Showing posts with label Marcello Giuliani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcello Giuliani. Show all posts

March 14, 2017

Erik Truffaz Quartet live at BMW Welt Jazz Award 2012


Erik Truffaz, trumpet
Benoit Corboz, piano
Marcello Giuliani, bass
Marc Erbetta, drums
recorded live at BMW Welt, München, January 22, 2012

1. Arroyo
2. The walk of the giant turtle
3. Tic Toc
Wie so viele Aktivposten der Pariser Jazz-, Rock- und Popszene stammt der Trompeter Erik Truffaz ursprünglich nicht aus der französischen Hauptstadt. Der gesamte frankophone Kosmos von Afrika bis Asien, vom Maghreb bis zu einst eng verbundenen osteuropäischen Ländern trifft sich jedoch hier zum kreativen Austausch.

Den gebürtigen Schweizer Erik Truffaz kann man inzwischen mit einigem Recht den Miles Davis der Pariser Szene nennen. Nicht nur wegen seines ätherischen Trompetensounds, sondern auch, weil er sich wie die amerikanische Legende immer wieder neu orientiert und ein überzeugter Vertreter des Kollektivgedankens ist. Die Band steht bei ihm im Mittelpunkt,
ob er sich nun akustischen oder elektronischen Klängen, klassischem Jazz, Jazzrock oder NuJazz widmet. Mehr als die Summe der Teile ist auch sein seit 1997 bestehendes Quartett mit Marcello Giuliani am Bass, Marc Erbetta am Schlagzeug und Benoit Corboz am Klavier.

October 21, 2011

Erik Truffaz Quartet live at Moments, Bremen 2011


Erik Truffaz, Trumpet
Marcello Giuliani, Bass
Benoit Corboz, Keyboard
Alberto Malo, Drums
Anna Aaron, Vocals
recorded live at Moments, Bremen, April 4, 2011

1. The Secret Of The Dead Sea (Benoit Corboz, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
2. Akiko (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Eric Truffaz)
3. Wilfried (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
4. Tic Toc (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
5. Mechanic Cosmetic (Benoit Corboz, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
6. Arroyo (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
7. In Between (Benoit Corboz, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
8. Bending New Corners (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
9. Fujin (Benoit Corboz, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
10. Miss Kaba (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
11. The Drain Act (Anna Aaron)
12. Let Me Go! (Benoit Corboz, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)
13. Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner (Patrick Muller, Marc Erbetta, Marcello Giuliani, Erik Truffaz)

Swiss trumpet player Erik Truffaz has hooked up with his former musical accomplices to turn out a dark, melancholy album, In Between. His trumpet soars through the sound of rigged keyboards and accompanies the voice of singer Sophie Hunger.
After three years and three albums springing from some fruitful partnerships (Benares, Paris and Mexico), Erik Truffaz has gone back to his old quartet. Close friend Benoît Corboz has taken up the keyboards formerly played by Patrick Muller, and brought his rigged
Hammond organ and his Rhodes piano into the studio. Sophie Hunger, one of Erik’s Swiss compatriots, joined the musicians to record one of the compositions, Let me go! and a cover version of an obscure Bob Dylan number, Dirge.
The slow, sad track that opens the album sets the tone for the whole opus. The secret of the dead sea, with its vocal and drum blend, unites the chantings of the Hammond organ with those of Truffaz’s trumpet. The musician explains: "The album is pretty sombre and sad. But we didn’t set out to do it that way. Each of us comes to the studio with more or less finished compositions and then we root out a sound together.  It’s only afterwards that we discover the result.” The musician has dropped the electronic effects of yore and placed his new silver-incrusted instrument centre stage, producing an ampler sound that at times approaches the flute.
It is the keyboards that provide the effects – dreamlike sounds, like on Mechanic Cosmetic, a track created from one of the quartet’s very modal improvisations. The more agitated Lost in Bogota, which the Rhodes piano turns almost funky, is a long way from the D&B rhythm of BC One, an ethereal tune created and dissected by Benoît Corboz. In Between propagates a hushed (dis)quiet, with the trumpet playing softly and the drums taking back stage before the Rhodes piano comes whirling in.
In Between is in constant oscillation – flitting from past to present, joy to sadness, life to death.