ENSEMBLES
UWE OBERG TRIO
Oberg (piano) / Georg Wolf (bass) / Jörg Fischer (drums)
+ Frank Gratkowski (clarinets, altosaxophone)
+ Heinz Sauer (tenor-, sopransaxophone)
LACY POOL
the music of Steve Lacy
Oberg piano w Christof Thewes (trombone) & Michael Griener (drums, percussion)
UWE OBERG & EVAN PARKER
Oberg (piano) & Evan Parker (sopran-, tenorsaxophone)
CUSH
OBERG / TÜRKÖZ / LOVENS
Oberg (piano) Saadet Türköz (voice) & Paul Lovens (percussion)
SCHUBERT / SOMMER / OBERG
Frank Paul Schubert (ss, as) / Guenter "Baby" Sommer (dr) / U.O. (piano)
UWE OBERG in combination with
Evan Parker (sopran-, tenorsaxophone)
Xu Fengxia (guzheng, voice)
Frank Paul Schubert (sopran-, altosax)
Frank Gratkowski (altosaxophon, clarinets)
Urs Leimgruber (sopran-, tenorsaxophone)
Saadet Türköz (voice)
Paul Lovens (percussion)
SILENT FILMS WITH LIVE-MUSIC
(films by Man Ray, Ruttmann, Leger a.o.)
SOLO PIANO
improvisations / compositions / the music of Thelonious Monk
PLANDÉ / OBERG / PERFIDO
Eric Plandé (tenor-, sopransaxophone) / Uwe Oberg (piano) / Peter Perfido (drums)
TRIO GENERATIONS
Paul Rodgers or Joe Fonda (bass) / Uwe Oberg (piano) / Emil Gross (drums)
VITA
The German pianist Uwe Oberg (*1962/Offenbach) develops his music in the center of Jazz and Improvised Music. "Oberg is one of the most interesting free pianists of the younger generation." (Michael Rieth, Frankfurter Rundschau)
He 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 the Free-Jazz and New Music achivements, he has developed his exeptional 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 as well as 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 piano to the music of Monk. In his trio/quartett 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, EVAN PARKER a.m.o.
In 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 got the award HESSISCHER JAZZPREIS.