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The Young Mothers: A Mothers Work Is Never Done
by Mark Corroto
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten reminds us that jazz is the musical equivalent of a dark star, a musical black hole, absorbing all musical energy and classifications. The Norwegian-born bassist-turned Austin, TX resident assembled a multi-genre sextet under the uncategorizable name The Young Mothers. Sure, let's not call this jazz, because it would alienate 99% of fans. But jazz, in truth, it is. The bassist has a taste for the extreme reaches of jazz. As a member of the Scandinavian ...
Continue ReadingIngebrigt Håker Flaten: Live at Jazzfest Saalfelden
by Mark Corroto
Of the twelve current projects in which bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten works, his Chicago Sextet is the one that, perhaps, most foretells his future as a jazz impresario. Like bassist Dave Holland, who made his reputation with trumpeter Miles Davis and in the band Circle, before championing (almost exclusively) his own bands both large and small, Flaten has begun to open his own seminary of music.A mainstay of the now infamous Scandinavian bands Atomic and The Thing, Flaten ...
Continue ReadingIngebrigt Haker Flaten New York Quartet: Now IS
by Mark Corroto
The term “texture" is often used when referring to an artist's work. The surfaces of German painter Gerhard Richter or American Jackson Pollock's paintings are rich with tactile feel, but the trained viewer can also appreciate the art below the cosmetic. The same applies to the quartet of improvisers organized by Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten.Best known for his work in the bands Atomic, The Thing, Paul Giallorenzo Trio, and Free Fall, since moving to Texas Flaten has ...
Continue ReadingNeneh Cherry & The Thing: The Cherry Thing
by Mark Corroto
The Scandinavian power trio of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love named their band The Thing in 2000, after the Don Cherry composition from Where's Brooklyn (Blue Note, 1966). In their subsequent dozen or so albums, they have covered Cherry's music and that of Albert Ayler, Joe McPhee, and Duke Ellington. The Thing has also ventured outside the jazz idiom to perform music by The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeah, PJ Harvey, and Cato Salsa ...
Continue ReadingFlaten/ Kornstad/ Christensen: Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker I: Live At Oslo Jazz Festival
by Mark Corroto
If folk music is music of “the people," then certainly adding the designation of “jazz" is a redundancy. When a jazz trio such as that of bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, saxophonist Håkon Kornstad and drummer Jon Christensen performs traditional Norwegian folk music, it is both reaffirming the oral (or aural) tradition of the music and the human context (or familia) of sound and improvisation.The music heard on Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker I: Live At Oslo Jazz Festival (My ...
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Scorch Trio: Melaza
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista americano di origine finlandese Raoul Bjorkenheim continua imperterrito ad esercitare una efficace opera di destrutturazione del linguaggio della chitarra elettrica con il suo trio denominato Scorch che lo vede affiancato, per questa occasione, dal bassista Ingebrigt Haker Flaten e dal batterista Frank Rosaly (che prende il posto di Paal Nilssen- Love). Gli otto brani sono tutti a firma collettiva del gruppo, testimonianza di una scelta compositiva che pesca sostanzialmente dalla verve improvvisativa che ben sostiene questi tre musicisti ...
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Trinity: Breaking the Mold
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trinity è un quartetto che come Supersilent, Atomic, The Thing riunisce improvvisatori di gran classe che sanno forgiare musica tellurica caratterizzata da indipendenza e originalità. Vero leader di questa formazione è Kietil Moster, ex sassofonista dei Core, che dopo alcuni anni trascorsi in Sudafrica e frequentazioni rock/hardcore con Datarock è tornato, ormai da qualche tempo, al jazz. Registrazione live, colta nel 2006 a Molde, con Morten Qvenild (leader di In The Country e Magical Orchestra con Susanna Wallumrod) alle tastiere, ...
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