Doors 7pm
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Famous French trumpet player Erik Truffaz plays from his experimental project where European contemporary jazz meets Indian classical music.
Erik Truffaz, a top French jazz performer, has recorded over ten albums and is well established in the United States. “Jazz with energy and soul, and a lot of open space”, wrote Rolling Stone of the performer. “Intelligent, uncompromising, contemporary music played by virtuosos with rich fantasy and spirit”, claims the magazine Jazz Times. Erik Truffaz was introduced to the general public in 1998 as a major European jazz artist. His album «The Dawn», an astonishing experimental mix of jazz, Drum'n'Bass and hip-hop, met with critical acclaim and commercial success: almost 20,000 copies sold in France, 10,000 abroad, and the beat goes on...
After more than 120 concerts in just over a year it is through his stage work that the public have discovered the subtlety and sophistication of each composition, backed by the consistency of a really tight group: a breath of fresh jazz air in which each member of the group is by turns leader, accompanying musician and composer in his own right, each and every one of his inspirations recorded on disc and played on stage. It's precisely the way they work that has enabled Erik Truffaz to go beyond the barriers of genres, to let the music take its shape from the time, the place and the mood of each musician. That makes each concert a surprise, not just for the audience but for the musicians themselves, too.
Born in Brazil in 1970, Malcolm Persson Braff consider himself as a world citizen! He grows up in Dakar, in Senegal, before coming to Switzerland when he was 13 years old. His prolific career is filled with many different projects. Malcolm Braff discovered jazz when he was 19 years old and two years later he was already playing with his trio “Kwartet” at the Cully Jazz Festival. Since then, his musical journey consists of an accumulation of beautiful projects: more than 20 albums as a leader, he played 4 times in a row at the Montreux Jazz Festival, six times at the Cully Jazz Festival and many worldwide tours. His incredible success led Malcolm Braff to sign a contract with the famous label, Blue Note (Together and the Preacher). Recently, Malcolm released a new album with his trio (Yele on UNIT records) including Alex Blake on double bass and Yaya Ouattara on Djembé. Apurba Mukherjee is a bright and talented tabla player in the world of Indian Classical Music. Apurba comes from a musical family in Calcutta. He took his initial training from Sri Shankar Mukherjee. Since 1989 he has been learning from none other than the celebrated maestro Pandit Shankar Ghosh, the guru of many of the eminent tabla players of the present day.
Besides playing various concerts in India Apurba has already toured in England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Finland, Holland, Amman (Jordan) and U.S.A, with different musicians. He also worked on many experimental projects with Indian and foreign musicians (fusion, jazz, folk). He is the chosen accompanist of many high ranked vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers, besides being a tabla soloist as well. Apurba’s style depicts wonderful filigree of thought, imagination, taalim and riyaaz. Indrani’s great artistic temperament and exceptional aesthetic sensibility has left an indelible impression on the minds of her audiences and critics alike. In 1996 she was selected as a scholar of the prestigious ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Calcutta and came under the able guidance of Pandit Arun Bhaduri. Indrani is also learning Thumris and Bhajans from Bidushi Purnima Choudhury, great exponent of Thumri from Benaras Gharana. She acquired degree of “Sangeet Prabhakar” from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad and “Upadhyay” from Trailokya Sangeet Parisad, Calcutta. She performed many concerts in India and abroad, in France, Germany, England and Syria.
