Ingebrigt Håker Flaten wins coveted Buddy-Prisen Award.???

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten has won Norway's leading jazz award, the Buddy-Prisen, awarded by the Norwegian Jazz Forum. Press release attached.

We have received the following press release;

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten wins coveted Buddy-Prisen Award, Norway’s Highest Honour for Jazz Musicians.

Buddyprisen (established 1956 in Oslo, Norway) is an award, given annually by the Norwegian Jazz Forum to a Norwegian jazz musician that has “been an excellent performer and significantly involved in Norwegian jazz by other means”. The award was accompanied by a statue portraying the New Orleans trumpeter Buddy Bolden, made by visual artist Lise Frogg. From 1987, recipients have received a travel grant; in 2011, the grant amounted to NKR 50,000. The awards ceremony takes place at the club “Bare Jazz” in Oslo.

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (b. 1971, Oppdal) –  studied Jazz at the Music Consevatory in Trondheim, Norway (1992-1995) under the tutelage of bass player Odd Magne Gridseth.
While the fertile Scandinavian new jazz scene offered a vast amount of opportunities to work in different bands with musicians whose concepts are as individual as the grains in a reed, Flaten has found home and on-the-bandstand education in places as far flung as Chicago and his current residence Austin, Texas.

He plays in ensembles as diverse as The Thing, Free Fall, Atomic, Scorch Trio and the Kornstad/Håker Flaten Duo. In addition to his own Chicago Sextet and Austin-centric Young Mothers, Flaten has also recorded and performed with Frode Gjerstad, Dave Rempis, Bobby Bradford, the AALY Trio, Ken Vandermark, Stephen Gauci, Tony Malaby, Daniel Levin, Dennis Gonzalez and numerous others.

In 2011, he formed The Young Mothers, which includes drummers Stefan Gonzalez (Dallas) and Frank Rosaly (Chicago), trumpeter/poet/rapper Jawaad Taylor (New York), saxophonist Jason Jackson (Houston), and Jonathan Horne (Austin) on guitar. “It’s a group of varying levels and influences and as it grows organically, will be another excellent lens through which to view Flaten’s aesthetic, philosophy, and musicianship.”


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