Projects as Band Leader

COLLABORATIONS

The Samuel Blaser Trio

with Marc Ducret (guitar), Peter Bruun (drums)
 
The Samuel Blaser Trio has played together extensively in recent years, developing a kinetic language and an active sense of restrained interplay, with each capable of taking one of the other’s musical ideas and pressing it into action. The shape-shifting trio can march, tumble, groove, simmer or flare up, depending on the needs of the moment.

+ Samuel Blaser Trio Releases:

  • Dark was the night, cold was the ground (Blaser Music, 2025)
  • ABC vol. 2 (Blaser Music, 2020)
  • ABC vol. 1 (Blaser Music, 2020)
  • Taktlos Zürich 2017 (Hatology, 2018)


Triple Dip

with Russ Lossing (piano), Billy Mintz (drums)

A virtuoso trombonist with a sumptuous sound and confoundingly plastic phrasing, Samuel Blaser is also an inspired composer, striving in the various ensembles he leads to balance a sense of form with the spontaneity of improvisation. By joining forces today with two prestigious representatives of the American school of jazz and improvisation, pianist Russ Lossing and drummer Billy Mintz, Blaser sets out to explore the register of the voice, common to all three instruments, in an asserted "chamber" context and from an entirely original repertoire. This intimate, resolutely lyrical music brilliantly plays on the richness and complementarity of timbres, elevating the "trialogue" to the status of a major art form.

+ Triple Dip Releases:

  • Live in Paris vol 1 + 2 (Blaser Music, 2025)
  • Triple Dip/Roundabout (Jazzdor Series, 2023)


ROUTES

with Alex Wilson (keys), Ira Coleman (bass), Dion Parson (drums)

Inspired by the legacy of Don Drummond, trombonist Samuel Blaser gathered a gang of greats to create the ultimate Jamaican repertoire. ROUTES is the result of their musical camaraderie, anchored in the musical tradition of the island and firmly rooted in jazz.

+ Samuel Blaser ROUTES:

  • Routes, Enja/Yellowbird, May 12th 2023*
  • The Great Tommy McCook, Blaser Music, 2021*


BLASER COURTOIS CHEVILLON

with Vincent Courtois (cello), Bruno Chevillon (bass)

Samuel Blaser is a virtuoso trombonist with a sumptuous sound and a phrasing of a confounding plasticity. He is also an inspired composer, committed in the various formations he leads to putting in tension a sense of form constantly held with the spontaneity of improvisation. By joining forces today with two prestigious representatives of the French string school, double bassist Bruno Chevillon and cellist Vincent Courtois, Blaser undertakes, in a claimed "chamber" context and from an entirely original repertoire, to explore the register of the voice, common to the three instruments. An intimate and resolutely lyrical music that brilliantly plays on the richness and complementarity of the timbres, which raises the "trialogue" to the rank of a major art.


BLASER AUGUSTIN LOPEZ

with Myslaure Augustin (piano), Ramon Lopez (drums)

Voilà plusieurs années maintenant que Jazzdor soutient et accompagne Samuel Blaser dans ses projets les plus audacieux. Pour preuve ce nouveau trio, totalement inédit et joyeusement cosmopolite, dans lequel le tromboniste suisse a choisi de s’entourer du batteur espagnol Ramon Lopez et de la jeune pianiste strasbourgeoise d’origine haïtienne Myslaure Augustin, pour inventer sur le vif une musique intensément organique et authentiquement collective — pleine de rythmes, de couleurs et de surprises.