Øyvind Brække

Øyvind Brække (born 25 August 1969) is a Norwegian jazz musician (trombone), composer, music arranger and band leader, best known for Bodega Band and S. Møller Storband. He was the initiator of the popular and still active band The Source, who released several albums, and made contributions to dozens of recordings with musicians like Chick Corea, Eirik Hegdal, Per Zanussi, Erlend Skomsvoll, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Knut Kristiansen, Jacob Young, Trygve Seim, Per Oddvar Johansen, Mathilde Grooss Viddal, Dingobats, Sverre Gjørvad, Motorpsycho, FriEnsemblet and Come Shine.

Career Brække was born in Bærum, where his jazz career started in Sandvika Storband. He played on the SS recordings Come Rain or Come Shine (1989) and Contemporary Music For Big Band (1991) with them, and joined the band "Why Not" in 1990. He studied on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium (1991–93), and was a member of several bands on the Trondheim jazz scene, including Bodega Band from 1992 (recording. 1992) and S. Møller big band, which he led. Great luck did student band "The Source" which he co-founded in 1992. The quartet has so far made seven CDs, "Olemann cornet" 1994, "Of Christmas" 1995, "The MotorSourceMassacre" 2000, "The Source and different cikada" 2002, "Of Christmas Live at Blue", 2002, "The Source" 2005 and "The Source of Christmas Live" (released 2007). It has completed a number of tours and festival gigs, including along with the rock band Motorpsycho and string quartet Cicada.

Discography Within "Sandvika Storband» 1989: Come Rain or Come Shine (SS Records) 1991: Contemporary Music For Big Band (SS Records) 2011: A Novel Approach (SS Records), as guest soloist

Within The Source (Trygve Seim & Per Oddvar Johansen) 1994: Olemanns Kornett (Curling Legs) 2000: Roadwork Vol. 2: The MotorSourceMassacre (Stickman Records, Germany), with Motorpsycho & Deathprod 2002: The Source And Different Cikadas (ECM Records), with 2005: The Source: Of Christmas (Curling Legs) 2006: The Source (ECM Records) 2007: Live (Grappa Music)

Within Trondheim Jazz Orchestra 2000: Live in Molde (MNJ Records), TJO & Chick Corea 2004: We are? (Jazzaway Records), TJO & Eirik Hegdal 2009: What if? A Counterfactual Fairytale (MNJ Records), TJO & Erlend Skomsvoll 2009: Morning songs (MNJ Records), TJO & Per Zanussi 2011: Migrations (MNJ Records), TJO & Brække