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Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer

Jørgen Munkeby INTERVIEW JORGEN MUNKEBY SHINING NOR PART ONE The Monolith

Born
  
3 September 1980 (age 36) Oslo, Norway (
1980-09-03
)

Genres
  
Jazz, rock, electronica, progressive metal

Instruments
  
Tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute, guitar, bass clarinet, keyboards, vocals

Labels
  
Jazzland, Rune Grammofon, Indie Recordings

Associated acts
  
Shining, Jaga Jazzist, Ihsahn

Education
  
Norwegian Academy of Music

Music groups
  
Shining, Jaga Jazzist (1995 – 2002), Damp

Albums
  
Blackjazz, International Blackjazz Society, A Livingroom Hush, Where the Ragged People Go

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Jørgen Munkeby (born 3 September 1980 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz and heavy metal musician, singer and songwriter, known as the frontman in the band Shining and former member of Jaga Jazzist.

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Career

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Munkeby formed Shining as a jazz quartet in 1999, together with fellow students from the Norwegian Academy of Music, Morten Qvenild, Torstein Lofthus and Aslak Hartberg. He played flute, alto flute, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and keyboards in jazz band Jaga Jazzist (1994–2002), where he was one of the main composers on the album A Livingroom Hush, which was named the best jazz album of 2002 by the BBC. He also plays in the bands "Damp" and "Chrome Hill", and worked with Motorpsycho, Enslaved, Ihsahn, In Lingua Mortua, Bertine Zetlitz, Big Bang, Superfamily, Grand Island and Jim Stärk among others.

Discography (in selection)

Within Jaga Jazzist
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  • 1996: Jævla Jazzist Grete Stitz (Thug Records)
  • 1998: Magazine EP (Dbut Records)
  • 2001: A Livingroom Hush (Warner Music Norway)
  • 2001: Airborne/Going Down EP (Warner Music Norway)
  • 2001: Going Down 12" (Smalltown Supersound)
  • 2002: The Stix (Smalltown Supersound / Warner Music Norway)
  • 2002: Days 12", (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Within Shining
    Jørgen Munkeby The Quietus Features 2010 A Glass Half Full Sax And Violence

  • 2001: Where The Ragged People Go (BP Records)
  • 2003: Sweet Shanghai Devil (Jazzland Records)
  • 2005: In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster (Rune Grammofon)
  • 2007: Grindstone (Rune Grammofon)
  • 2010: Blackjazz (Indie Recordings)
  • 2011: Live Blackjazz (Indie Recordings)
  • 2013: One One One (Universal Records)
  • 2015: International Blackjazz Society (Spinefarm Records)
  • With other projects
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  • 2002: In The Fishtank (Konkurrent), with Motorpsycho & "Jaga Jazzist Horns»
  • 2004: Little Things (Propeller Recordings), with Hanne Hukkelberg
  • 2010: After, with Ihsahn
  • 2012: Eremita, with Ihsahn
  • 2014: Inferno (Prosthetic Records), with Marty Friedman
  • 2015: "Viscera", with Haunted Shores
  • 2016: Arktis., with Ihsahn

  • Jørgen Munkeby Jrgen Munkeby jorgenmunkeby Twitter

    Songs

    Healter SkelterBlackjazz · 2010
    I Won't ForgetOne One One · 2013
    The One InsideOne One One · 2013

    References

    Jørgen Munkeby Wikipedia