Offbeat Jazzfestival 2026 – «Bass Desire»

The quintet led by double bassist Eva Kruse is a little out of the ordinary. This is partly due to its line-up: Marie Gitman, an oboist, plays alongside her. It is also due to a concept that bridges the gap 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 and in which she was active as a bassist and composer from 2002 to 2013. In the meantime, she also toured with Nils Landgren, with whom she worked 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 in Gothenburg. In recent years, this formation has grown together into an organism with a shared, individual sound language. Interactions now sound even more lively, timbres even more nuanced, and deliberate friction more finely tuned to each other. Eva Kruse already received much praise and recognition for her previous albums «In Water» and «On The Mo», and she received the German Jazz Award 2021 for «New Legend».

Perhaps her compositions are a musical symbol of her life situation: since 2012, the Hamburg native has been living with her family on a car-free archipelago island off the coast of Gothenburg, home to 900 people. At the same time, she is an active musician who repeatedly breaks out of her peaceful surroundings and enters the world of jazz clubs and large concert stages. After ten years with Wollny and Schaefer, she struck out on her own compositional and musical path with her quintet. The line-up is truly unique, featuring a horn section with the oboe, which is rarely found in jazz.

With

Eva Kruse (bass/composition); Marie Gitman (oboe); Uwe Steinmetz (alto saxophone/soprano saxophone); Christian Jormin (piano); Eric Schaefer (drums)

Program

Eva Kruse (*1978): «New Legend»

Duration

90 minutes, no break

Prices

Pre-sale at → offbeat-concert.ch

Links

→ offbeat-concert.ch