Samuel Blaser
| Samuel Blaser | |
|---|---|
 Samuel Blaser in Jazz club Unterfahrt (2009) | |
| Born |
1981 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | trombonist |
| Style | jazz |
| Website |
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Samuel Blaser (20 July 1981 in La Chaux-de-Fonds) is a Swiss trombonist and arranger.
Biography
Blaser lived in New York for several years, before he settled in Berlin. He worked increasingly on his projects like Consort in Motion, which is a mixture of jazz inscription with Renaissance and Baroque music and was performed in trio with the double bass player Thomas Morgan and the percussionist Paul Motian. After his first album 7th Heaven (2008) at Hathut Records, he published his other albums Boundless (2011) and At the Sea (2012), which were performed him along with Marc Ducret, Bänz Oester abd Gerard Cleaver.[1] Later, he worked with Pierre Favre (Vol à voile, Intakt Records),[2] with Francois Houle (Genera, 2012) and in Consort in Motian Quintet with Drew Gress, Joachim Badenhorst, Russ Lossing and Gerry Hemingway.[3] In the genre of Jazz, he cooperated in 19 recording sessions between 2000 and 2012.[4]
Discography
- Aeby, Blaser, Pouradier Duteil, Torchinsky, Rêves (YVP Music, 2005)
- 7th Heaven (2008), with Scott DuBois, Thomas Morgan, Gerald Cleaver
- YAY (Fresh Sound Records, 2009), with Malcolm Braff
- Solo Bone (Slam, 2009, solo)
- Pieces of Old Sky (Clean Feed Records, 2009), with Thomas Morgan, Todd Neufeld
- Boundless (HatHut, 2011), with Marc Ducret, Bänz Oester, Gerald Cleaver
- Samuel Blaser & Paul Motian Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue, 2011), with Russ Lossing, Thomas Morgan
- One from None (Fresh Sound, 2012), with Michael Bates, Michael Blake, Russ Lossing, Jeff Davis
- Samuel Blaser, Benoît Delbecq, Gerry Hemingway Fourth Landscape (Nuscope 2014)
- Spring Rain (Whirlwind 2015), with Russ Lossing, Drew Gress, Gerald Cleaver