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Erik Truffaz: Face-a-Face
by John Kelman
French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, one of the hardest working artists in jazz, seems to be endlessly on tour with his two groups. The only place his stylistically hybridized music has yet to make significant inroads is the US--which is a shame because Truffaz is a fine player from the electric Miles camp and a largely innovative ...
Saloua
By Erik Truffaz
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Saloua; Big Wheel; Whispering; Yabous; Gedech; Dubophone; Ines; Tantrik; Ghost
Drummer; Le Soleil d'Eline; Spirale; Et la Vie Continue.
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Chris M. Slawecki
I am pleased and saddened to report that this is one of the best pieces of music I have heard in 2005. It is a pleasure to have discovered the fifth album in the US for Blue Note, and ninth album overall, by this French composer, bandleader, and trumpet player. Yet it is also sad, because ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Jim Santella
Erik Truffaz ensures that jazz will continue to grow. On Saloua, he incorporates a world view of the genre, picking up where Miles Davis left off. Tradition remains a part of his music; however, it's been disguised by modern concepts that affect all forms of popular music. Truffaz's horn swirls with the kind of moody melodicism ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Eric J. Iannelli
Jazz is by nature an act of continual fusion, the conflation of disparate styles, instrumentation and techniques into one dynamic whole. Nevertheless, one small subgenre--specifically the blending of rock and jazz--is most often applied with the “fusion" label; and though Miles Davis' name isn't exactly synonymous with the term, on the strength of his pioneering efforts ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Mark F. Turner
A disciple of Miles Davis' fusion/electric years, trumpeter Erik Truffaz has provided his own sounds of fusion for many years and quite impressively by cultivating many influences into this “not so new wave of jazz that younger artists are now discovering. His new release, Saloua, finds him back with a signature style that uses everything from ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Paul Olson
French trumpeter Erik Truffaz's sonic world is a benevolent, positive one, fusing elements of Arabic and African musics, hip-hop, groove, dub, and pop into one electronically seasoned stew. Saloua, his first CD since 2003's The Walk of the Giant Turtle, continues its eclectic synthesis of the above musical ingredients, but with new musicians. Here Truffaz's group ...
The Walk Of The Giant Turtle
By Erik Truffaz
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Scody Part 1; Scody Part 2; King B; Flamingos; Turiddu; Next Door; Belle de Nuit; Wilfried; Seven
Skies; The Walk of the Giant Turtle.
Erik Truffaz in Tampere: Fusion for the 21st Century
by Matthew Wuethrich
Old Customs Hall Tampere, Finland October 31, 2003 The Erik Truffaz 4tet wears two faces. One screams, “Fusion Lives!" and the other whispers in hushed tones. But after 90 minutes it becomes clear which mask they prefer-the full-out, ear-splitting fusion. Most of their eight-song set consists of open-ended jams that show both ...
Erik Truffaz: The Walk of the Giant Turtle
by Mark F. Turner
French trumpeter Erik Truffaz proves again to be a jazz non-conformist on his fourth US Blue Note release, where he exploits the musical elements of hard rock, funk, psychedelia, dance, and jazz in grand fashion. On last year's notable Mantis, which featured nice guitar work, Arab vocals, and unusual instruments, he showed no fear in blurring ...
