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Samuel Blaser, Jazz club Unterfahrt, 2009
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Background information | |
Born | 1981 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Trombone |
Website | www |
Samuel Blaser (20 July 1981 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss trombonist and composer.
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 and Gerald Cleaver. Later, he worked with Pierre Favre (Vol à voile, Intakt Records), with Francois Houle (Genera, 2012) and in Consort in Motian Quintet with Drew Gress, Joachim Badenhorst, Russ Lossing and Gerry Hemingway. In the genre of Jazz, he cooperated in 27 recording sessions between 2000 and 2016.