Samuel Blaser

With his thick, robust sound and bluesy yet still harmonically adventurous style, Swiss-born trombonist Samuel Blaser has made his mark as an internationally recognized jazz leader. Arriving on the scene in the early 2000s, Blaser displayed his knack for aggressive post-bop jazz that hinted at edgier sounds found on his 2008 quartet debut 7th Heaven. He quickly won the respect of veteran mavericks like drummer Paul Motian, with whom he recorded 2010's Consort in Motion, and drummer Gerry Hemingway, who joined him on 2013's A Mirror to Machaut. Ever searching, the trombonist ha...