Projects as Band Leader

The Samuel Blaser Trio

with Marc Ducret (guitar), Peter Bruun (drums)
 
The Samuel Blaser Trio has played together extensively in recent years, developing a kinetic language and an active sense of restrained interplay, with each capable of taking one of the other’s musical ideas and pressing it into action. The shape-shifting trio can march, tumble, groove, simmer or flare up, depending on the needs of the moment.

with Russ Lossing (piano), Billy Mintz (drums)

A virtuoso trombonist with a sumptuous sound and confoundingly plastic phrasing, Samuel Blaser is also an inspired composer, striving in the various ensembles he leads to balance a sense of form with the spontaneity of improvisation. By joining forces today with two prestigious representatives of the American school of jazz and improvisation, pianist Russ Lossing and drummer Billy Mintz, Blaser sets out to explore the register of the voice, common to all three instruments, in an asserted "chamber" context and from an entirely original repertoire. This intimate, resolutely lyrical music brilliantly plays on the richness and complementarity of timbres, elevating the "trialogue" to the status of a major art form.

ROUTES

with Alex Wilson (keys), Ira Coleman (bass), Alan Weekes (guitar), Edwin Sanz (drums) featured guests Carroll Thompson (voc), Soweto Kinch (alto)

Inspired by the legacy of Don Drummond, trombonist Samuel Blaser gathered a gang of greats to create the ultimate Jamaican repertoire. ROUTES is the result of their musical camaraderie, anchored in the musical tradition of the island and firmly rooted in jazz.

with Vincent Courtois (cello), Bruno Chevillon (bass)

Samuel Blaser is a virtuoso trombonist with a sumptuous sound and a phrasing of a confounding plasticity. He is also an inspired composer, committed in the various formations he leads to putting in tension a sense of form constantly held with the spontaneity of improvisation. By joining forces today with two prestigious representatives of the French string school, double bassist Bruno Chevillon and cellist Vincent Courtois, Blaser undertakes, in a claimed "chamber" context and from an entirely original repertoire, to explore the register of the voice, common to the three instruments. An intimate and resolutely lyrical music that brilliantly plays on the richness and complementarity of the timbres, which raises the "trialogue" to the rank of a major art.