Saturday, August 14th, 2010 1:38 AM
Samuel Blaser Quartet
Samuel Blaser (trombone) Marc Ducret (guitar) Bänz Oester (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums)
Samuel Blaser Quartet founded in 2006 in New York is Blaser's most enduring ensemble. It features French guitarist Marc Ducret, Swiss bassist Bänz Oester and American drummer Gerald Cleaver. Since its creation, the band has regularly toured and played in more than eighty concerts and have released three albums together: 7th Heaven (BTL), Pieces of Old Sky (Clean Feed) and Boundless (Hat Hut) all highly acclaimed by the press, such as the New York Times, Downbeat, Jazz Times and AllAboutJazz.com.
Download press kit here
albums:
Boundless (Hat Hut Records, 2011)
Pieces Of Old Sky (Clean Feed, 2009)
7th Heaven (Between The Lines 2008)
Samuel Blaser Quartet founded in 2006 in New York is Blaser's most enduring ensemble. It features French guitarist Marc Ducret, Swiss bassist Bänz Oester and American drummer Gerald Cleaver. Since its creation, the band has regularly toured and played in more than eighty concerts and have released three albums together: 7th Heaven (BTL), Pieces of Old Sky (Clean Feed) and Boundless (Hat Hut) all highly acclaimed by the press, such as the New York Times, Downbeat, Jazz Times and AllAboutJazz.com.
Download press kit here
albums:
Boundless (Hat Hut Records, 2011)
Pieces Of Old Sky (Clean Feed, 2009)
7th Heaven (Between The Lines 2008)
Saturday, August 14th, 2010 1:37 AM
Samuel Blaser Consort in Motion
Samuel Blaser (trombone), Russ Lossing (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass), Gerry Hemingway (drums) Paul Motian (drums on the album)
Young Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser (who lives between New York and Berlin) is one of the next generation of jazz artists. Blaser leads a quartet with in-demand bassist Thomas Morgan, phenomenal pianist Russ Lossing and legendary drummer, Paul Motian, confirming that he is an artist abounding with daring ideas and concepts. Taking the unusual step of blending Renaissance and Baroque period music with jazz improvisation, Blaser creates with Consort In Motion a new musical world, at once oddly familiar and yet also startlingly compelling. He fashions entertaining original arrangements that emphasize his versatile playing and deep commitment to the jazz aesthetic. Winner of the Benny Golson prize, Blaser has worked in various big bands, featuring the likes of Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath and Buddy DeFranco.
album:
Consort In Motion (Kind Of Blue Records, 2011)
Young Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser (who lives between New York and Berlin) is one of the next generation of jazz artists. Blaser leads a quartet with in-demand bassist Thomas Morgan, phenomenal pianist Russ Lossing and legendary drummer, Paul Motian, confirming that he is an artist abounding with daring ideas and concepts. Taking the unusual step of blending Renaissance and Baroque period music with jazz improvisation, Blaser creates with Consort In Motion a new musical world, at once oddly familiar and yet also startlingly compelling. He fashions entertaining original arrangements that emphasize his versatile playing and deep commitment to the jazz aesthetic. Winner of the Benny Golson prize, Blaser has worked in various big bands, featuring the likes of Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath and Buddy DeFranco.
album:
Consort In Motion (Kind Of Blue Records, 2011)
Friday, August 14th, 2009 1:22 AM
Pierre Favre / Samuel Blaser / Philipp Schaufelberger
Pierre Favre (drums), Samuel Blaser (trombone), Philipp Schaufelberger (guitar)
Pierre Favre, the great pioneer of the European jazz scene, the tone-colour-painter among the Jazz drummers, presents two duo-CDs with young musicans: with Samuel Blaser on trombone and Philipp Schaufelberger on guitar.
The three musicans have a refined sense for the right tone, for what fits together, for a clear design. «Vol à Voile» and «Albatros» create spaces of sound and worlds of rhythm for a series of intense dialogues, that venture into largely unknown grounds, sometimes far off from established routines of improvisation.
albums:
Vol à Voile (Intakt Records, 2010)
Alabatros (Intakt Records, 2010)
Pierre Favre, the great pioneer of the European jazz scene, the tone-colour-painter among the Jazz drummers, presents two duo-CDs with young musicans: with Samuel Blaser on trombone and Philipp Schaufelberger on guitar.
The three musicans have a refined sense for the right tone, for what fits together, for a clear design. «Vol à Voile» and «Albatros» create spaces of sound and worlds of rhythm for a series of intense dialogues, that venture into largely unknown grounds, sometimes far off from established routines of improvisation.
albums:
Vol à Voile (Intakt Records, 2010)
Alabatros (Intakt Records, 2010)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 11:54 AM
Samuel Blaser & Pierre Favre
Samuel Blaser (trombone), Pierre Favre (drums)
Samuel Blaser presents here another vibrant project with swiss drummer Pierre Favre that will probably stand out from the majority of projects available on the music market. The unusual combination of instruments, trombone and drums, and the marriage of their talents will allow yourself to discover a new ensemble that should provide some near and long term gratification. And as All About Jazz stated "...if a trombone ever flourished in a free jazz vein, it´s here!" This combination performs some improvised material mixed with some original compositions stretching the sound barriers from the extreme avant-garde to grooves that continue to build into endless melodies. This project is also a very special meeting between two generations, Blaser and Favre, both originally from little neighboring cities in the Canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland, Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds. They have been traveling around the world to perform their arts, telling stories and playing music. Today they will meet, share their experiences and exchange their knowledges to finally capture the listeners in their own lyric and melodic universe!album: Vol à Voile (Intakt Records, 2010)
Samuel Blaser presents here another vibrant project with swiss drummer Pierre Favre that will probably stand out from the majority of projects available on the music market. The unusual combination of instruments, trombone and drums, and the marriage of their talents will allow yourself to discover a new ensemble that should provide some near and long term gratification. And as All About Jazz stated "...if a trombone ever flourished in a free jazz vein, it´s here!" This combination performs some improvised material mixed with some original compositions stretching the sound barriers from the extreme avant-garde to grooves that continue to build into endless melodies. This project is also a very special meeting between two generations, Blaser and Favre, both originally from little neighboring cities in the Canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland, Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds. They have been traveling around the world to perform their arts, telling stories and playing music. Today they will meet, share their experiences and exchange their knowledges to finally capture the listeners in their own lyric and melodic universe!album: Vol à Voile (Intakt Records, 2010)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 10:27 AM
Solo Trombone
Samuel Blaser (trombone)
Listen to a solo trombone concert? It is certainly not an idea that comes easily to mind even for the most experienced musicians. In any case, the listeners will be surprised: the trombone is an instrument, which has more possibilities than what we could imagine! The desire to play a solo program has always been present in my mind since my first trombone lesson and the discovery of Albert Mangelsdorff. In fact, the German trombone player was probably the first and the only one who had the boldness to explore as far as possible his instrument and play on stage by himself. Mangelsdorff has achieved a great popularity due to his unique technique of using multiphonics. Multiphonics is a technique of producing more than one tone through the instrument itself. I discovered at an early age that I was also able to produce those sounds and I rapidly include them in my improvisation's vocabulary. Nevertheless, it is since I moved to New York, by meeting different persons, that I really begun to explore all the possibilities I could play on my instrument. With this new technique and some new compositions, I was ready to play my solo trombone program and prove that the trombone is sufficient unto itself. Be on stage during one hour, alone from the beginning through the end, without even a rhythm section: An experience.
album:
Solo Bone (Slam Productions, 2008)
Listen to a solo trombone concert? It is certainly not an idea that comes easily to mind even for the most experienced musicians. In any case, the listeners will be surprised: the trombone is an instrument, which has more possibilities than what we could imagine! The desire to play a solo program has always been present in my mind since my first trombone lesson and the discovery of Albert Mangelsdorff. In fact, the German trombone player was probably the first and the only one who had the boldness to explore as far as possible his instrument and play on stage by himself. Mangelsdorff has achieved a great popularity due to his unique technique of using multiphonics. Multiphonics is a technique of producing more than one tone through the instrument itself. I discovered at an early age that I was also able to produce those sounds and I rapidly include them in my improvisation's vocabulary. Nevertheless, it is since I moved to New York, by meeting different persons, that I really begun to explore all the possibilities I could play on my instrument. With this new technique and some new compositions, I was ready to play my solo trombone program and prove that the trombone is sufficient unto itself. Be on stage during one hour, alone from the beginning through the end, without even a rhythm section: An experience.
album:
Solo Bone (Slam Productions, 2008)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 8:39 AM
La Fanfare du Porc
Lucien Dubuis (bass clarinet)
Samuel Blaser (trombone)
Luigi Galati (drums)
Lucien Dubuis souffle, renifle, pétarade, glousse, mordille et hurle, puis interprète rieur une jolie ballade et met tous les auditeurs au diapason de la stupéfaction. Il est de ces musiciens pour qui chaque son accouché est une nécessité, un cri universel, l'essence de l'animalité. Luigi Galati, c'est 108kg de groove, tout le "speck" d'une Italie gourmande qui régale avec une sécurité décontenancée les musiques et les mélomanes friands. Mais plus gros encore que l'estomac, chez Luigi, il y a le coeur! Et là, on ne trouve aucun égal à la générosité de cet artiste extraordinaire. Samuel Blaser a un C.V aux allures de tableau de chasse, que le tromboniste délivre dans les capitales internationales. Doués de talents rares, il sont les parfaits nouveaux trois petits cochons. La fanfare du por© ne craint ainsi aucune grippe, mieux encore, ce trio hors norme prescrit un vaccin contemporain contre les petits blues du quotidien. Consultation vétérinaire sanglante et atonale obligatoire!
album: Just Observing... (to be released)
Samuel Blaser (trombone)
Luigi Galati (drums)
Lucien Dubuis souffle, renifle, pétarade, glousse, mordille et hurle, puis interprète rieur une jolie ballade et met tous les auditeurs au diapason de la stupéfaction. Il est de ces musiciens pour qui chaque son accouché est une nécessité, un cri universel, l'essence de l'animalité. Luigi Galati, c'est 108kg de groove, tout le "speck" d'une Italie gourmande qui régale avec une sécurité décontenancée les musiques et les mélomanes friands. Mais plus gros encore que l'estomac, chez Luigi, il y a le coeur! Et là, on ne trouve aucun égal à la générosité de cet artiste extraordinaire. Samuel Blaser a un C.V aux allures de tableau de chasse, que le tromboniste délivre dans les capitales internationales. Doués de talents rares, il sont les parfaits nouveaux trois petits cochons. La fanfare du por© ne craint ainsi aucune grippe, mieux encore, ce trio hors norme prescrit un vaccin contemporain contre les petits blues du quotidien. Consultation vétérinaire sanglante et atonale obligatoire!
album: Just Observing... (to be released)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 7:28 AM
Braff Blaser Duo
Malcolm Braff (piano)_Samuel Blaser (trombone)
"... Braff's prepared piano and Blaser's extended trombone vocabularies expand the textural palette, while at the same time highlighting the rhythmic aspects of the duo's interactions...The interactions remain nuanced and intricate, with sublimely delicate moments balanced with a general penchant for pursuant momentum." Wilbur MacKenzie, All About Jazz - New York
album:
YaY (Fresh Sound New Talent 2008)
"... Braff's prepared piano and Blaser's extended trombone vocabularies expand the textural palette, while at the same time highlighting the rhythmic aspects of the duo's interactions...The interactions remain nuanced and intricate, with sublimely delicate moments balanced with a general penchant for pursuant momentum." Wilbur MacKenzie, All About Jazz - New York
album:
YaY (Fresh Sound New Talent 2008)
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