Origin Norway Name Oyvind Braekke Genres Jazz | Instruments Trombone Role Musician | |
Born 25 August 1969 (age 55)
Baerum, Akershus ( 1969-08-25 ) Occupation(s) Music arranger & musician Associated acts The Source
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra Albums The Source and Different Cikadas Music groups The Source, Crimetime Orchestra Similar People Per Oddvar Johansen, Trygve Seim, Mats Eilertsen, Per Zanussi, Havard Lund | ||
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Øyvind Brække june 3rd 2009
Oyvind Braekke (born 25 August 1969, in Baerum, Norway) jazz musician (trombone), composer, music arranger, band leader, known as band leaer for Bodega Band and S. Moller Storband, initiator of the popular and still active band The Source with several albums, and 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, Dingobats, Sverre Gjorvad, Motorpsycho, and Come Shine.
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Career
Braekke is from Baerum 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 th Trondheim jazz scene, including Bodega Band from 1992 (recording. 1992) and S. Moller 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.
In 1998 Braekke moved permanently back to Oslo where he established himself in various bands. Beside The Source, he has had a long engagements with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, evidenced by the albums Live in Molde (2000), We are? (2004), What if? (2009), Morning songs (TJO & Per Zanussi, 2009) and not least his own significant project with ), Migrations TJO & Oyvind Braekke, performed in trondheim 2009 and released on album in 2011.
Discography
Songs
Jeg gikk meg over sjo og land
Glade juleMmball
Framed Profile
Deilig er den arabiske himmel bla
Un Fingo Andalou
Libanera
Siv og aks paa gronne enge
L´estate giocosa - a piacere
Oriental Overture: The Source: of Christmas
Lett plukk fra Juleoratoriet
Ravel a le Bourdon de Noel
Alle bla de er glad i jul og bjelleklang
Tamboura Rasa
A Surrender Triptych
Paraphrasen uber die Zeit des Sommers
Blaklokkevikua
Suppressions
Atomic Symphony - 2
Atomic Symphony - 1
The Fall Of Babylon
Sourcecode
Julekveldsvisa
Reach Out / You Got The Love
Workin' On a Dream
We Are Legion
Soul Dreaming
Awaken
Clear to Me Now
Atomic Symphony - 7
Heave Ho
Hey Mom
Source