This special trio presents a melodic, highly colourful music full of contrasts, linking the abstract, lyrical chamber jazz of Jimmy Giuffre, with its sense of improvisation, and a harmonic vocabulary drawn from various sources of 20th-century art music and jazz both European and American.

A virtuoso trombonist with a sumptuous sound and confoundingly plastic phrasing, SB 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 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.

“[SB} explores the terse angularities of his own originals, with a smartly elastic rhythm section: Russ Lossing on piano and Billy Mintz on drums”

— The New York Times

“Swept away, charmed, surprised and shaken all at once, we are captivated by the power and creativity of this music: a great moment!”

— Jazz Magazine

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