ABOUT SCOTT MCLEMORE

Scott McLemore (b. Feb. 1, 1973 Norfolk, VA) is a drummer based in Reykjavik, Iceland. He began playing music professionally at age 16 with a rock band in high school and joined the rock/funk band Ant Man Bee in 1990 with which he recorded an album and toured the east coast playing the college circuit.

McLemore attended the University of Virginia's Writers Workshop in 1990 where he met trumpeter John D'earth. McLemore has since performed countless times with D'earth in various groups and has also brought the trumpeter to New York to perform at the Knitting Factory.

He attended Old Dominion University 1992–93 where he studied with John Toomey and also studied drums privately with Howard Curtis. He started performing with Toomey and bassist Jimmy Masters around the same time, which was the real education.

In 1993 Scott transfered to William Paterson College and started playing jazz professionally in nearby New York City. It was at WPC that he met his future wife and long-time co-conspirator pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs. In 1997 he graduated from William Paterson College with a B.M. in Jazz Studies where he studied drums with John Riley, composition with Vic Juris and had various ensembles lead by Rufus Reid et al. While attending WPC he also toured the US with guitarist Tim Reynolds.

In 1997 he moved to Brooklyn, NY where he played with such talented musicians as: Ben Monder, Michael Kanan, Tony Malaby, Angelica Sanchez, Russ Lossing, Chris Cheek, George Colligan, Kerry Politzer, John Hebert, Mark Helias, Drew Gress and Tim Berne.

In 2005 he and Gunnlaugs moved to Iceland, where he quickly became part of the thriving jazz scene, but also began branching out to mainland Europe performing with musicians such as bassist Nicolas Moreaux and saxophonist Angelika Niescier.

His work as a leader has resulted in three albums: „Found Music“ with Tony Malaby, Ben Monder and Ben Street (released 2006) on Fresh Sound New Talent Records, „Remote Location“ with Sunna Gunnlaugs, Óskar Guðjónsson, Andrés Thor and Róbert Þórhallsson (released 2012) on Sunny Sky Records, and „The Multiverse“ with Hilmar Jensson, Pierre Perchaud and Mats Eilertsen (released 2018) on Sunny Sky Records.

ABOUT DAVID DORŮŽKA

David Dorůžka, guitar – born in 1980 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he took up the guitar at the age of ten and from the age of fourteen started performing with leading musicians on the Czech jazz scene. In 1995 he received the “Talent of the Year” award from the Czech Jazz Society. He played on award-winning recordings of Karel Růžička Jr. (You Know What I Mean, 1997) and Jaromír Honzák (Earth Life, featuring Jorge Rossy, 1998). From 1999 until 2002 Dorůžka lived in Boston in the USA and studied composition and improvisation at Berklee College of Music. Among his teachers were Joe Lovano, Mick Goodrick and George Garzone. Dorůžka was chosen by Pat Metheny to participate as the only guitarist in the Aspen Snowmass Jazz Colony in Colorado in summer 2000, where he studied with Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade and Herbie Hancock among others. In the summer 2002 Dorůžka took part in a tour with the “Swinging Europe” project led by British pianist and composer Django Bates. After graduating from Berklee, Dorůžka lived in New York City from 2002 to 2003. In New York he recorded his first CD Hidden Paths, which was awarded the Anděl prize in the Czech music academy awards as CD of the year 2004 in Jazz&Blues category. Since moving back to Europe at the end of 2003, Dorůžka has been performing mostly with his own trio and also working in a quartet with singer Josefine Lindstrand from Sweden. He can also be frequently heard as an accompanying musician with Divadlo Vizita, a Prague-based free-improvisation theatre. In addition to performing and composing, Dorůžka dedicates his time to pedagogical activities. In the past years he has taught at the Department of Higher Education at the Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek in Prague and since 2003 he has been a teacher at the annual Prague Jazz Summer Workshop. He has also given masterclasses and clinics in Czech Republic and abroad.