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Birth name
  
Jon Arild Eberson

Name
  
Jon Eberson

Website
  
www.jonebersongroup.no


Instruments
  
Guitar

Origin
  
Norway

Genres
  
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Born
  
6 January 1953 (age 71) Oslo (
1953-01-06
)

Occupation(s)
  
Jazz musician, Guitarist, Composer

Associated acts
  
Jon Eberson GroupEbersson/Zanussi/Lofthus TrioJazzponk EnsembletRadka Toneff Quintet

Role
  
Composer · jonebersongroup.no

Albums
  
Pigs and Poetry, Jazz for Men, Twelve O'Clock Tales

Music groups
  
Jon Eberson Group, Jazzpunkensemblet, Ebersson/Zanussi/Lofthus

Similar People
  
Hilde Marie Kjersem, Sidsel Endresen, Pal Thowsen, Morten Halle, Radka Toneff

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Jon Arild Eberson (born 6 January 1953 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, son of jazz guitarist Leif Eberson (1925–1970), father of keyboardist Marte Maaland Eberson, and known from bands such as Moose Loose (1973–77), Radka Toneff Quintet (1975–80) and Blow Out (1977–78).

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Career

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Eberson had his debut recording as guitarist on Ketil Bjørnstad's debut album Åpning (1972). In 1980 he formed the Jon Eberson Group, supported by vocalist and lyricist Sidsel Endresen. The group attracted great attention with releases such as Jive Talking (1981) that was awarded Spellemannprisen and City Visions (1984), but was split in 1986. The following year he released the Eberson Pigs and Poetry with Endresen, and he has continued to be noticed in a variety of contexts like the Jazzpunkensemblet.

Eberson is a versatile guitarist working in the border line between jazz and rock. He released the album Dreams That Went Astray (2001), closely followed by the album Jazz for Men, along with bassist Carl Morten Iversen, and the album Mind the Gap, with bassist Bjørnar Andresen and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. Eberson, who also is Associate Professor of guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, was awarded the Norwegian Buddy Prize for 2001.

In 2013 the great Norwegian guitar master celebrated his 60'th anniversary with a solid comeback at the Oslo Jazzfestival, presenting a firework of a band named Eberson Funk Ensamble including buckets of new compositions and a brilliant quintet across generations. The line up is constituted by the grand 58 years old drummer Pål Thowsen, bassist Sigurd Hole and saxophonist Kim-Erik Pedersen both Jazz graduates from the Norwegian Academy of Music where Eberson is a key educator, and last but not the least, his keyboardist daughter Marte Maaland Eberson, with a backgrounds including jazz studies at the Grieg Academy in Bergen.

Honors

  • 1981: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz rock for the album Jive Talking, together with Sidsel Endresen
  • 2001: Buddyprisen
  • Early days

    Started his career early 1970, with these projects:

  • Magni Wentzel until 1976
  • Moose Loose with Brynjulf Blix, Sveinung Hovensjø, Pål Thowsen, 1973-77
  • Elgen er løs (Plateselskapet Mai, 1974)
  • Transition (Vertigo, 1976)
  • Radka Toneff, 1975-80
  • Winter Poem (Zarepta, 1977, reissued on Verve)
  • It Don't Come Easy (Zarepta, 1979, reissued on Verve)
  • Ketil Bjørnstad
  • Åpning (Philips, 1973)
  • Berget det blå (Philips, 1974), Eberson on two tracks
  • Leve Patagonia (Philips, 1978)
  • Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun (Hete Blikk, 1982)
  • Duo with Knut Værnes
  • Anatomy of the Guitar (NorDisc, 1979)
  • Pål Thowsen
  • Surprise (NorDisc, 1979)
  • Sympathy (NorDisc, 1983), Eberson on two tracks, co-credits for another track
  • Håkon Graf/Sveinung Hovensjø/Jon Eberson/Jon Christensen
  • Blow Out (Compendium, 1977)
  • Jon Balke 1978-79
  • Since 1980 he has been in charge of his own groups:

  • jazz quartett (1980-81)
  • Jon Eberson Group with Sidsel Endresen, 1980-90
  • Jive Talking (CBS, 1980)
  • Jazzrock (1981)
  • Polarities (CBS, 1982)
  • City Visions (CBS, 1984)
  • Stories (CBS, 1985)
  • Pigs and Poetry as Jon Eberson & Sidsel Endresen (CBS, 1987)
  • (Jon Eberson's) Jazzpønk Ensemblet, 1982-present
  • Live at Rockefeller (Odin, 1993)
  • Thirteen Rounds (Curling Legs, 1997)
  • Jon Eberson Trio featuring Bjørn Kjellemyr and Svein Christiansen, 1983-86
  • Stash (Odin, 1986)
  • Jon Eberson Stash featuring Nils Petter Molvær, Torbjørn Sunde, Bjørn Kjellemyr and Paolo Vinaccia
  • Backhand Smash! (Hot Club, 1989)
  • At the same time, he worked with

  • Chipahua big band with Morten Halle, Torbjørn Sunde, Nils Petter Molvær, Sidsel Endresen a.o., 1979-86
  • The Soul Survivors (Hit Records!, 1984)
  • Oslo Rhythm & Blues Ensemble, 1980-82
  • Prøv en gang til! (single, Torpedo Plater, 1981)
  • Morten Halle/Jon Eberson/Bjørn Kjellemyr/Finn Sletten
  • Blow! (Odin, 1990)
  • 2 (Curling Legs, 1992)
  • The Eagle (Curling Legs, 1995), with Pål Thowsen replacing Finn Sletten on drums
  • Kleive/Eberson
  • Music for Men and Machines (Curling Legs, 1992)
  • Sidsel Endresen
  • Exile (ECM,1994)
  • The turn of the millennium

    2001:

  • Dreams That Went Astray (Jazzland Recordings), within Jon Eberson Group featuring Beate and Pål Strangefruit (Nyhus)
  • Jazz for Men (Curling Legs), duo with Carl Morten Iversen
  • Standards (Curling Legs), duo with Carl Morten Iversen
  • Mind The Gap (Curling Legs), trio with Bjørnar Andresen & Paal Nilssen-Love
  • 2002:

  • The Rest Is Rumours (Curling Legs), with Pål Thowsen
  • Twelve O'Clock Tales (Curling Legs), duo with Hilde Marie Kjersem
  • 2003:

  • Tri Ó Trang Plays Jon Eberson (Curling Legs), with Eberson & Per Oddvar Johansen
  • 2004:

  • Evening Songs (Taurus Records), with Roger Johansen
  • Love Is Blind (Curling Legs), within «Metropolitan»
  • 2006:

  • Bring It On (Jazzaway Records), by Ebersson/Zanussi/Lofthus Trio
  • Levende på Fyret (Live at the Lighthouse) (Ivereber Records), duo with Carl Morten Iversen
  • 2009:

  • Born to Be Slow (NorCD), with Rob Waring and Carl Morten Iversen
  • 2010:

  • Comfort Call (Shipwreckords), with Hilde Marie Kjersem & Sigurd Hole
  • 2011:

  • The Coarse Sand & The Names We Wrote (JEG Records), within Jon Eberson Group
  • 2012:

  • El Doom & The Born Electric (Rune Grammofon), within «El Doom & The Born Electric»
  • 2014:

  • Do the Dance (JEG Records), within Eberson Funk Ensemble
  • References

    Jon Eberson Wikipedia