Oddgeir Berg Trio

CVJAZZ kicks off 2024 with Scandinavia’s AWARD-WINNING Oddgeir Berg Trio. Electroacoustic jazz with one leg in melancholy and the other in pure ecstasy. Jazz trios named after the piano player give certain expectations, be it Horace Silver and his tender "Que Pasa" or Esbjørn Svensson and his Northern sounds, clarity and intimacy are common to these, with a hint of tonal melancholy. These characteristics are also present in the Oddgeir Berg Trio, who are clearly familiar with a Scandinavian jazz tradition. Tunes such as "The Mermaid’s Dance" and "Springeren" summon images of bonfires by the sea lit to herald the summer solstice and the inevitable turn of the season when Autumn arrives and buries its roots and turns with fine melodic lines into the silence of winter. 

Piano/keys / Oddgeir Berg

Doublebass / Karl-Joakim Wisløff

Drums / Lars Berntsen

Doors open at 7:15 pm