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Pre-Release Deal For "Remote Location" By Scott Mclemore
An American drummer living in Iceland, Scott McLemore has a new album. “Remote Location" features a quintet of Icelandic musicians, including Sunna Gunnlaugs on piano, Óskar Guðjónsson (known for his work with Mezzoforte and Skúli Sverrison), guitarist Andrés Thor and bassist Róbert Thórhallsson. The CD will be released on the Reykjavik Jazz Festival, August 28th, but ...
Sunna Gunnlaugs: Keys For Traveling
by Dave Sumner
Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs is back in the USA for a visit. Following on the heels of the critical success of 2011 release Long Pair Bond (Sunny Sky), Gunnlaugs will be touring from coast to coast beginning in Berkeley, California and hitting several cities along the way to a three-day grand finale in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She'll ...
Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond
by William Carey
Several songs on Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs' Long Pair Bond, including the ballad “Elsabella," are lilting and beautiful enough to have an almost hypnotic effect. The interplay between Gunnlaugs and bassist Þorgrímur Jónsson is clearly borne out of a great deal of time spent working together. Along with drummer Scott McLemore, who contributed three compositions to ...
Sunna Gunnlaugs: Long Pair Bond
by John Kelman
With Long Pair Bond, Sunna Gunnlaugs returns to the piano trio format last heard on Far Far Away. Since that 1997 self-titled debut--the only album to use her tongue-twisting full name, Gunnlaugsdóttir--the Icelandic pianist has, in addition to contracting her name to the eminently more memorable Gunnlaugs, recorded almost exclusively with quartets, largely populated with American ...
Take 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 ...
Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs releases new album at the London Jazz Festival
Icelandic jazz pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs is releasing a new trio album on November 12th at the London Jazz Festival. However, the digital release will be Nov. 11. That is, 11/11/11 at 11:11pm EST. It was just too good to resist. With her on the album is her long-time cohort Scott McLemore on drums and fellow Icelander ...
The Jazz Session #246: Scott McLemore
Drummer Scott McLemore and the ASA Trio just released a new album of the music of Thelonious Monk, a follow-up to last years daring take on Coltrane's A Love Supreme. In this interview, McLemore tells the story of how he ended up playing jazz in Iceland; talks about the ASA Trios chemistry and origins; and explains ...
New album: Icelandic organ trio plays Monk
On an island in the north Atlantic, there is an organ trio playing all kinds of music, and they are releasing a CD to share it with the world. Iceland-based ASA Trio's first studio album is Plays the Music of Thelonious Monk. The digital release is today, but CD's are available for pre-order which includes an ...
Sunna Gunnlaugs: Pay What You Want Summer Sale
The Icelandic jazz pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs has offered up all of her albums on a Pay-what-you-want basis until August 1st in a special two day summer sale. That means you can pay $0.00 or you can pay $?.?? It's all up to you. This includes her latest album The Dream featuring Loren Stillman, Eivind Opsvik and ...
