Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen (born 11 August 1973 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer.
He has composed and produced music for television, radio, audio books and advertising in a variety of genres.
[1] He has worked as a musician since the early 1990s, in a variety of contexts, based in Oslo, and also in Copenhagen.
[1] In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).
Jacobsen leads a quintet on his debut album Time Layers (2011), where he collaborates with Gunnar Halle (trumpet), Espen Eriksen (piano), Thommy Andersson (bass) and Knut Aalefjær (drums).