Uwe Oberg

Uwe Oberg is a German pianist and composer born in Offenbach in 1962. Active in jazz and freely improvised music since the early 1980s, he developed a personal piano language drawing on Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley and contemporary composition.

He joined the Wiesbaden musicians' cooperative Jazz/Art.ist in 1986 and has worked with Rudi Mahall, Michael Griener, Xu Fengxia, Tony Oxley and others. His performances range from inside-piano improvisation to interpretations of Duke Ellington and Steve Lacy. Creative Sources features his piano on Sog (CS777) and Poetry for an Album (CS902).