Erik Truffaz 4tet. In Between Tour featuring Anna Aaron as Special Guest & Support
LEGENDARY TRUMPETER ERIK TRUFFAZ IS COMING TO PRAGUE WITH HIS CLASSIC QUARTET TO INTRODUCE A NEW ALBUM IN BETWEEN AND A SPECIAL GUEST AND SUPPORT ANNA AARON.
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Erik Truffaz is a highly versatile musician and composer who is equally at ease in traditional and modern jazz and one of the main ambassadors of the NuJazz movement.
Born in 1960, Truffaz was inspired to play music by his saxophonist father who led a dance band. He took up the trumpet as a youngster and joined his father on the bandstand. As his technique grew, Truffaz linked up with other bands before being introduced to Miles Davis’ classic Kind of Blue album. This led him to study music at the Geneva Conservatoire in Switzerland where he learned to perform classical works by the likes of Mozart and Verdi. In addition to playing in the Orchestre de Suisse Romande, Truffaz played in cover bands while also writing his own jazz-infused music. In 1990 he formed a jazz band called Orange and the following year won France’s prestigious jazz award, the Prix Special. As a leader of his self-named group, Truffaz recorded his first album Nina Valeria and appeared on stages throughout Europe, including the Montreux Jazz Festival.
The trumpeter has been likened to Miles Davis (from his In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew days), though Rolling Stone critic David Fricke writes, “Truffaz plays less like Miles than a jazz-rock [Brian] Eno, making rapturous atmospheres from a minimum of notes.” In Fricke’s review of Revisité, he concluded that the remixes “affirm the depth and durability of Truffaz’s fusion: a jazz with brawn, soul and plenty of wide open space.”
