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Live Review

Erik Truffaz plays Rollin’ & Clap! at Hong Kong City Hall

Read "Erik Truffaz plays Rollin’ & Clap! at Hong Kong City Hall" reviewed by Rob Garratt

by Rob Garratt

Erik Truffaz--Rollin' & Clap! French May Arts Fest Hong Kong City Hall Hong Kong SAR June 7, 2025 It's easy to feel suspicious of projects too keen to tout their sales-friendly theme. Whether it's another Bird tribute or an album of Beatles songs (yup, looking at you, Brad Mehldau), the USP frequently screams so loudly it's hard not to imagine the marketer's glee (or coercion). Even a masterpiece like Herbie ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Miles Davis, Erik Truffaz, John McLaughlin and more

Read "Miles Davis, Erik Truffaz, John McLaughlin and more" reviewed by Len Davis

by Len Davis

Miles Davis from the 1987 Live Under The Sky sessions, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, saxophonist Gary Thomas and John McLaughlin. Playlist Miles Davis “The Senate-Me and U" from Live Under The Sky 1987 (Equinox Jazz) 00:00 Erik Truffaz “Tantrik" from Saloua (Capitol) 09:04 Gary Thomas “Out of Harms Way" from By Any Means Neccessary (Polydor) 18:22 John McLaughlin “Mother Tongues" from The Heart of Things-Live In Paris (Verve) 27:35 Third Rail “That Stern Look" from Ignition Live Across ...

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Live Review

Jazz in Church Festival 2015

Read "Jazz in Church Festival 2015" reviewed by Adriana Carcu

by Adriana Carcu

Jazz in Church Festival Bucharest, Romania Lutheran Church April 16-19, 2015 The Jazz in Church Festival reaffirmed its call of unconventionality by bringing together artists of most diversified styles and orientations. A subtly assorted lineup consolidated the nascent tradition of open dialog and transgender interplay set forth three years ago. For four days in April the cupola of the Lutheran Church in Bucharest echoed with the unobstructed creativity of the performers and reverberated with ...

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Album Review

Erik Truffaz Quartet: El Tiempo De La Revolución

Read "El Tiempo De La Revolución" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Across a twenty-year recording career, Swiss-born trumpeter Erik Truffaz has explored jazz, rock, electronica, dance and ambient musics. El Tiempo De La Revolución, his tenth album for Blue Note France, mixes jazz, '80s soul and a touch of Nordic cool to create some intriguing soundscapes and moods.El Tiempo De La Revolución is credited to the Erik Truffaz Quartet, which Truffaz formed in 1997. Alongside original members Marcello Giuliani on bass and Marc Erbetta on drums, Truffaz is joined ...

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Album Review

Ilhan Ersahin: Instanbul Sessions

Read "Instanbul Sessions" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Ci sono il profumo del Bosforo e l'aria elettrica di New York, la musica della tradizione ottomana e l'underground della grande mela, le sonorità del medio oriente e i ritmi del drum'n'bass. Instanbul Session è questo e molto altro ancora perche Ilhan Ersahin ed Eric Truffaz trovano un'alchimia che funziona alla grande fondendo il background perlomeno originale di Ersahin con le magie elettroniche di Truffaz. Nato a Stoccolma da genitori svedesi e turchi, cresciuto per lungo tempo in Turchia, trasferitosi ...

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Album Review

Erik Truffaz: Rendez-Vous

Read "Rendez-Vous" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

At first sight, everything is wrong about this 3CD set, recorded by the fusion and ambient trumpeter Erik Truffaz in Paris, Benares and Mexico--via a heap of international file-sharing--with help from the locals. “Wrong" like that table in the New York nightclub in 1971's The French Connection. Except that the bagmen portrayed in the movie were somehow, indefinably but unmistakably, bad news. There's nothing indefinably troubling about Rendez-Vous, however; it's there clear as a pikestaff and twice as nasty. It ...

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Album Review

Erik Truffaz: Arkhangelsk

Read "Arkhangelsk" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

While Out of a Dream (Blue Note, 1997), introduced Erik Truffaz's now decade-old group featuring keyboardist Patrick Muller, bassist Marcello Giuliani and drummer Marc Erbetta, it was a decidedly straight-ahead post-bop affair. Since then, with that quartet and his guitar-centric Ladyland group, the Swiss-born trumpeter has moved increasingly further away from the mainstream, exploring the textures and beats of Nu Jazz, the influence of Middle Eastern, African music, and even a hint of fusion and head-banging rock.

Truffaz has used ...

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