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 ...

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 musician. Not content with leading two ...

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. Erik Truffaz will be onstage in ...

Swiss-born French trumpeter Erik Truffaz is the kind of artist who can drive managers and record companies mad. Why? He never makes the same kind of record twice. Then his next release departed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank Browning reports on Erik Truffaz. The jazz trumpeter mixes his classical training with his experience playing in his father's wedding band with hip hop and the world music and musicians he ...

The three CDs of the French trumpeter’s new release are sub-titled Paris, Benares and Mexico. Paris features the beat-boxer, vocalist and producer Sly Johnson – a few bland moments easily ...

French jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz whose music bears elements of hip-hop, rock and roll and dance music calls his compositions collages. Having collaborated with the likes of Patrick Muller ...

Murcof Erik Truffaz and Talvin Singh live at the 2006 Montreux Jazz festival This is the track RIOS from the album REMEMBRANZA played as encore ...

Contemporary Jazz / Rock. Erik Truffaz was born and raised in France close to the Swiss border near Geneva. Not surprisingly he launched his career in French-Speaking Switzerland in the bands of ...

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 ...