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Snorre Kirk

Deeply rooted in the melodic, swinging jazz of the 1950s, drummer Snorre Kirk updates a soulful, classic jazz sound with modern arrangements. He emerged in the 2000s playing with Malene Mortensen and has established long-lasting creative relationships with musicians like Magnus Hjorth, Lasse Mørck, Kristen Korb, Sidsel Storm, and Jan Harbeck. Kirk's debut album, Blues Modernism (2012), was widely acclaimed and his follow-up, Europa (2014), led to appearances at prestigious festivals in Europe and the United States. After two more albums with his Europa group, Drummer & Composer (2017) and Beat (2018), he set up a new quartet with tenor saxophonist Stephen Riley for his next albums Tangerine Rhapsody (2019) and Going Up (2021). Kirk's seventh album as a leader, Top Dog, followed in 2022. Snorre Kirk was born in Norway in 1981, but moved to Denmark to study at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in 2004, graduating in 2009. He first made a name for himself as a sideman for singer Malene Mortensen, appearing on her albums Malene to All of You (2008) and Agony & Ecstasy (2009), and as a member of pianist Magnus Hjorth's trio, recording the albums Old New Borrowed Blue (2009), Gershwin with Strings (2011), and Blue Interval (2013). Hjorth would become Kirk's most important musical collaborator, appearing on all of his albums as a leader. Kirk's debut album, Blues Modernism, was released in 2012, featuring Hjorth along with bassist Lars Ekman, tenor saxophonist Jan Harbeck, and trumpeter Karl Olandersson. Danish jazz magazine Jazz Spezial named it album of the year, and Kirk was nominated for two Danish Jazz Awards. His second album, Europa, followed in 2014, featuring Hjorth and Harbeck as well as bassist Lasse Mørck, alto saxophonist Oilly Wallace, and cornetist Tobias Wiklund. Subsequently, Kirk and his group played at festivals like Rotterdam's North Sea Jazz Festival, Finland's Pori Jazz, and the Art of Swing Festival in Kansas City. Meanwhile, Kirk continued to build and maintain other musical relationships, recording albums with singers Sidsel Storm, Kristin Korb, and Anders Blichfeldt, saxophonist Fredrik Kronkvist, violinist Mads Tolling, and pianist Zier Romme Larsen. His next outing as a leader, Drummer & Composer, followed in 2017, bringing back Hjorth, Mørck, Harbeck, and Wiklund while adding alto saxophonist Klas Lindquist and trombonist Magnus Wiklund. Kirk's 2018 album Beat was recorded with the same group minus Wiklund. In 2019, Kirk put together a new, smaller band featuring Hjorth, bassist Anders Fjeldsted, and American saxophonist Stephen Riley. With this quartet, he recorded the albums Tangerine Rhapsody (2019) and Going Up (2021), with old bandmate Jan Harbeck filling in for Riley on a handful of tracks. For his seventh album as a leader, 2022's Top Dog, Kirk added guitarist Mads Kjølby Olesen (with whom he had already recorded back in 2009) and tenor/alto saxophonist Michael Blicher to the group.
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