Erik Truffaz

Erik Truffaz
Background information
Birth name	Erik Truffaz
Born	3 April 1960
Origin	France
Genres	Jazz fusion Acid jazz Nu-jazz Post bop
Occupation(s)	Musician, band leader, composer
Instrument(s)	Trumpet
Years active	1990s–present
Labels	Blue Note Records (current) EMI
Website	Official Website

Erik Truffaz (Chêne-Bougeries, 3 April 1960 in Switzerland) is a French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. He signed with the French EMI label in 1996. Truffaz gained international attention with his 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.

Discography

• Nina Valéria (1994)
• Out of a Dream (1997)
• The Dawn (1998)
• Bending New Corners (1999)
• The Mask (2000)
• Mantis (2001)
• ReVisité (2001)
• Magrouni (2002)
• Tales Of The Lighthouse (2002)
• The Walk of the Giant Turtle (2003)
• Saloua (2005)
• Face-à-face (2CD Live + DVD) (2006)
• Arkhangelsk (2007)
• Benares (2008)
• Mexico (2008)
• Paris (2008)
• In between (2010)
• El tiempo de la Revolución (2012)

External links

• Official site
• A documentary about the recording of Erik Truffaz's album Arkhangelsk featuring Nya, Christophe & Ed Harcourt.