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Scott McLemore

Born: February 1, 1973

Scott McLemore (b. Feb. 1, 1973 Norfolk, VA) is a drummer based in Reykjavik, Iceland. He began playing music professionally at age 16 with a rock band in high school and joined the rock/funk band Ant Man Bee in 1990 with which he recorded an album and toured the east coast playing the college circuit.

McLemore attended the University of Virginia's Writers Workshop in 1990 where he met trumpeter John D'earth.

He attended Old Dominion University 1992-93 where he studied with John Toomey and also studied drums privately with Howard Curtis. He started performing with Toomey and bassist Jimmy Masters around the same time.

Sunna Gunnlaugs: A Merry Old Time

by Ian Patterson
July 12, 2026

From the kinetic hurly burly of New York to the dramatic landscape and wide-open spaces of volcanic Iceland. Both environments have informed the music of Icelandic pianist-composer Sunna Gunnlaugs. Twelve years in New York, saw her play and record with some of the city's finest jazz musicians, including drummer Scott McLemore, her husband, and closest musical ...

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Go Round Merry

by Ian Patterson
July 12, 2026

The title of Icelandic pianist-composer Sunna Gunnlaugs' 15th album as leader is a manifesto of sorts--a call to embrace the moment and savor life's simple pleasures as we go about our business. Gunnlaugs has always shown a penchant for memorable melodies, and this album--her sixth with her longstanding trio partners, bassist Þorgrímur Jónsson and drummer Scott ...

Go Round Merry

By Sunna Gunnlaugs

Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; In Peace; Go Round Merry; Why is?; Be Like Charlie; Late Night Radio; Bobo's Boogie; Minor Delay; The Way Beyond; Mistur.

Joel Ross with John Toomey Trio at the Attucks Jazz Club

by Mark Robbins
November 14, 2025

Joel Ross is a man of few words. Actually, he was a man of no words until the end of the first set when he told the sold-out audience that the group would be back after a break. Then no more words until the end of the second set when he thanked everyone for coming and ...

Julian Shore: Sharing Secrets Under The Rose

by Dean Nardi
August 4, 2025

Piano trios walk the thin line between exhibitionism and intimacy, and you can look no further than Bill Evans whose tones vibrated ever so slightly with the distant thrill of zeal. Despite insistent attempts to overlook its worthiness in contemporary jazz, the piano trio is alive and well, in good hands with pianists such as Kris ...

Suddenly Autumn

October 25, 2024

Album: Becoming
By Sunna Gunnlaugs
Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:39

Becoming

By Sunna Gunnlaugs

Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2023
Track listing: Becoming; Suddenly Autumn; Where the Winds and Waters Call; Sound of Summer; The Heart May Race; Make the Jump; Nicotune; Becoming (alternate take).

Scenes from the 2023 DC Jazz Festival

by Matt Hooke
September 7, 2023

An embassy may seem like an unusual place to kick off the 2023 DC Jazz Festival, but it made for a good indication of the international and collaborative atmosphere fostered by the annual event. The DC Jazz Festival opening night at the House of Sweden, the embassy for Sweden and Iceland, began with a ...

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Becoming

by Neil Duggan
June 20, 2023

Raised on a small peninsula in Iceland and later educated in New York City, Sunna Gunnlaugs, could easily have followed a different musical path if it hadn't been for the gift of a Bill Evans record in her teens. That gift set her on a path that has led to Becoming, the fifth album Gunnlaugs has ...