Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born 23 September 1971 in

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) is a Norwegian

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active in the

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and

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genres. (in Norwegian)

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(in Norwegian)

Career

Flaten played electric bass in local funk trio ''Neon'' (1990), and studied on the Jazz program at Trondheim Music Conservatory (1992–94). He was involved in several groups from the first year at NTNU, including ''Trondhjems Kunstorkester'', ''To brumbasser og en bi'', and the successful group ''The Source''. With the latter

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inspired band he recorded records ''Olemanns kornett'' (1994) and "... of Christmas' (1995), toured in northern Europe and had a festival gigs together with such different constellations as ''Motor Psycho'' and ''Cikada Quartet'' (both in 1995). Already in 1993 he was part of jamkompet at

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. ''To brumbasser og en bi'' was later better known as ''

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Trio''. From 1994 he had a duo with

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, and became a member of "Jax" from the same year, including festival gigs in

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and

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. He attended the Bugge Wesseltoft's album ''New Conception of Jazz'' (1995–96), and from 1995 he was a member of two successful groups, the

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inspired trio ''Close Erase'', with recording 1995 1998, 2001 and 2006. He also appeared on tours and festivals, as well as re-release 2010, "R.I.P. Complete Recordings 1995–2007, and the Coltrane inspired quartet ''Element''. In the winter of 1995–96 Flaten moved to

and this led to many new involvements, like Acidband, SAN: ''Song'' (1996), ''Oslo Groove Company'', ''YoungLove'', and not least the super trio with

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(1996–), usually just called ''The Trio'': ''Meet the locals'' (1998), ''In color'' (1999) and ''Mystery unfolds'' (2001), ''Tour de force'' with

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(2000). Moreover, his authoritative bass have been listening to records with

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(1996),

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(1997), ''Jazzmob'' (1998),

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's ''Sharing'' (1998), ''Moving'' (2001) and ''Live'' (2000–02), Didrik Ingvaldsen (2000), two albums with the band ''School Days'' (2000 and 2001), seven albums with ''The Thing'', a trio with

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and

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(2001), ''Live at Blå'' (2003), ''Action jazz'' (2005), ''Now and forever'' (2005), ''Immediate sound'' with

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(2007) and ''Bag it!'' (2008), ''No Spaghetti Edition'' (2001) and og Atomic: ''Feet music'' (2001), ''Boom Boom'' (2002), ''The Bikini tapes'' (2004), ''Happy new ears!'' (2005), ''Retrograde'' (2007–08) and ''Theater Tilters, vol 1–2'' (2010). New recordings coming, like ''The Electrics'' (2002) and ''The Scorch Trio'' (with

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) 2002 og 2004, ''Brolt!'' (2008) and ''Melaza'' (2010). In 2003 he released his solo album ''Double bass'', and the same year he participated on the record ''Bjørn Johansen in memoriam'' and the fusjon of ''Atomic'' and ''Schooldays'' released in the album ''Nuclear assembly hall'', followed by ''Distil'' (Chicago 2006). A record with

''New Conception of Jazz'' released in 2004, the same year as he was awarded ''Vitalprisen'' at

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. In 2011 was published the record ''My heart always wanders'', which he did with

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and Jon Christensen, from the same year he contributed on the

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's record ''Liarbird'' receiving

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2011. Flaten runs the annual Sonic Transmissions Festival, a festival in Austin, TX devoted to hybrid free-jazz forms.

Honors

*2004:

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Selected projects

* Atomic *

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* The Thing *

Scorch Trio Scorch may refer to: Entertainment * Scorch, a dragon puppet character created by Ronn Lucas ** Scorch (TV series), ''Scorch'' (TV series), a 1992 CBS sitcom starring the Ronn Lucas character * Scorch (comics), a.k.a. Aubrey Sparks, an antagonist ...

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet Ingebrigt is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ingebrigt Davik (1925–1991), Norwegian teacher, children's writer, broadcasting personality, singer and songwriter *Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born 1971), Norwegian bassist active in ...

Major collaborators

Joe McPhee Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who plays the tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, the flugelhorn and the valve trombone. Although born in Miami, Florida, McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, ...

Håvard Wiik Håvard Skarpnes Wiik (born 10 March 1975) is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, known from a number of recordings with bands like Atomic, and performances with musicians like Petter Wettre, Ola Kvernberg and Stian Carstensen. Career Wii ...

Discography

; Solo albums * 2003: ''Double Bass'' (Sofa) * 2012: ''Birds - Solo Electric'' (Tektite Records Co.Operative) * 2012: ''Steel - Live In Bucharest'' (Tektite Records Co.Operative) ; With Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet * 2006: ''Quintet''( Jazzland Rec/Universal) * 2008: ''The Year Of The Boar'' (Jazzland Rec/Universal)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Flaten, Ingebrigt Haker 1971 births Living people People from Oppdal Musicians from Oppdal Norwegian jazz upright-bassists Norwegian male double-bassists Norwegian jazz composers Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Jazzland Recordings (1997) artists Rune Grammofon artists 21st-century Norwegian upright-bassists 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Atomic (band) members Petter Wettre Quartet members Close Erase members The Source (band) members The Thing (jazz band) members NoBusiness Records artists Okka Disk artists