Michael Wollny is a german jazz pianist. He received his piano and violin tuition as a five year-old, and along with classical studies, improvisation was part of the curriculum from the very beginning.He became active throughout Germany, played in the BuJazzO (the national youth jazz orchestra), where tutors Walter Norris and John Taylor held free jam sessions with the young pianist, rather than practising big-band arrangements.The collaboration of three musicians as equals on a level playing field is the idea behind the trio [em]