Wollny/Kruse/Schaefer: [em] Live – review

(ACT)It might be shortchanging this young German group's distinctive character, but the [em] trio's current music has heir-to-EST written all over it, and not only because they record for the same label that the late Esbjörn Svensson did so much to put on the map. But while the square-bracketed [em] (the letters declare drummer Eric Schaefer and pianist Michael Wollny to be equal members of bassist Eva Kruse's group) share Svensson's knack for rock-band intensity, jazz spontaneity and classical...

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