The Erik Truffaz Quartet concert, on February 10 in the Auditorium of the Province of Malaga, opened the new edition of Jazz In Blue, traveling festival that will visit the major Spanish cities over three months.
Erik Truffaz, heir of Miles Davis, was born in Switzerland in 1960. At 6, he was already reading music scores, at 7 he played the trumpet, and at 14, he added a muted wah-wah to his trumpet, beginning his first flirtations with electronic music.
With over 15 albums released, his style, called by some “Jazz mestizo” fuses funk, jazz, electronica, groove, pop, soul… an avant-garde rock musician, he was the first to play the Drum and bass with battery (previously only played with computer)
A mold breaker, in his latest work he includes current rhythms like hip hop and electronica. That’s what was shown by Mark Erbetta, battery, who surprised us with a single beat-box breaker, prompting much laughter.
Benoît Corboz’s keyboards: fender rhodes, hammond, piano … and his extraordinary performance, earned him more than one standing ovation. This prodigious keyboardist was playing with Truffaz already in ’86.
The quartet, completed by Marcello Giuliani on bass, has over 20 years of composing with elegance and sobriety, each contributing their ideas, materializing them afterwards into timeless works, which are increasingly attracting a younger audience.
Many of the songs are inspired by cities in countries as diverse as Russia, Mexico, India and Colombia. And the music of this “cosmic trumpeter” invites you to travel ….
The Jazz in Blue festival continues in the Auditorium of the Province with a concert by Joe Lovano Europa Quartet next March 2, Robert Glasper on April 20 and The Bad Plus on May 17. More info at www.dpm-cultura.org.
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