"A remarkable musician, who has developed an unique sound as an free improvising sound-explorer as well as a Jazz-improvisor" (Peter Niklas Wilson).
The German pianist Uwe Oberg (*1962/Offenbach) started playing piano at the age of seven, moved in the early 80s from popular music to Jazz and joined in 1986 the KOOPERATIVE NEW JAZZ / ARTist Wiesbaden, an association of improvising musicians.
Improvisation is the keyword for his work. Impressed by Free-Jazz and New Music, he has developed exceptional piano techniques; influences are Thelonious Monk, Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor, Don Pullen, Ran Blake, Andrew Hill, the music of Anthony Braxton, the early piano compositions of John Cage and mainly european free improvisation.
He is also a composer and a highly individual interpret of Jazz-compositions. He works in various musical contexts: as a soloist he bends the bow from inside pianoto the music of Monk. In his trio and quartet Oberg plays original and other compositions - but whatever he plays, he transforms each material in his very personal, twinkling sound without musical borders.
Beside fixed projects he enjoys the improvised encounter with musicians from different styles and cultures. He often played in combination with other artforms, theatre / dance / lyrics, currently mainly with silent films, as a soloist and with ensembles.
Cooperation with:
ALFRED HARTH, PETER KOWALD, XU FENGXIA, MATTHIAS SCHUBERT, PHILIPPE MICOL, JÜRGEN WUCHNER, ULI PHILLIPP, TONY OXLEY, SVEN-AKE JOHANSSON, RUDI MAHALL, HR JAZZENSEMBLE, HEINZ SAUER, URS LEIMGRUBER, SAADET TÜRKÖZ, SUBROTO ROY CHAUDHURI, PAUL LOVENS, AXEL DÖRNER, FRANK GRATKOWSKI, ERIC PLANDÉ a. m. o.
2004 he has been invited for the project "DARMSTADT-WARSZAWA / SHARED SPACES" at the "Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik", Darmstadt and the Warsaw Autumn.
In December 2007 Oberg received the award HESSISCHER JAZZPREIS.
ENSEMBLES:
UWE OBERG TRIO / QUARTET
U. O. Piano / Georg Wolf bass / Jörg Fischer drums
+ Matthias Schubert ts or Frank Gratkowski sax, cl
LACY POOL (music by Steve Lacy)
U. O. piano / Christof Thewes trombone / Michael Griener drums (CD HatHut Records)
CUSH
U. O. piano / Saadet Türköz voice / Paul Lovens drums & perc.
UWE OBERG & EVAN PARKER
U. O. piano / Evan Parker ss, ts (CD Jazzwerkstatt May 2010)
UWE OBERG in combination with:
XU FENGXIA guzheng, voc. / FRANK PAUL SCHUBERT saxes / URS LEIMGRUBER saxes / FRANK GRATKOWSKI altosax, cl. / HEINZ SAUER saxes
FRENCH SILENT FILM-AVANTGARDE WITH LIVE-MUSIC
Films by Man Ray, Fernand Leger etc., Music by U. O. piano / Uli Böttcher electronics
P. O. P. TRIO
Eric Plandé ss, ts / U. O. piano / Peter Perfido drums
TRIO GENERATIONS
Joe Fonda or Paul Rodgers bass / U. O. piano / Emil Gross drums
