Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar was an Icelandic jazz and bebop music group.

The group consisted of singer-songwriter Björk Guðmundsdóttir (who was in the group The Sugarcubes at the time), pianist Guðmundur Ingólfsson, drummer Guðmundur Steingrímsson (known as “Papa Jazz”) and Þórður Högnason on double bass.
The formation of the group occurred after Ingólfsson and Björk performed together in 1987 at the Borg Hotel in Reykjavík.

The group had a single release in the late 1990s entitled Gling-Gló, which came out through Smekkleysa in Iceland and later through One Little Indian in the UK.
The album was recorded live in just two days and consisted of Icelandic jazz numbers and three covers: Leiber and Stoller's “Ruby Baby” and jazz standards “I Can't Help Loving that Man” (Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern) and “Þad Sést Ekki Sætari Mey” (Icelandic version of "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun"), adapted by Irving Berlin.

The album went platinum in Iceland and there were later some informal live recordings as the group went through various performances, but in 1992, Guðmundur Ingolfsson died of cancer and the band disbanded.

Later, Björk would return the same year to record the last album with the Sugarcubes: Stick Around For Joy, and from 1993 she began her solo career.

Discography

• 1990 - Gling-Gló (Smekkleysa/One Little Indian)

MP3 samples from the album Gling-Gló

• “Luktar Gvendur”
• “Ég Veit Ei Hvað Skal Segja”
• “Ruby Baby”

MP3 samples of band performances

• “Misty”
• “Cry Me A River”