UWE OBERG Piano
JOE FONDA Bass
LUCÍA MARTÍNEZ Drums
„For quite a long time I didn’t play in that tradition-loaded trio line-up with bass and drums, but with Joe and Lucía it’s an almost entire new thing. It’s joy and challenge at the same time. There’s an exciting freshness to it, that deals with the present. “
Rhein/Main-based pianist Uwe Oberg and bassist Joe Fonda from New York City have a long-standing musical friendship. Together with Berlin-based spanish drummer Lucía Martínez they have formed a new multicultural trio.The trio is a collective collaboration, with each member bringing their individual and cultural musical personalties into the totality of their music.
Lucía Martínez, Berliner by-choice and coming from Spain, has a rich percussion arsenal and links Mediterranean rhythms with avantgardistic sounds. Joe Fonda is a bass-legend from New York’s downtown-scene. „This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order“, says Anthony Braxton. Uwe Oberg plays on the edge of Jazz and new improvised music.
This trio proves itself a distillation of the classic piano-trio: freethinking and aware of tradition, curious and passionate – a raw, uncut diamond.
„Oberg’s instincts were spot on when choosing his partners for this disc and Relight is free piano trio playing at its finest.“
THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD | FEBRUARY 2020
ALL ABOUT JAZZ / JOHN SHARPE JANUARY 2020
UWE OBERG
plays original compositions, free improvisation, inside-piano and music of different origin.
Otmar Klammer ORF/Austria wrote: „Oberg is one of the few, who really joins american with european improvised music;(…) one of the most intriguing pianists at the fascinating intersection of New Music and Free Jazz, impressing with an economic style.“
Oberg is leading various bands and plays with musicians like Heinz Sauer, Mark Sanders, Paul Rogers, Silke Eberhard, Gerry Hemingway a.m.o. He received the Jazz Award of Hessen 2007. International concerts, numerous CD’s.
JOE FONDA
plays a major bass-role in the New York downtown-scene and has projects in Europe as well. Anthony Braxton says: „There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The musicof Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda’s offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.“
Fonda plays a.o. with the Fonda/Stevens Group, with Satako Fuji, Conference Call, The Fab Trio and joined the reknowned A. Braxton Ensemble from 1984 through 1999. He is touring worldwide and has recorded a great number of CD’s.
LUCÍA MARTÍNEZ
comes from Spain and lives in Berlin. She belongs to the younger european generation and is into classical music, worldmusic and contemporary Jazz. With her diverse percussion she blends Avantgarde music with mediterranean sounds. Martínez plays with Agustí Fernández in duo, with her own quartet, Lucía Martínez & the Fearless, MBM Trio. International concerts, a lot of CD’s.