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Sunna Gunnlaugs Performing in VA, DC and NY
Icelandic pianist and ex-Brooklyn patriot Sunna Gunnlaugs has returned to the US to promote her latest album Songs from Iceland and prepare a new recording. On her latest CD, “Songs from Iceland" she re-imagines 5 Icelandic folk-songs for jazz quartet, adding new perspective to Time Out New York's statement that Gunnlaugs is “proof that jazz is ...
Icelandic Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs in VA. Beach, Sat. June 13th
This will be her only Tidewater appearance. The internationally acclaimed jazz pianist from Iceland Sunna Gunnlaugs will be joined by bassist Jimmy Masters and drummer Scott McLemore for a night of music from her recent release “Songs from Iceland" as well as new originals (to be recorded with her quartet in NY later this month). June ...
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 fiery New York attitude.Instrument(s):Piano.When were you happiest?I remember feeling really happy ...
Live in Europe
Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2004
Track listing: Asleep in the Grass; Shifting Seasons; Over Yonder; Smack 'Em; A Garden Someday; Upon Heaven's Blue Bow
Sunna 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 ...
Fagra Verold
Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1 Fra lidnu vori
2. Eg leyfi mer ad dreyma
3. Fagra verold
4. Sumar vid sjo
5. Margar naetur
6. Heim nu reikar hugurinn
7. Eg mun takast a vid heiminn
8. Lestin mikla
9. Skipaskagi
Sunna 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, ...
