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Album Review

[em] live is the fourth album from [em], the German trio also known as Wollny/Kruse/Schaefer. The album was recorded at the 2010 JazzBaltica festival in Salzau--the complete concert except, as the sleeve notes declare somewhat sternly, “for listening pleasure the applause has been shortened." It's a combination of new compositions and four tunes taken from [em]'s previous albums--an inventive, often hard-edged and rock-inspired set from this extremely talented group. Bassist Eva Kruse, who founded the band in ...

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[Em]: [em] 3

by John Kelman
March 23, 2008

Despite the belief, in some corners, that jazz as an American form has to contain certain traditional and specifically cultural components in order to make it jazz, globalization has resulted in artists examining sources farther abroad to place in an improvisational context. The four year-old [em] brings an impressionistic European classicism to [em] 3, but in a way that moves the spirit of composers including Igor Stravinsky, Edvard Greig and Gyorgy Kurtag into territory embracing of democratically conversational improvisation and ...