Martin Taxt


Martin Taxt is a Norwegian jazz musician, known from a variety of jazz bands like Koboku Senjû, Microtub, Muringa, Music for a While and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

Career

Taxt is a graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music and the 'Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de Musique et de Danse à Paris'. During his studies he initiated the bands 'Florebius' and 'Silucian Town' among others including the jazz singer Lena Nymark. Taxt has since 2004 been tubaist in the quintet Music for a While. As studio musician he has worked with artists like Odd Nordstoga, Hanne Hukkelberg and Maria Mena.
He has collaborated with the Japanese contemporary musicians Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura in the quintet 'Koboku Senjû' since 2006. From 2006 he has drifted the festival 'Fri Resonance' in Trondheim together with Kim Myhr and Håvard Volden. Since February 2010 Taxt has managed the label Sofa together with Kim Myhr, Ivar Grydeland and Ingar Zach. He has also collaborated on stage with violinist Ola Kvernberg.

Discography

;With Nils Ostendorf
;With Tora Augestad's Music for a while including Mathias Eick, Stian Carstensen and Pål Hausken
;With Tetuzi Akiyama
;With the quintet 'Koboku Senjû'
;With Microtub
;With Kurt Liedwart and Andrey Popovskiy