending New Corners.' Truffaz's sparse trumpet work over these electronic loops and grooves does, of course, recall Miles Davis, but what's interesting about this record, and others like it, is that it signifies a new direction in music - not a throwback to fusion, not a concession to commercial pressures, but a fecund meeting of some very different yet complementary musical minds. Like Truffaz himself, these musical seekers hail from Europe - Pierre Audétat, Alex Gopher, Pierre Henry, Goo, and Bugge Wesseltoft, as well as Mobile in Motion (Christophe Calpini and Fred Hashadourian), which splits 'The Dawn' into two parts that respectively open and close the album. In a bid to crosspollinate jazz with new sounds being explored in ambient and electronica, Truffaz enlists the talents of six guest artists to reinterpret his work through their own experimental points of view. The seven tracks on Revisité are 'remixes' of tunes that Erik Truffaz, the adventurous French trumpeter, previously explored with his jazz quartet.

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