Oddgeir Berg Trio (Norway)

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Oddgeir Berg Trio (Norway)
Electroacoustic jazz with one leg in melancholy and the other in ecstasy.

“…A Trio for the new millennium”
– Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

“One of the leading modern jazz trios of the post-Esbjorn Svensson Trio landscape.”
– Ian Patterson, All About Jazz, live review.

Oddgeir Berg Trio is based in Oslo, Norway and has toured widely across Europe at major festivals and leading clubs such as Ronnie Scott’s. The group has also toured in Japan, China and the USA, Rochester International Jazz Festival, NY and as part of Nordic Jazz in Washington, DC. The group consists of Oddgeir Berg, compositions and keys, Audun Ramo, Double Bass and Lars Berntsen, Drums.

OBT released their 5th album in June 2024, A Place Called Home, on the excellent German label, Ozella Music.

A Place Called Home
The island of Rolla is tiny and sparsely populated — a mere 900 people live here. On A Place Called Home, Oddgeir Berg takes us to this, his father’s birth place, for a concept album about the magic of nature, the spaces hidden in memory, and the bonds that family provides.

The music was written with a new trio line-up and during a period of personal turmoil, including a cancer diagnosis for Berg’s mother, and the worries which accompanied her treatment. As one would expect, the music feels intimate and pastoral, mostly slower-paced and introspective.

But there are also moments of gentle exploration here as well as a beautiful bass solo by new member Audun Ramo. It is an invitation to a journey – to make any place your home.