EVA KRUSE
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Nu Jazz • Germany

Eva Kruse was born the 16th of october 1978 in Hamburg/ Germany. 1998-2003 she studied acoustic bass and improvisation at the university of arts “UdK” in Berlin with teachers Sigi Busch, Jerry Granelli and David Friedman. She also went to Sweden to study with bassist and professor Anders Jormin in Göteborg for one term. 1999-01 Eva was a member of the german youth-jazzorchestra “BuJazzO”, where she took classes with pianist John Taylor who inspired her into starting writing music for different bands and projects. 2002 she founded her own band with pianist Michael Wollny and eVa bass and rocks quadrat drummer Eric Schaefer and what started as “Eva Kruse Trio” soon became the highly acknowledged trio [em]. With [em] Eva has released five albums on ACT Records, toured worldwide over the last ten years and has won two grammy´s in Germany as “best national ensemble”. Since 2012 the band is called “Michael Wollny´s read more...