A little off the beaten track is the quintet of double bass player Eva Kruse. On the one hand, this is due to the cast: with Tjadina Wake-Walker, she has an oboist at her side. And on the other hand, a concept that builds a bridge between strictly conceived chamber music and jazz.
Many will remember Eva Kruse as the bassist of the successful band Trio [em], which she founded with Michael Wollny and Eric Schaefer, in which she was active as a woofer and composer from 2002 to 2013. In the meantime, she was also on the road with Nils Landgren, with whom she has been working for many years.
"New Legend" is the name of the latest work that Eva Kruse has recorded with her distinctive quintet at the Svenska Grammofonstudion, Gothenburg. In recent years, this formation has grown together into an organism with a common, individual sound language. Interactions now sound even more lively, timbres even more nuanced, targeted frictions more finely tuned. Eva Kruse already received a lot of praise and recognition for her previous albums "In Water" and "On The Mo".
Perhaps her compositions are a sonorous symbol of her life situation: Since 2012, the Hamburg-born artist has been living with her family on a car-free archipelago island at the gates of Gothenburg, inhabited by 900 people. At the same time, she is an active musician who always breaks out of calm into the world of jazz clubs and large concert stages. After ten years together with Wollny and Schaefer, she took her own compositional and tonal paths with her quintet. The instrumentation is a real special feature due to a wind section with the oboe, which is rarely found in jazz.

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