Sometimes it only takes a little to travel, to immerse yourself for a moment in some memory. And it is on the Danish ratings of her childhood that Line Kruse found the source of her new album bånd. Line Kruse has always invited us on her travels, and her five previous albums draw a precise map of her encounters and discoveries in the territories of Afro-Latin jazz. The brilliant Invitation, with the Trio Lopez Nussa and Dayme Arocena, revisited Prokofiev and the best of Cuban jazz. With Hidden Stone, she crossed the bow with a full big band, under heavy fire from Afro-Peruvian percussion. More limited in her transport (pandemic obliges) but not in her inspiration, Line Kruse has summoned her longtime friends, the septet which accompanies her on her tours in Scandinavia. They are not unknown on the Danish scene, and the line-up of this sixth album is almost all-star. But it wasn't so much for their respective CVs as for their friendships that the seven came together. "We've known each other for a long time, and I think that shows in the way we play together. There's great joy in getting together, it's always very relaxed, and I think that's even more important in the period we are going through. I called this record bånd, which means "link" in Danish, in homage to everything that binds us, to others, to our countries of origin and adoption, our cultures who are enriched by our encounters."
