Sunna Gunnlaugs : Icelandic Jazz Pianist

Featured in Jazzthetik

ScottMcLemore — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:46:01 +0000

How awesome to be featured in the July/August issue of Jazzthetik Magazine in Germany! My efforts on Duolingo for German (945 day streak) give me a fighting chance of being able to read the article without running it through Google translate.

Album of the Week in Germany

ScottMcLemore — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:08:50 +0000

I just returned home from a tour in Germany and Italy to find that my latest album has been chosen as "Album of the Week" on WDR3 in Germany. How cool is that? They requested German translations of a few of the poems by Jón úr Vör, but I decided to translate all 7 into both German and English.

Listening Party!

ScottMcLemore — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:28:33 +0000

The new album is out for download (CDs and Vinyl LPs are on the way) but in the meantime… let's have a listening party! I'm taking advantage of a newish feature on Bandcamp so that we can all listen to the album together Saturday Nov. 23 at 4pm GMT. Marína Ósk (the singer) will be...

Featured in Italy's Jazz Musica

ScottMcLemore — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:23:46 +0000

It's quite an honor to be featured this month in one of the main jazz magazines in Italy, Jazz Musica.

Cover of Jazzthetik

ScottMcLemore — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:47:19 +0000

What a thrill to find myself on the cover of a magazine! Not just any magazine, but one of the biggest jazz magazines in Europe, Jazzthetik. The article is by the great Angela Ballhorn and features photos by Óli Már.

A Chat with Jazz at Lincoln Center

ScottMcLemore — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:27:19 +0000

It was an honor to be invited to chat with Seton Hawkins of Jazz at Lincoln Center about my new album, Becoming. You can watch a video of it here.

Becoming: The New Album

ScottMcLemore — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:50:56 +0000

My new album called Becoming will be released on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. It's available to pre-order for a special price on CD, LP and download. Reserve your copy here.

Momento on Spotify

ScottMcLemore — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:48:15 +0000

Gradually my back catalog will be showing up on streaming services like Spotify. This week my tune Momento debuted and it would be great if people could give it a play to make it more likely to get picked for playlists.

Amped in Amsterdam

ScottMcLemore — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:31:21 +0000

With the support of i-Portunus I was able to come to the Netherlands for a week of rehearsing, performing and recording with bass-clarinetist Maarten Ornstein and bassist Tony Overwater...

Visitors from Norway

ScottMcLemore — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:38:37 +0000

It's my pleasure to welcome Oddrún Lilja, who is actually Icelandic but lives in Norway. We're going to be playing together at the Reykjavík Jazz Festival on August 28 as well as...