Christian Jaksjø (born 18 December 1973 in

Oslo, Norway Oslo ( or ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of towns and cities in Norway, most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a Counties of Norway, county and a Municipalities of Norway, municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a populat ...

) is a Norwegian jazz musician (

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and

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) and composer, mostly

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where he since 1999 has been part of

Bob Brookmeyer Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz valve trombone, valve trombonist, Jazz piano, pianist, arranger, and composer. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public ...

«New Art Orchestra» releasing the album ''New Works'' (1999, this years jazz album in

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Biography

Jaksjø was recipient of the soloist award at the

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festival in

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1992. He studied music on the jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1992–96) where was the leader of Kjellerbandet for a period. He later studied composition at the

Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: ''Norges musikkhøgskole'', NMH) is a university-level music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the ...

(1996–99) and composed music for the Danmarks Radio Storband. Jaksjø has also appeared nationally, as in Magni Wentzel Sextet,

Søyr Søyr (established 1976 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian musical group, led from the start of trumpeter Torgrim Sollid. Biography Søyr was initially inspired by folk music from Stor-Elvdal Municipality (among others Ole Mørk Sandvik) ...

, Geir Lysne Listening ensemble, Oslo Groove Company. He is a teacher of trombone at the Norwegian Academy of Music, as well as a composer in the 'Ny Musikk' group (2006).

Discography

;With Oslo Groove Company *

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

: ''Anno 1992'' (Groove] * 1996 in music, 1996: ''Live anno 1996'' (Groove) ;With Jens Wendelboe *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

: ''Strolling With The Groove'' (Rosa) ;Ansgar Striepens/Ed Partyka *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

: ''Tunnel Vision - Music for Jazz Orchestra'' (Mons) *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

: ''Dreams and Realities'' (Laika) ;With La Descarga *1998: ''Descongelate'' (Chicken Farm) ;With Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

: ''New Works'' (Challenge) *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

: ''Madly Loving You'' (Challenge), with the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

: ''Get Well Soon'' (Challenge) ;With Geir Lysne Listening Ensemble *2000: ''Aurora Borealis'' (Groove) *2003: ''Korall'' (

ACT Music ACT is a German record label founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch. It is a division of ACT Music + Vision founded by Loch and Annette Humpe in 1988. ACT started as a pop music label but folded soon after it started. Loch turned it into a jazz labe ...

) ;With The Magni Wentzel Sextet *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

: ''Porgy & Bess'' (

Hot Club Records Hot Club Records is a jazz record label established 1982, by guitarist Jon Larsen in Oslo, Norway.Dregni, Michael (2008) ''Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing'', OUP USA, , p. 229 The label has released over 35 ...

) ;With

*2001: ''Alene Hjemme'' (

Curling Legs __NOTOC__ Curling Legs Productions A/S (established 1992 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian record label with a catalogue encompassing all styles of jazz and improvised music. It was started by Knut Værnes and Morten Halle to release their own m ...

) ;With Solveig Slettahjell Slow Motion Orchestra *2001: ''Live Fra Blå'' (Curling Legs) ;With Lackner Jazz Orchestra *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

: ''Awakening Marko'' (Double-Moon)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaksjo, Christian 20th-century Norwegian trombonists 21st-century Norwegian trombonists Norwegian jazz trombonists Norwegian male trombonists Norwegian jazz composers Norwegian male jazz composers Jazz musicians from Oslo 1973 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian male musicians 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Søyr members Geir Lysne Listening Ensemble members Oslo Groove Company members