Michael Wollny's [em]: Wasted & Wanted – review

(ACT)Young German pianist Michael Wollny brings this spirited trio to Ronnie Scott's next week, for the second night of Jazzwise magazine's festival – and to judge by the four-track live bonus CD that accompanies this adventurous new studio session, the band's hard-rocking energies and sophisticated improv and composing skills fuse with intensifying heat. The opening title track occupies that chord-punching territory occasionally linking the band with the Bad Plus and Neil Cowley's group, but ...

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