Check out singer/pianist Oli Rockberger!

[Kyo]

After listening to some of his songs quite a lot in the last few months, I'd like to recommend

the music of Oli Rockberger to every fan of jazz-influenced pop. I found out about Oli through

Hiromi bassist Tony Grey who had him play on both of his solo albums "...moving" and

"Chasing Shadows" (which was released just last week) and plays with Oli's trio frequently.

Oli is an excellent pianist with a pleasant singing voice. His music is very catchy

pop with some jazz elements and nicely worked-out details (lots of displaced beats).

So pay a visit to his website http://www.olirockberger.com and just listen to the first three

songs that the integrated audio player plays. Those are from his promotional CD "Show Me"

and I think they're fantastic! Really good, inventive songwriting, melodies that get stuck in your

head and all that combined with some jazz elements and lots of interesting, playful rhythms

that are tastefully accentuated by the excellent bass and drum duo of Tony Grey and Chris Farr.

It's interesting that someone this talented is unsigned and sells his music himself (two albums so

far). I wonder if this is by choice or if the labels really don't recognize pop talent when they hear it.

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Do we have to guess who the keyboard player is?

[Kyo]

Do we have to guess who the keyboard player is?

Not this time.

[jazz1]

After listening to some of his songs quite a lot in the last few months, I'd like to recommend

the music of Oli Rockberger to every fan of jazz-influenced pop. I found out about Oli through

Hiromi bassist Tony Grey who had him play on both of his solo albums "...moving" and

"Chasing Shadows" (which was released just last week) and plays with Oli's trio frequently.

Oli is an excellent pianist with a pleasant singing voice. His music is very catchy

pop with some jazz elements and nicely worked-out details (lots of displaced beats).

So pay a visit to his website http://www.olirockberger.com and just listen to the first three

songs that the integrated audio player plays. Those are from his promotional CD "Show Me"

and I think they're fantastic! Really good, inventive songwriting, melodies that get stuck in your

head and all that combined with some jazz elements and lots of interesting, playful rhythms

that are tastefully accentuated by the excellent bass and drum duo of Tony Grey and Chris Farr.

It's interesting that someone this talented is unsigned and sells his music himself (two albums so

far). I wonder if this is by choice or if the labels really don't recognize pop talent when they hear it.

Maybe good but does nothing for me!!