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Oberg, Uwe / Silke Eberhardt: Turns (Leo Records)

Playful, joyful and absolutely commanding performances from the duo of German pianist Uwe Oberg and Silke Eberhard on alto sax and clarinet, performing both live and in the studio on original compositions and pieces by Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, and Annette Peacock.
 

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Uwe Oberg-piano

Silke Eberhard-alto saxophone, clarinet


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UPC: 5024792074921

Label: Leo Records
Catalog ID: LEOR749.2
Squidco Product Code: 22004

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2016
Country: UK
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pieces 6, 7, 9 recorded live at Loft in Cologne, Germany, on April 14th, 2015.

All other pieces recorded at Studio H2 in Berlin, Germany, on January 17th, 2015

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"In the wake of two Uwe Oberg's solo piano CDs comes a duo with a saxophone player Silke Eberhard. They are mature musicians drawing from vast experiences of all kinds of music, ready to sacrifice their egos for the sake of creating unforgettable music. Half of the dozen pieces on the CD are standards by Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre and Annette Peacock, but pieces by Uwe and Silke have every chance to becoming jazz standards as well."-Leo


Artist Biographies

"Uwe Oberg *1962 Offenbach / Germany, lives in Wiesbaden nearby Frankfurt.

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 Free Jazz and New Music, he 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 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. With LACY POOL he dives into the music of Steve Lacy, the duo with SILKE EBERHARD plays originals as well as music by Carla Bley, Annette Peacock a.o. ROPE is an improvising quartet with european line-up. Whatever Oberg 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 December 2007 Oberg got the award HESSISCHER JAZZPREIS. Laudatio by Dr. Wolfram Knauer (in German Language)"

-Uwe Oberg Website (http://www.uweoberg.de/e.html)
3/13/2024

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"Silke Eberhard is a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer based in Berlin. In addition to her long-standing trio with Jan Roder and Kay Lübke she leads her wind quartet Potsa Lotsa that interprets the compositional work of Eric Dolphy and her septett Potsa Lotsa Plus. She works with many collective ensembles including a duo with Ulrich Gumpert, a duo with drummer Alex Huber, the trio I am Three. She performed and/or recorded with numerous musicians of the international jazzscene such as Aki Takase, David Liebman, Wayne Horvitz, Dave Burrell, Gerry Hemingway, Michael Zerang, Hannes Zerbe a.m.o. CDs on record labels like Jazzwerkstatt, Not Two, Leo, INTAKT, Intuition document her work. Her album Potsa Lotsa Love Suite Plus plays by Eric Dolphy was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics 2015/1."

-Silke Eberhard Website (https://silkeeberhard.com/about-2/)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Ping Pong Pogo 2:25

2. King Korn 3:42

3. Emphasis 5:29

4. Enzym and Eros (Var. 2) 5:33

5. Both 4:26

6. Syndrome - Narrow Window 12:08

7. Batterie 3:08

8. Scootin' About 4:15

9. Roomer's Loot 5:22

10. Sketch No. 5 3:13

11. Mr. Joy 3:56

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Improvised Music
Jazz
Free Improvisation
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Duo Recordings
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