Jon Eberson

Jon Eberson at the Kongshaugfestival 2019
Image: Tore Sætre

Jon Eberson (born January 6, 1953 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist.

Live and act

The son of jazz guitarist Leif Eberson has been working as a professional musician since he was eighteen. He gained his first experience with the quartet of saxophonist Vidar Johansen . After appearances with various jazz rock groups, he worked with Svein Finnerud in 1972 , made his first recordings with Ketil Bjørnstad the following year and performed with his first own quartet in the same year.

After 1973 he worked a. a. with Magni Wentzel , the jazz rock group Moose Loose (1973-1977) and the Radka Toneff Quintet (1975-1980) and recorded with Ketil Bjørnstad , Knut Værnes and Pål Thowsen . 1978-1979 he led a quartet with Jon Balke .

From 1980 to 1981 Eberson led his own jazz quartet, then the Jon Eberson Group (from 1987 Jon Eberson / Sidsel Endresen Group ), with which he recorded several albums. The album Jive Talking received the Spellemann Prize in 1981 . He also played in Oslo Rhythm & Blues Ensemble and the Jazz Punk Ensemble , a trio formation with Bjørn Kjellemyr and Svein Christiansen and the Soul Band Chipahua , joined with Pål Thowsen and Arild Andersen and looked at the performance of Per Husbys Jazz Suite Notes for Nature with .

1986 the album Stash was created by Odin in a trio with Bjørn Kjellemyr and Audun Kleive ; from the following year he led his own trio with Kjellemyr and Paolo Vinaccia . From 1987 he played in a quartet with Morten Halle , Bjørn Kjellemyr and Finn Sletten or Pål Thowsen, with whom several albums were created.

With Audun Kleive he recorded the album Music for Men and Machines from 1991-1992 . From 1992 he played in the trio EAT (since 1996 The Net ) with Tom Erik Antonsen and Pål Thowsen. With Torbjørn Sunde he played songs by Chet Baker , with Morten Halle and Beate Slettevold Lech he recorded the album Metropolitan ; further albums were created with Terje Gewelt and Svein Finnerud .

2000 the album Dreams That Went Away was created with the Jon Eberson Group ; In 2001 Eberson recorded the albums Jazz For Men (in a duo with Carl Morten Iversen ) and Mind the Gap (in a trio with Bjørnar Andresen and Paal Nilssen-Love ).

Prizes and awards

Eberson received a Spellemann Prize in 1981 in the Rock category together with Sidsel Endresen, with whom he received another Spellemann Prize in 1984. In 2001 he was awarded the Buddy Prize.

Discographic notes

• 1980: Jive Talking , Jon Eberson Group
• 1981/1982: Polarities , Jon Eberson Group
• 1983: City Visions , Jon Eberson Group
• 1985: Stories , Jon Eberson Group
• 1986: Stash with Bjørn Kjellemyr, Audun Kleive
• 1987: Pigs and Poetry , Jon Eberson Group
• 1997: Thirteen Rounds with Tom Erik Antonsen , Erik Balke , Tore Brunborg , Jon Christensen , Morten Halle , Bjørn Jenssen , Bjørn Kjellemyr, Torbjørn Sunde , Pål Thowsen, Paolo Vinaccia , Christian Wallumrød , Bugge Wesseltoft
• 1989: Back Hand Smash! with Morten Halle, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Finn Sletten / Pål Thowsen
• 1989: Blow! with Morten Halle, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Finn Sletten / Pål Thowsen
• 1991: 2 with Morten Halle, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Finn Sletten / Pål Thowsen
• 1991: Live at Rockefeller , Jazz Punk Ensemble
• 1991–1992: Music for Men and Machines with Audun Kleive
• 1994–1995: The Eagle with Morten Halle, Bjørn Kjellemyr, Finn Sletten / Pål Thowsen
• 1997: Thirteen Rounds , Jazz Punk Ensemble
• Metropolitan with Morten Halle, Beate Slettevold Lech
• 2000: Dreams That Went Astray with Tom Erik Antonsen , Beate Lech , Pål Strangefruit , Pål Thowsen, Bugge Wesseltoft
• 2001: Jazz For Men with Carl Morten Iversen
• 2001: Mind the Gap with Bjørnar Andresen, Paal Nilssen-Love
• 2006: Bring It On , Jon Eberson Trio
• 2011; The Coarse Sand & The Names We Wrote with Hilde Marie Kjersem, Sigurd Hole, Finn Sletten and Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen u. a.