Jørgen Munkeby

Jørgen Munkeby
Munkeby with Emperor at the Tons of Rock festival in Oslo (2025)
Munkeby with Emperor at the Tons of Rock festival in Oslo (2025)
Background information
Born (1980-09-03) 3 September 1980 (age 45)
Oslo, Norway
GenresJazz metal, rock, electronic rock, progressive metal
OccupationsMusician, songwriter, producer
InstrumentsTenor saxophone, flute, alto flute, guitar, bass clarinet, keyboards, vocals
LabelsJazzland, Rune Grammofon, Indie Recordings

Jørgen Munkeby (born 3 September 1980 in Oslo, Norway)[1] is a Norwegian jazz rock and heavy metal musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman in the band Shining and as a former member of Jaga Jazzist.[2][3]

Munkeby in Aarhus, Denmark (2018)

Career

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. Shining's style later evolved from traditional jazz into a heavier style influenced by progressive metal, extreme metal and industrial music, while keeping the jazz elements of their previous work. Munkeby has coined this genre as "Blackjazz", the same as the title of the band's fourth album. Munkeby is the sole consistent member of Shining.

Munkeby played flute, alto flute, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and keyboards in jazz band Jaga Jazzist from 1994–2002. 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 has also played in the bands Damp and Chrome Hill.

Since 2018, Munkeby has been the live keyboardist and backing vocalist for Emperor.

Munkeby has worked with several artists in multiple difference genres as a session musician. This has included Motorpsycho, Enslaved, Ihsahn, In Lingua Mortua, Bertine Zetlitz, Big Bang, Superfamily, Grand Island, Jim Stärk and Casualties of Cool.[2][4]

Discography (in selection)

Within Jaga Jazzist
Within Shining
With other projects

References

  1. ^ "Shining Biography" (in Norwegian). Rockipedia.no. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Jørgen Munkeby – Musiker og komponist" (in Norwegian). AkershusTeater.no.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ "Interview with Jørgen Munkeby of Shining (Nor)". StudioRock.ro.
  4. ^ "Sax And Violence: Jørgen Munkeby of Shining Interviewed". TheQuietus.com. 30 June 2010.
  5. ^ "Haunted Shores (Periphery) "Viscera" EP Announced / Teaser | the Circle Pit".
  6. ^ "Shining's Jørgen Munkeby and Chimp Spanner's Paul Ortiz Guest on Poetry in Telegrams Track "Breathing" | MetalSucks". MetalSucks. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Munkeby