{"id":3391,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/erik-truffaz-the-mask\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"erik-truffaz-the-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3391","title":{"rendered":"Erik Truffaz &#8211; The Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"Right\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/themask.jpg\" alt=\"Erik Truffaz\" align=\"Right\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"0\" height=\"130\" width=\"130\"\/><font size=\"2\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\">The Mask<\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  Erik Truffaz<br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\">   (Blue Note &#8211; 2000)<br \/> by Raymond Redmond  <\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"spacer.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">  Erik Truffaz, a French trumpet player, was introduced to the general public in 1998 as a major European jazz artist thanks to <i>The Dawn<\/i>, a groovin&#8217; mix of jazz, Drum&#8217;n&#8217;Bass and hip-hop. This album met with critical acclaim and commercial success all over Europe, as one of the most innovative album of the 90&#8217;s. Jazz fans as well as DJs and fans of electronic and dance music took to Truffaz&#8217;s ground breaking musical approach which blends his muted trumpet stylings with elements of jazz, down-tempo groove, hip hop and drum &amp; bass. <\/p>\n<p>The first tune, <i>Sweet Mercy<\/i> begins with a strong, rhythmic bassline with stark percussive background, in comes the guitar riff and the horn and you instantly think MILES DAVIS! That is the best description I can give you of this release&#8230; think Miles Davis, around the time he made <i>Bitches Brew<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Dawn<\/i> is the free-wheeling percussive-intensive title piece from Truffaz&#8217;s first release. <i>Bending New Corners<\/i>, the title track from his soon-to-be-released CD, uses a lot of synthesizer licks and old-style riffs. This is probably my favorite. Truffaz has a way of taming the busy-ness of the rhythm with the fluidity and emotion of the horn. Overall <i>The Mask<\/i> brings some of this rhythmic\/avant-garde artist&#8217;s best to an american audience that may not have heard of Erik Truffaz&#8230; I hadn&#8217;t. You should. <\/font>  <\/p>\n<p>          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mask Erik Truffaz (Blue Note &#8211; 2000) by Raymond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}