SELECTED REVIEWSOberg is one of the few, that really join 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. RADIO ORF / AUSTRIA
(...) everything he touches becomes informed and intensified. ART LANGE / CHICAGO
Great players, luminously entertaining album. (about LACY POOL) MASSIMO RICCI / TOUCHING EXTREMES
Confirming that the music of a true original like Lacy is best celebrated by adding to it rather than copying, the three leap into the Lacy Pool
at the deep end. Accepting this challenge, they still manage an Olympic medal-like performance.(about LACY POOL)
KEN WAXMAN / March 2010 (pdf)
This is supple, intricate, accomplished European contemporary jazz of the highest order (about the CD "After All)
DAN WARBURTON / THE WIRE (pdf)
The CD "after all" is a pleasing introduction to the best of what contemporary European jazz has to offer these days.
MASSIMO RICCI, TOUCHING EXTREMES / ROME (pdf)
Oberg is one of the most interesting free pianists of the younger generation. MICHAEL RIETH, FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU
The music suggests a continous flow with a great abundance of sounds - the musicians move in it with passion and intuition (about the CD "LO")...
JAZZ NOTES / FRANCE
Oberg on the piano surprised with unusual ideas and a Tayloresk intensity...he sounds like Monk as a Free-Jazz player...
BADISCHE NEUE NACHRICHTEN
Fascinating communication & intensity (about the CD "LO")... MUSICA JAZZ / ITALY
An extremely intelligent mixture of New Music and Avantgarde-Jazz.(about the CD "Dedicated").. JAZZTHING
A man who allies the lightning-fast technique of Borah Bergman with Sophie Agnel or Sylvie Courvoisiers highly developed inner-piano playing. Beautiful sonorities and acute listening have turned this album into one of 2003's best improv records. (on the CD "Looking" with Xu Fengxia)
FRANCOIS COUTURE, ALL-MUSIC-GUIDE (pdf)
COMPLETE ARTICLES
KEN WAXMAN / Jan. 2011 UWE OBERG & EVAN PARKER - FULL BLOOM (Jazzwerkstatt 092) (pdf)
DOWNBEAT Okt. 2010 about CD "LACY POOL" (pdf)
KEN WAXMAN / March 2010 UWE OBERG / CHRISTOF THEWES / MICHAEL GRIENER - LACY POOL (hatOLOGY 676) (pdf)
CULTURE JAZZ Jan. 2010 about CD "LACY POOL" in french language! (pdf)
ALL ABOUT JAZZ Dect. 2009 about CD "LACY POOL" (pdf)
DAN WARBURTON / THE WIRE, December 2007 Uwe Oberg / After All / KONNEX CD (pdf)
MASSIMO RICCI, TOUCHING EXTREMES Sept. 2006 UWE OBERG / GEORG WOLF / JORG FISCHER + FRANK GRATKOWSKI - After all (Konnex) (pdf)
CADENCE, February 2004
UWE OBERG, DEDICATED, JAZZNARTS 1603
Five of the pieces carry dedications to other musicians, and the fact, that the dedicatees - Bley, Feldman, Coltrane, Braxton, Weston - are such a varied lot, gives clues to the intriguing nature of the music. There is a fascinating root system at work in these performances, one that gives an impression of a tremendous depth, and a striking degree of creativity. A distinctly European tree, its bark contains that indefinable, ironic sense found in much german art. Its branche, however, reference both American and European improvised music, gnarling them up in ways that sets this particular quartet apart from the rest of the herd.
The quietly compelling theme of the Braxton tribute opener casts a wide-intervalled theme, typical of his subject, in an unusually warm harmonic environment. This draws the listener in deeply, even more when Oberg's piano spirals around the tense melody in Cecil Taylor-ish pulsations. Saxophonist Schubert, who counts Gunter Hampel, Simon Nabatov and Mark Feldman among his playmates, digs deep in a robust, Chicagoan tenor tradition for this track, and contorts the "After The Rain" theme in true free-Jazzer fashion on this track. Drummer Jörg Fischer has an acute ear for texture, and an easy-rolling approach for rhythm that's reminiscent of the casual brilliance of a Jim Black, or a Paul Lovens.
The Morton Feldman dedication is more late 1960's Art Ensemble Of Chicago than Feldman to these ears, but is well-done nonethless.
THE WIRE / LONDON Uwe Oberg / Georg Wolf / Jörg Fischer - LO (LEO LAB 030 CD) (pdf)