The Mask

by Erik Truffaz

The Mask cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: France
  • Length: 1:05:07
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A Blue Note compilation of Erik Truffaz's first three EMI France recordings, 'Out of a Dream', 'The Dawn' and 'Bending New Corners', issued as the trumpeter signed to the label. The source albums trace his move from acoustic jazz toward the drum and bass and hip hop inflected sound of 'Bending New Corners'.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, melodic, rhythmic, atmospheric, sophisticated

Tracklist

  1. Sweet Mercy (2:07)
  2. Arroyo (6:27)
  3. More (6:10)
  4. Less (3:56)
  5. No Choice (7:09)
  6. The Mask (5:00)
  7. The Dawn (5:44)
  8. Betty (4:17)
  9. Bending New Corners (8:09)
  10. Minaret (5:58)
  11. And (10:10)

Credits

  • Erik Truffaz - primary artist, trumpet
  • Marc Erbetta - drums, percussion
  • Marcello Giuliani - electric bass, acoustic bass
  • Patrick Muller - piano, electric piano [fender rhodes]

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