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Uuskyla Øgrim Berg

Uuskyla Øgrim & Berg is a new free jazz power trio that plays improvised music with influences from jazz and rock. The band's first album Ullr received widely positive response from the contemporary jazz and impro press (see below). A concert recording from BrÖtz in Gothenburg was released on Simlas in November 2017.

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Peeter Uuskyla / Tellef Øgrim / Anders Berg: Ullr

Read "Ullr" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Thirty years ago, the trio Power Tools made a one-off recording Strange Meeting (Antilles New Directions, 1987). The long out-of-print LP by Bill Frisell, Melvin Gibbs, and Ronald Shannon Jackson is on many a collector's want list. While only a short-lived band, its memory persists. It was for many, a perfect storm of free-metal-jazz music. If I had one wish, it would be for drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson (1940-2013) to still be with us. And Tony Williams. Okay, two wishes. ...

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....most striking about this album is the way in which the musicians anticipate and respond to each other...no single member outshines another... Uuskyla provides a foundational groove through most of the album...I often wonder whether so many performances really need to be documented and presented to the public. Then, I find an album like this that clearly caught a special band on a special night. And, I start to allow space for the exceptions...The Free Jazz Collective

Oslo Hærverk on Avant Music News' list of "Excellent Releases first half of 2018"

They seem more refined and have progressed considerably on this album. Good Scandinavian avant garde. - Unfretted.com about Oslo Hærverk.

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Sonny Sharrock
guitar, electric
Ornette Coleman
saxophone, alto
Jimi Hendrix
guitar, electric
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
band / ensemble / orchestra

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Uusklyla Øgrim &...

Hærverk Industrier
2019

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LAIV

Simlas
2018

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Ullr

Simlas
2017

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