Forgetful Marte Eberson & Jon Eberson

• 1 Forgetful 02:35
• 2 He Was to Good to Me 02:21
• 3 The Night We Called It a Day 04:20
• 4 Laura 02:05
• 5 Everything Happens to Me 04:12
• 6 Don't Explain 04:34
• 7 It Never Entered My Mind 04:46
• 8 I Concentrate on You 02:31
• 9 The Thrill Is Gone 04:06
• Total Runtime 31:30

Info zu Forgetful

A personal journey through The Great American Songbook.

Marte and Jon Eberson are back with new music – under the joint name Eberson, and with a heart-warming and intimate project that is very close to their musical roots. Their upcoming album, Forgetful, is a collection of their favourite jazz ballads taken from the legendary Great American Songbook – with timeless melodies and lyrics that have shaped American and international music history since the 1940s.

For Jon Eberson, American jazz ballads were never part of the curriculum – they were his heritage. His father, also a jazz guitarist, played them at home: they drifted in from the radio, from worn vinyl records, or popped up in living room jams where family life and music merged.

When Jon had a daughter, the pattern continued. Marte learned the same melodies, not under stage lights or in rehearsal rooms, but in the everyday moments that matter most: on a creaky piano after dinner, a guitar line played half for herself, half for whoever happened to be listening. It wasn't teaching – it was inheritance, absorbed as naturally as language.

Forgetful – Standard Ballads is the sound of returning to this shared space. Father and daughter revisiting the songs that shaped them, without embellishment – no reinterpretation, no grand statements. Just open, intimate and attentive playing. This album is not about turning the standard songs into something new, but about letting them be exactly as they have always sounded at home with them: honest, intimate and alive.

The album moves through songs that have been with them for decades: Rodgers & Hart's ‘He Was Too Good to Me’ and ‘It Never Entered My Mind’, Mercer and Rakins' “Laura”, Porter's ‘I Concentrate on You’, along with Holiday's ‘Don't Explain’, and Dennis/Adair's classics ‘The Night We Called It a Day’ and ‘Everything Happens to Me’. It all ends with Hawkins and Darnell's ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ – not as a lament, but as a quiet blessing.

Marte Eberson, vocals
Jon Eberson, guitar

Jon Eberson
Jon’s strong musical merit list as a composer and guitarist stretches back to the 70’s, from bands like “Moose Loose,” Blow Out, and the band to Radka Toneff, via the 80’s “Jon Eberson Group”, “Jazzpunkensemblet” and a series of groups in various jazz contexts. In recent years he has released several albums with Hilde Marie Kjersem and Sigurd Hole.

Marte Eberson
was a key keyboard player in “Highasakite” for almost five years, and has been touring the world around the band, in addition to playing at the biggest festivals at home and abroad. She has also been well-known in diverse musical landscapes, through collaboration with several of Norway’s major musical names in both jazz and pop, including Martin Halla, Sjur Miljeteig and Hedvig Mollestad. Marte also released the solo album “Mad Boy” in 2016.

In the band EBERSON we meet a musical distillate that reflects Jon and Marte Eberson's diverse musical experience: From the Jazzpunk ensemble to Highasakite, from Moose Loose to Hedvig Mollestad - and much more!

Jon Eberson has been a central musician in Norwegian jazz and jazz-related music for almost 50 years. He led the legendary The Jazzpunk Ensemble, he played with Radka Toneff, he was very successful with his band Jon Eberson Group. Who doesn't remember Jive Talking!. It's a big leap from there to Mind the Gap with Paal Nilssen-Love and Bjørnar Andresen, but it clearly shows how versatile he is, and he does everything with an equally natural skill.

In recent years, he has had a very fruitful collaboration with his daughter Marte Eberson, and together they have released two critically acclaimed records under the name Eberson. Marte brings with her experience from various genres. She has traveled the world as a former member of the pop band Highasakite. She has the band Löv, with Øystein Skar and Martin Halla, played duo concerts with Ane Brun, and in recent years has played a lot with guitarist Hedvig Mollestad.

About Eberson's last record, Between Two Worlds, writes Arild R. Andersen on Jazz in Norway: "Bass, percussion and drums are the engine of the performance, for a close-fitting drive of an exclusive brand." And he concludes by saying that it is "an unloved album. A project that wins through extended contact. A place where jazz, pop and rock form alliances and make each other beautiful".

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