Samuel Blaser

Samuel Blaser in the Unterfahrt jazz club (2009)

Samuel Blaser (born July 20, 1981 in La Chaux-de-Fonds ) is a Swiss trombonist and arranger .

Live and act

Blaser lived in New York for several years before settling in Berlin. He is increasingly working in his own projects, including Consort in Motion , a mixture of jazz improvisation, renaissance and baroque music, in a trio with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Paul Motian . After his debut album 7th Heaven (2008) with HatHut Records , other albums followed, such as Boundless (2011) and At the Sea (2012), on which Marc Ducret , Bänz Oester and Gerald Cleaver participated. He also worked with Pierre Favre ( Vol à voile , Intakt Records ), with François Houle ( Genera , 2012) and in the Consort in Motion Quintet with Drew Gress , Joachim Badenhorst , Russ Lossing and Gerry Hemingway . In the field of jazz, Blaser participated in 19 recording sessions between 2000 and 2012.

Discographic notes

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
Taktlos Zurich 2017 (hatOLOGY, 2018), with Marc Ducret , Peter Bruun
Samuel Blaser & Marc Ducret: Audio Rebel (2020)

Web links

Commons : Samuel Blaser - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Blaser, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss jazz trombonist and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Chaux-de-Fonds

[1] Review of the album at All About Jazz

[2] Reviews (intact)

[3] Samuel Blaser "Consort in Motion" Quintet

[4] Tom Lord Jazz Discography