Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born 23 September 1971 in Oppdal Municipality, Norway) is a Norwegian bassist active in the jazz and free jazz genres.

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 Ornette Coleman–inspired band he recorded records Olemanns kornett (1994) and ... of Christmas (1995), toured in northern Europe and had festival gigs with such different combos as Motor Psycho and Cikada Quartet (both in 1995). Already in 1993 he was part of jamkompet at Kongsberg Jazz Festival.

To Brumbasser og en Bi was later better known as the Maria Kannegaard Trio. From 1994 he had a duo with Michael Bloch, and became a member of Jax from the same year, including festival gigs in Oslo and Moldejazz. He appeared on Bugge Wesseltoft's album New Conception of Jazz (1995–96), and from 1995 he was a member of two successful groups, one of them the Paul Bley–inspired trio Close Erase, with recordings in 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. A record with Bugge Wesseltoft, New Conception of Jazz, was released in 2004, the same year he was awarded Vitalprisen at Kongsberg Jazzfestival. In 2011 he released the record My heart always wanders, which he did with Håkon Kornstad and Jon Christensen. In the same year he contributed to Ola Kvernberg's record Liarbird, receiving Spellemannprisen 2011.

Honors 2004: Kongsberg Jazz Award

Selected projects Atomic Element The Thing Scorch Trio Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quintet

Major collaborators Ken Vandermark Joe McPhee Paal Nilssen-Love Bugge Wesseltoft Håvard Wiik Ola Kvernberg

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)