Moose Loose - Live at Kongsberg 1973

The most ambitious stretched the elastic so far that it almost broke... and
occasionally it did. Jazz was unfaithful with rock, rock with folk music, pop with
contemporary music, everyone was curious about the French gypsy jazz.
A young Norwegian musicians who was noticed was a long- haired guy in a
fannel shirt who played the guitar so that it rumbled in the stomach and echoed
in the walls. Some suffered permanent hearing damage from standing too close
to the speaker when he gave it his all and then some. The guy had grown up with
straight jazz, but then he discovered free improvisers like Pharoah Sanders and
brilliant innovators like Jimi Hendrix. Jon Eberson, a fast and versatile guitarist,
full of both energy and subtlety, that played music in a borderland that had only
just opened its gates. With him, Brynjulf Blix on keyboards, Pal Thorstensen on
bass and Espen Rud on drums.
Oslo- based Moose Loose was inspired by Miles Davis' electric music, from
Bitches Brew onwards, but also by modern jazz musicians such as John Coltrane
and style creators in rock such as Jimi Hendrix.It was a young band, all in their
early twenties, who stood on stage during the Kongsberg Jazz Festival on this
June day in 1973 - on the day 50 years before the result is fnally available.