Eva Kruse

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Eva Kruse at a concert by [em] (Würzburger Hafensommer, August 8, 2010)

Eva Kruse (born October 16, 1978 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass , composition ).

Career

Eva Kruse grew up in Brunsbek in Schleswig-Holstein . In her childhood and youth, she received classical piano lessons for eleven years and, at the age of fourteen, at the suggestion of a teacher, began to learn the electric bass . She played this in the school big band and with the Bargteheider suburban crocodiles . After she was accepted into the Landesjugend-Jazz-Orchester Schleswig-Holstein at the age of 18, she decided to switch to the double bass. In 1998 Eva Kruse moved to Berlin to study “Jazz / Improvisation” with Sigi Busch , Jerry Granelli and David Friedman at the University of the Arts , with the double bass as the main instrument. She refined her technical playing on the double bass in 2000 during a semester abroad in Gothenburg with Anders Jormin . She also took courses with John Taylor , who encouraged her to write her own compositions for various ensembles. Her musical idols on the double bass include Dave Holland , Gary Peacock and Anders Jormin.

Act

Eva Kruse ( St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2009)

During her student days Eva Kruse played smaller tours with the April Light Orchestra and the Tied & Tickled Trio from Weilheim and from 1998 to 2000 under Peter Herbolzheimer in BuJazzO . During her time at BuJazzO and studying in Berlin, she met the pianist Michael Wollny and the drummer Eric Schaefer . They played together since 2002 and founded the trio [em] ; concert tours, festival appearances and the publication of a total of four CDs followed. In 2009 they received the BMW Welt Jazz Award and in 2011 the New German Jazz Prize .

Together with Eric Schaefer and the guitarist Arne Jansen she played in the Arne Jansen Trio . From this collaboration, the publications My Tree and Younger Than That Now emerged. She also plays with Arne Jansen, Niels Klein and Nils Tegen in the Firomanum quartet , as well as in the Berlin pop / jazz / electronic band SOAP .

Eva Kruse has a special relationship with the Schleswig-Holstein Jazz Baltica Festival . She often took part in the opening concert and played with [em] , Firomanum , the saxophonist Bunky Green , and the Jazz Baltica Ensemble under the direction of Johannes Enders . There she met the Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren , who invited her to various projects. For example, she took part in his formation New Eyes on Bach, founded in 2007, and accompanied him on his annual Christmas with My Friends tour. In recent years she has led her own groups, which have an unusual timbre due to the coexistence of oboe and soprano saxophone.

Prizes and awards

In 2011 and 2013 she was awarded with the Trio [em] with the ECHO Jazz ( national ensemble of the year ). Kruse received the ECHO Jazz as the best bassist (national) in the years 2015 and 2017 for their album In Water and On the Mo .

Discographic notes

  • Firomanum: Firomanum (beautiful listening, 2003)
  • [em]: Call It [em] ( ACT , 2005)
  • Young Friends: The Great German Songbook (ACT, 2005, with Axel Schlosser , Florian Trübsbach , Johannes Lauer , Michael Wollny, Eric Schaefer)
  • Firomanum: Scope (Traumton, 2006)
  • SOAP: busca busca! (Height Mansion Productions 2007, with Hendrik Stiller, Lars Dieterich, Pelle Hinrichsen)
  • Bunky Green: The Salzau Quartett Live at Jazz Baltica (Traumton, 2008)
  • Arne Jansen Trio: Younger Than That Now (Traumton / INDIGO, 2008)
  • Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer: [em] live (ACT, 2010)
  • In Water (Redhorn Records, 2014; Tjadina Würdinger, Uwe Steinmetz, Bugge Wesseltoft , Christian Jormin)
  • On the Mo (Redhorn Records, 2016; with Tjadina Würdinger, Uwe Steinmetz, Christian Jormin, Eric Schaefer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2004/03/11/271972.html
  2. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/das-trio-em-erhaelt-den-bmw-welt-jazz-award-2009
  3. ↑ Firomanum
  4. ↑ Jazz Facts: The double bass player Eva Kruse Deutschlandfunk , January 7, 2016
  5. ^ Winner of the ECHO Jazz 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (double bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg