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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIRUT: Back in 2004, the year the Erik Truffaz Quartet delivered its blistering performance at the Byblos International Festival, the audience was estimated to be a miniscule 400-500 souls. Evidently ...

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 ...

Two French jazz musicians and a Tunisian sufi singer who sings in Arabic, would be performing on the banks of river Sabarmati at a music concert organised by the Alliance Francaise (AF) here tomorrow.

"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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