Gunnar Mossblad w/ Murphy's Place Orchestra

[MuzzHD]

Gunnar is related with me, and I'm Swedish.

[trmptmaster20]

I don't think any of you actually know what you're talking about. Gunnar is actually an extremely nice guy. He's not really De-motivating he just speaks what's on his mind. And as far as repeating phrases and licks all the time. That's jazz. It's how jazz is. There are all kinds of solo styles in jazz. ANYBODY that says something bad about him on here would get absolutely destroyed by him.

[bobsong7]

yea Gunnar! Sounds great!

[jazztenordotcom]

Gunnar's an intense guy, and it comes off as intimidating at first -- but I've never met a saxophonist more generous with his time or knowledge. We taught together at BLFAC way back when, and I learned a lot from him. A great player and a great cat, and I miss having the chance to work with him. He and the band sound fine here -- I wish I'd been at this performance!

[eet73]

You suck Gunner

[davidobrienii]

Hey, but if there's one thing Gunnar's good at, it's at being intimidating. lol

[drumbum7856]

Gunner is frickin amazing. I just spent a week with him at his jazz camp. I got hit in the head with a sax and he went into boy scout mode and fixed me up lol. He is awesome.

[jazzkenpo]

Here thought you might like a critics observation on Gunnar's "playing".

Curves

MPH Trio (2004)

By E.J. Iannelli comments Paulsen's solo has sense and feeling, but its vigor is undermined by Gunnar Mossblad's insistent wandering on the sax—playing for the sake of playing. Mossblad finally spins down to the point where he is repeating the same weary seven-note phrase, a permutation of the introductory bars.

[jazzkenpo]

Hey thanks, I was taught by Gunnar back in the late 80's at James Madison University. Still sounds the same, same old licks, same old tricks. Not such a great teacher, really just miserable and demotivating.

[eet73]

I'd agree. I don't think that he'd be much of a teacher. He's certainly not much of a musician.....

[davidobrienii]

Hey thanks. I was taught by Gunnar back in 2005 at Blue Lake. I couldn't remember what he sounded like. He's great teacher and musician though.