Nicolas Masson
Swiss saxophonist Nicolas Masson entered the ECM orbit at the helm of Third Reel – the bass-less trio featuring drummer Emanuele Maniscalco and guitarist Roberto Pianca. They released their eponymous album for ECM in 2013, followed by Many More Days in 2015 – “Music far removed from the barbs; virtually removed from this world.” (Neue Züricher Zeitung).
His leader-date Travelers fronting the quartet with Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli followed in 2018. In his review for All About Jazz, John Kelman called the record “both another potential modern masterpiece for the label, and the album that should rightfully bring the same international attention that Masson and his band mates so deservingly enjoy in their native Switzerland.”
The quartet’s second recording, Renaissance, was released in 2025. The Swiss daily Weltwoche’s [...]
Swiss saxophonist Nicolas Masson entered the ECM orbit at the helm of Third Reel – the bass-less trio featuring drummer Emanuele Maniscalco and guitarist Roberto Pianca. They released their eponymous album for ECM in 2013, followed by Many More Days in 2015 – “Music far removed from the barbs; virtually removed from this world.” (Neue Züricher Zeitung).
His leader-date Travelers fronting the quartet with Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli followed in 2018. In his review for All About Jazz, John Kelman called the record “both another potential modern masterpiece for the label, and the album that should rightfully bring the same international attention that Masson and his band mates so deservingly enjoy in their native Switzerland.”
The quartet’s second recording, Renaissance, was released in 2025. The Swiss daily Weltwoche’s Peter Rüedi found the music’s tension “crackling in more discreetly lit interior spaces – in each individual self-reflection, but especially between partners "tuned" to each other in blind understanding through many years of familiarity.
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| YEAR | DATE | Artist | VENUE | LOCATION | |
| 2026 | March 20 |
Nicolas Masson Quartet w/ Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli
"Renaissance" |
Birds Eye | Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2026 | March 21 |
Nicolas Masson Quartet w/ Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli
"Renaissance" |
Birds Eye | Basel, Switzerland |