Sunna Gunnlaugs : Icelandic Jazz Pianist
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I'm heading to the airport to pick up Maarten Ornstein, the saxophonist from Holland who will be performing a couple of duo concerts with me on the Reykjavik Jazz Festival this week. Maarten's influences contain a great blend of traditional and ethnic music and I'm looking forward to exploring some different music with him. We...
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The new album is officially released now, and it's already received some flattering reviews. Here are a few of my favorite quotes: “probably the brightest of all her releases to date." — Stephan Moore, JazzWrap “This could have been mistaken for not only an ECM record, but a very good ECM record." — S. Victor...
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After I released Long Pair Bond on 11/11/11, the obvious thing to do would be to release the follow-up trio album on 12/12/12, but we missed that date. It was too close to Christmas anyway. And since there is no 13/13/13 (thank goodness!), Distilled will be released on my wedding anniversary 7/19/13, and it is...
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Tomorrow, Sunday March 24th, my trio will be playing a Virtual House Concert as a part a 24 hour worldwide music fest to commemorate Tuberculosis Day. We go on at 16:30 GMT. This is pretty cool! We'll be playing in Iceland, the sound technicians are mixing from Italy and you'll be listening from wherever you...
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Brrr! We got clobbered with snow in Iceland today and I was hoping to escape it to warm, sunny Washington DC, but it's just as bad there now! Hopefully it won't interfere with our travels. We were so excited to get the call to be included on the Kennedy Center's Nordic Cool festival, and now...
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Toot, toot. My trio has been selected the Official Band of Reykjavik 2013! We are incredibly proud and appreciative of this recognition. We are working on a new album, heading over to the USA soon for some concerts and life is just dandy.
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Click here to read Part One 19 Eugene OR We served ourselves some lovely mix of avocado, berries and cacao nibs for breakfast. It beats "Awful" House. Tweeted out a call for a recommendations for the best coffee house in Eureka but with no reply defaulted to Starbucks. The old houses in Eureka are amazing....
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Hi everybody, Our tour of the US is going great. We've been so busy that we haven't had a moment to post updates but here are the 1st 3 days. 16 Berkeley CA Scott had forgotten his shoes in VA so the first order of business was to hunt down a Camper store and get...
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Things are crazy busy. I'm preparing like a maniac for our 2 week bi-coastal tour of the US and there are just not enough hours in the day. It is funny to think back to some of the hurdles we had to overcome in the past when touring. Like when the bass broke, or when...
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I just returned from Bremen where I attended the JazzAhead conference for the second time. Last year I almost canceled last minute then almost didn't get there because of a row of canceled flights. Well this time it was a smooth journey and it didn't hurt to have my trio with me. At first I...
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