Sunna Gunnlaugs

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Sunna Gunnlaugs (* 11. May 1970 as Sunna Gunnlaugsdóttir ) is an Icelandic jazz pianist and - composer , who lived in the United States by 2011.

Live and act

Gunnlaugs grew up on the Seltjarnarnes peninsula , where she took home organ lessons and played pop and popular music . She got to know modern jazz through an album by Bill Evans . She had a show on Icelandic radio called Jazz Gallery New York. In 1993 she went to the USA, where she studied at William Paterson College . In 1996 she moved to Brooklyn , where she recorded her debut album Far Far Away with her trio, which then included bassist Dan Fabricatore and drummer Scott McLemore , her future husband. In the next few years she expanded her band to a quartet with Tony Malaby , who recorded the two albums Mindful and Songs from Iceland in 1999 . She later toured with Ohad Talmor , with whom she recorded the album Live in Europe in Prague , which sold well in North America. The album The Dream (with saxophonist Loren Stillman , with whom she also toured Europe) even reached number 2 on the jazz album charts in Canada. The follow-up CD Long Pair Bond also received very good reviews.

Discographic notes

  • Mindfull (with Tony Malaby, Drew Gress , Scott McLemore 1999)
  • Vagra Feröld (with Kristjana Stefánsdóttir, Sigurdur Flosason, Drew Gress, Scott McLemore, 2002)
  • Destilled (with Thorgrimur Jónsson, Scott McLemore, 2013)
  • Cielito Lindo (with Thorgrimur Jónsson, Scott McLemore, 2015)
  • Unspoken (with Maarten Ornstein, 2016)
  • Ancestry (2020), with Verneri Pohjola

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personal data
SURNAME Sunna Gunnlaugs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sunna Gunnlaugsdóttir (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1970