Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born September 23, 1971 in Oppdal ) is a Norwegian jazz bassist.
Live and act
The son of an organist grew up with six musical siblings. He first played the piano and guitar and then switched to bass guitar and acoustic bass. From 1992 to 1994 he attended the Trøndelag Conservatory of Music , where he studied with the bassist Odd Magne Gridseth , the saxophonist Jon-Paal Inderberg and the pianist Erling Aksdal .
He has lived in Oslo as a professional jazz musician since 1995, where he has worked with groups such as The Source , Element (with Håvard Wiik ), the Maria Kannegård Trio and the Petter Wettre Trio . Between 1997 and 2004 he toured with Bugge Wesseltoft's group New Conceptions of Jazz . Together with Wesseltoft he performed with musicians such as John Scofield , Joshua Redman and Erik Truffaz .
Then he worked a. a. with the groups Atomic , The Thing (with Mats Gustafsson and Paal Nilssen-Love ), the Scorch Trio (with Raoul Björkenheim ), The Electrics (with Axel Dörner ), Free Fall (with Ken Vandermark ), Close Erase (with Christian Wallumrød ) and the Tore Brunborg Kvartett . He also worked with rock bands such as Motorpsycho and Cato Salsa Experience and performed at the Rikskonsertene with Palestinian and Indian musicians.
Flaten worked on more than forty albums and worked as a musician a. a. with Evan Parker , Paul Lytton , Joe McPhee , Joe Lovano , Yusef Lateef , Tony Oxley , Iain Ballamy , Dave Liebman , Chris Potter , Zim Ngqawana , Benoît Delbecq , L. Subramaniam , Billy Cobham , Neneh Cherry , Eivind Aarset , Nils Petter Molvæ and Jean-Luc Ponty .
In 2003 Flaten released the solo album Double Bass . In 2004 he received the Vitalprisen at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival .
Selected discography
- The Year of the Boar (Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet, 2008)
- Quintet (Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet, 2006)
- Double Bass (solo album, 2003)
- Brooklyn DNA (with Joe McPhee, Clean Feed , 2012)
- The Cherry Thing (with The Thing and Nene Cherry, Smalltown Supersound, 2012)
- Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden (with Jeff Parker , Dave Rempis , Ola Kvernberg , Jason Adasiewicz , Frank Rosaly , Tektike, 2013)
- A Mothers Work is Never Done (with The Young Mothers, Tektite Records, 2014)
- Lotte Anker · Pat Thomas · Ingebrigt Haker Flaten · Ståle Liavik Solberg : His Flight's at Ten (Iluso, 2018)
Web links
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's homepage
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten at Discogs (English)
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten at Allmusic (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Flaten, Ingebrigt Håker |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flaten, Ingebrigt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian jazz bassist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd September 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oppdal |