Results for "Sunna Gunnlaugs"

Take Five With Scott McLemore

by AAJ Staff
September 18, 2012

Meet Scott McLemore: Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1973, Scott McLemore spent over a decade in New York where he was equally at home playing in the trios of saxophonist Tony Malaby, guitarist Ben Monder, pianist Michael Kanan and George Colligan. Although he is best known for his work with Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs ...

New Album By An American Drummer In Iceland

September 7, 2012

Scott McLemore, the American drummer living in Iceland has a new album. Remote Location features a quintet of Icelandic musicians, including Sunna Gunnlaugs on piano, saxophonist Óskar Guðjónsson (known for his work with Mezzoforte, Søren Dahl Jeppesen and Skúli Sverrison), guitarist Andrés Thor and bassist Róbert Thórhallsson. The album is a collection of original music that ...

Pre-Release Deal For "Remote Location" By Scott Mclemore

August 5, 2012

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: Long Pair Bond

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2012

Ci sono situazioni ipercodificate, nelle quali è operazione rischiosa avventurarsi. Lo si può fare con spirito iconoclasta, con intento di ricerca o con volontà di aderire ad una tradizione. Il trio pianistico è una di queste e Sunna Gunnlaugs è consapevole del rischio che corre, nel far uscire Long Pair Bond, alla guida del trio che ...

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Keys For Traveling

by Dave Sumner
June 12, 2012

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 ...

Long Pair Bond

June 12, 2012

Album: Long Pair Bond
By Sunna Gunnlaugs
Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2012
Duration: 03:32

Charlottesville

Featuring the music of Sunna Gunnlaugs
Duration: 04:01
June 12, 2012

Jazzahead! 2012

by John Kelman
May 2, 2012

Jazzahead! 2012Bremen, GermanyApril 19-22, 2012 While folks around the world debate the future of jazz--and, for that matter, what exactly jazz is and even what it should be called--an annual trade show in Bremen, Germany, now in its fifth year, has managed to demonstrate that jazz as a brand may be facing ...

An Open Letter to Musicians: Lemme Hear It!

by Dave Sumner
March 20, 2012

This begins a series of posts intended to give artists, labels, and promoters some insight into how I use the internet to discover and purchase music and how that knowledge might be used to the benefit of the artists. I don't claim to be the prototypical music listener and buyer. I listen to, and ...

Take Five With Alan Blackman

by AAJ Staff
March 9, 2012

Meet Alan Blackman: Baltimore-based pianist and award-winning composer Alan Blackman and his ensembles have performed at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center, and many festivals and venues from San Francisco to New York. Recent performances have been with Donny McCaslin, Vardan Ovsepian, Ferenc Nemeth, Mike Pope, Warren Wolf, Tim Green, Alex Norris, and Sunna Gunnlaugs, ...