Artist: Erik Truffaz

Erik Truffaz is a French-Swiss jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. 

Truffaz was inspired to study jazz when he heard  Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue at 16 years old, and joined Switzerland's Geneva Conservatoire for university studies. 

In 1996, Truffaz signed with the French EMI label.  Truffaz's second album on Blue Note, The Dawn, produced together with Patrick Muller, Marcello Giuliani and Mark Erbetta. Since then they have produced many Blue Note albums together such as Bending New Corners, which became a Silver Album in France. The 2007 release Arkhangelsk is a mixture of pop songs, French chanson, and jazz-groove. In 2007 he and Ed Harcourt appeared in a Take-Away Show video session shot by Vincent Moon. 

Further information about Erik Truffaz is found at Eriktruffaz.net.

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