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Sunna Gunnlaugs: The Dream
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da parecchi anni il jazz europeo in generale è riconosciuto in tutto il mondo per il suo valore indiscusso ed è indubbio che la scena jazzistica scandinava ha avuto una fondamentale importanza nella crescita del movimento. Andando ancora più a nord, esattamente in Islanda, scopriamo un talento formidabile, la pianista Sunna Gunnlaugs. Se da un lato sono chiare le sue passioni per Bill Evans e Keith Jarrett, oltre che Bobo Stenson e Jon Balke, alcuni hanno paragonato la sua musica ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Sunna Gunnlaugs
by AAJ Staff
Meet Sunna Gunnlaugs: Ex-Brooklyn patriot, born in Iceland, jazz pianist and composer Sunna Gunnlaugs has released five CDs and performed in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US, combining the elegance of the European approach with a New York attitude.Instrument(s): PianoTeachers and/or influences? When I lived in New York I was very influenced by all the music around me and especially the fact that everyone was writing their own. I think ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Sunna Gunnlaugs
by AAJ Staff
Meet Sunna Gunnlaugs:Ex-Brooklyn patriot, born in Iceland, jazz pianist and composer Sunna Gunnlaugs has released five CDs and performed in Europe, Japan, Canada and the US, combining the elegance of the European approach with a fiery New York attitude.Instrument(s):Piano.When were you happiest?I remember feeling really happy for quite some time after my first daughter was born in 2005.What is your greatest fear?The idea of losing my ...
Continue ReadingSunna Gunnlaugs Quartet: Live in Europe
by John Kelman
Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko explained, in a recent interview, how the term melancholy does not always have to mean sad; there can be an inherent optimism as well. Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, an ex-pat from Iceland who now makes her home in New York City, understands that all too well. She writes music that is tender and romantic, sometimes joyful, but often with just the slightest melancholic edge. That doesn't make her music oppressive or dark, however; amidst the conflicting emotions ...
Continue ReadingSunna Gunnlaugs: Fagra Verold
by Roger Crane
An Icelandic woman who leads her own group is not the most common thing in jazz, but pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs just may be the best jazz pianist you’ve never heard. As a child she played polkas and Beatles tunes on the organ in her homeland, but an encounter with an LP by pianist Bill Evans was, as she states, “the key that unlocked her creative spirit.” Although born in Iceland, she came to the United States to study music in ...
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