UWE OBERG SOLO PIANO


UWE OBERG plays ELLINGTON

Duke Ellington is one of the most eminent musicians of the 20th century. Many of his pieces have become
significant Jazz-standards.
"Ellington's music accompanied me all my life. His way of playing piano definetly left traces with me.
Beside my own music I love to immerse into the Jazz-tradition. I'm fascinated by history and its transition into today.
I deciated concerts to Thelonious Monk, Steve Lacy, Paul & Carla Bley oder John Coltrane, now it has to be Duke
Ellington!"

I don't want to play Ellington's compositions simply and straightforward. I'm having fun with the sound of his big band,
his piano technique, his titles, all that is important for my approach to Ellington. And I like to blend his music with my
originals, my personal sound."

        

As a soloist, Uwe Oberg focusses on free playing with original compositions. In the last years he has embedded
material of different origin. He starts freely, procees with an original and ends up in a Coltrane tune, all in one piece. Deconstruction / transformation / transition. Where is the bridge, what happens to a piece if it develops from a very different one? Finding is challenge and fun.

Monk and Steve Lacy always have been good companions, but there are also lovely pieces by Annette Peacock or
Robert Wyatt. Whatever Oberg plays, he transforms each material in his very personal, twinkling sound without
musical borders.

Oberg played on numerous CDs and received 2007 the award "Hessischer Jazzpreis".
His CD "WORK" has been voted for The Wire Top 50 Releases of 2015.

          


REVIEWS:

Everything he touches becomes informed and intensified. ART LANGE / CHICAGO

On WORK:
This recording is a reminder of his mastery as pianist and improvisor. ANDY HAMILTON / THE WIRE Feb. 2016

On WORK & TWICE, AT LEAST:
Two 2015 solo albums make the best case for pianist Uwe Oberg. PETER MARGASAK / CHICAGO READER Jan. 2016

On WORK:
This is one of the best solo piano efforts I've heard in recent memory, working on several fronts simultaneously.
BRUCE LEE GALLANTER / DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY Dez. 2015

On TWICE, AT LEAST:
Oberg possesses a unique approach: at times frugal, at others erratic or classical. Here is a man as comfortable
with one hand on the keys and the other in the belly of his grand piano beast as he is delicately playing by the rules
with both hands on deck. LONDON JAZZ NEWS Okt. 2015

Oberg is one of the few, who really joins american with european improvised music;(...) one of the most intriguing
pianists at the fascinating intersection of New Music and Free Jazz, who impresses mainly with an economic style.
OTMAR KLAMMER, RADIO ORF / AUSTRIA


UWE OBERG PIANO SOLO
TWICE, AT LEAST

Seven pieces by Oberg, A. Peacock, C. Bley, Lacy, Monk.
Rec. in Wiesbaden 2013/15 (Leo Records 733, 2015)
Listen on bandcamp

"Oberg possesses a unique approach: at times frugal, at others erratic or classical."
Read more: LONDON JAZZ NEWS / Oct. 2015
FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU REVIEW
TWICE, AT LEAST: longlist for the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" 2016.

UWE OBERG PIANO SOLO
WORK

Six pieces by Oberg, Monk, Coleman, Coltrane, Mingus, Wyatt.
Rec. at Sommermusik Saarbrücken 2008 (hatOLOGY 740, 2015)

"This is one of the best solo piano efforts I've heard in recent memory".
DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY Dez. 2015
WORK has been voted for the The Wire: Top 50 Releases of 2015

Listen on bandcamp

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