Jon Eberson

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

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

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

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

In 1986, the album Stash at Odin in a trio with Bjørn Kjellemyr and Audun Kleive; from the following year he led his own trio with Paolo Vinaccia and Kjellemyr. From 1987 he played in a quartet with Morten Halle, Bjørn Kjellemyr and Finn Sletten and Pål Thowsen, originated with the recorded several albums.

With Audun Kleive 1991-1992 he took the album Music for Men and Machines on. From 1992 he played in a trio E.A.T. (since 1996 The Net ) with Tom Erik Antonsen and Pål Thowsen. With Thorbjørn Sunde he played songs of Chet Baker, with Morten Halle and Beate Lech Slettevold he recorded the album Metropolitan; more albums created with Terje Gewelt and Svein Finnerud.

In 2000 they created the Jon Eberson Group Album Dreams That Went Away; In 2001, Eberson the albums Jazz For Men ( in a duo with Carl Morten Iversen ) and Mind the Gap ( in trio with Paal Nilssen - Bjørnar Andresen and Love ) on. In the same year he received the Buddy Award from the Norwegian Jazz Forum.

Discography

  • Jazz guitarist
  • Norwegian
  • Born in 1953
  • Man
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