“That is some damn good neat reggae. If you are a musician, that should have raised your eyebrow, and if you are just somebody who is cool, I bet it made you feel cooler.”
“El notable trombonista y compositor suizo Samuel Blaser presentará en los próximos meses su nueva entrega discográfica titulada Routes, trabajo inspirado en el legado del célebre trombonista jamaiquino Don Drummond (1932-1969) y donde amalgama el jazz con géneros tradicionales de Jamaica como el ska, el calipso, el mento y el reggae.”
“Rather wonderful this skazz musical homage to the Skatalites’ Don Drummond (1932-1969) - a labour of love that includes some remixes by dub pioneer Lee Perry (who passed away in 2021) played by a superb collection of jazz players fronted by Swiss …”
“The Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser is also a satellite in this cosmos, a constant traveler between genres, constantly on the road, always on the way to new shores, a free spirit who mixes again and again with the most diverse musical worlds. ”
“From Mangelsdorff, Thelin and Rutherford, to Connie and Johannes Bauer, the European free music scene has produced some of the most extraordinary trombonists in jazz and improvised music. Samuel Blaser (b. 1981) seems destined to join that line”
“Many of the cuts here showcase Blaser’s robust tone and wide-swinging improvisations framed by the burnt sparkle of Lossing’s keyboard and the organic tumult of Kamaguchi and Hemingway’s interlocking rhythms”