Jazz Articles about Lars Bernsten

About Lars Bernsten

Album Review

Oddgeir Berg Trio: While We Wait For A Brand New Day

by Dan McClenaghan
December 2, 2022

Writing about Norway's Oddgier Berg trio and discussing the group's terrific debut album Before Dawn (Ozella Music, 2018), one reviewer said that Berg and his mates were “A group to keep an eye and both ears on." That writer was spot on. The trio followed up that auspicious first effort with In the End Of The Night (Ozella Music, 2019), maintaining the same atmospheric, often gloomy introspection, bringing the long, cold Scandinavian winter darkness to mind with deliberative ...

Album Review

Oddgeir Berg Trio: Christmas Came Early

Read "Christmas Came Early" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 20, 2021

The late Paul Bley (1932-2016) once said of his ECM Records release Open, To Love (1972), that the sound he created there was his attempt to prove he was the slowest pianist in the world. He was a man with a sense of humor, and his tongue had surely wormed its way into his cheek with that observation. And the mention of Bley in a review of an Oddgeir Berg Trio album comes about for a couple of reasons. One: ...