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.
In 1998 Brække 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 & Øyvind Brække, performed in trondheim 2009 and released on album in 2011.
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
Within Trygve Seim 2000: Different Rivers (ECM Records) 2004: Sangam (ECM Records)
Within Crimetime Orchestra 2005: Life Is A Beautiful Monster (Jazzaway Records), feat. Bjørnar Andresen 2009: Atomic Symphony (Jazzaway Records), feat. Sonny Simmons & KORK
Within Mathilde Grooss Viddal, FriEnsemblet 2005: Holding Balance (Giraffa Records) 2009: Come Closer (Giraffa Records) 2012: Undergroove (Giraffa Records), with Mathilde Grooss Viddal & Friensemblet 2015: El Aaiun - across the Border (Giraffa Records), feat Safaa al Saadi 2017: Out of Silence (Giraffa Records), feat Naïssam Jalal and Mathilde Grooss Viddal
With other projects 1995: Monk Moods (Odin Records), with Knut Kristiansen 1995: Letters (Turn Left Prod.), with Håvard Lund 1999: History And Movement (Via Music), with Didrik Ingvaldsen & Pocket Corner 1999: Utopian Dances (Krusedull Prod.), with Jono el Grande 1999: Glow (Curling Legs), with Jacob Young 2001: Pöck (), within Dingobats 2001: Denne Lille Pytten Er Et Hav (), within Sverre Gjørvad 2002: Variasjoner (Vossajazz Records), with Erlend Skomsvoll live at Vossajazz 2002 2003: Heaven (ACT), with Christof Lauer & Norwegian Brass with Sondre Bratland, Rebekka Bakken & Geir Lysne 2003: In Concert (Curling Legs), within Come Shine, with The Norwegian Radio Orchestra 2005: Krissvit (Moserobie Records), with Torbjörn Zetterberg 2006: Denada (ACT), within Helge Sunde's Norske Store Orkester feat. Olga Konkova & Marilyn Mazur 2006: Holdin Balance (Giraffa), with Mathilde Grooss Viddal & Friensemblet 2007: Sudoku (Real Records), within Sharp Nine 2008: Fabatune (Curling Legs), with Lars Andreas Haug 2009: Come Closer (Giraffa), with Mathilde Grooss Viddal & Friensemblet 2009: Cycle of silence (ACT), with Frøy Aagre
References
External links Migrations – Øyvind Brække on Trondheim Jazz Orchestra website