A
delight of the Festival was bumping into Eric Truffaz's set on the
Jazz World stage on Sunday early afternoon. Knowing nothing of him
and his group and relatively little modern jazz, it was still clear
that this was something special.
Eric
Truffaz plays the trumpet in the style of late miles Davis and was
accompanied by an extremely talented group consisting of Fender
piano, electric bass, drums and a wicked MC called Nya. Whilst the
trumpet and piano were following fairly typical modern jazz lines,
the bass and drums produced a kicking breakbeat to an extent that
would have had the dance tent jumping. Indeed, by the end of the
set there was a decent sized crowd seriously getting off on the
slamming beat, not bad for a Sunday afternoon. The vocals over the
top were highly reminiscent of Reprazent and helped to build an
incredible fusion of musical genres. Each
of the group played solos with rousing cheers for the bassist and
drummer.
Having
not realised that music like this even existed, Eric Truffaz's back
catalogue will be in my CD collection by, say, Monday afternoon.
Check them out.
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