Jazz Articles about Julian Lage

About Julian Lage

Album Review

Anyone who saw guitarist Julian Lage in concert with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen in 2015 will be equally surprised and delighted by Arclight. On his Mack Avenue label debut: Lage proves himself not just a student of his instrument--as if that needed further affirmation given his previous solo work and collaborations with vibraphonist Gary Burton and guitarist Nels Cline--but an exceedingly fast learner in the art of studio recording. No question he benefits from ample ...

Album Review

Julian Lage: Arclight

Read "Arclight" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
March 4, 2016

Julian Lage's star has been on the rise since the premiere of Julian at Eight--the award winning 1997 documentary short about the precocious guitar prodigy's childhood years. Since then, Lage has become a key collaborator to modern masters like Gary Burton, Jim Hall and Fred Hersch. Lage's widely acclaimed virtuosity is uncontestable, yet he remains a tonal traditionalist--an aspect reinforced on Arclight, the first recording to feature him exclusively playing a solid body electric guitar. Despite the overdriven twang of ...

Multiple Reviews

Uno sguardo alla chitarra nel jazz contemporaneo

by Mario Calvitti
January 25, 2016

La chitarra è ormai da decenni uno degli strumenti più popolari e diffusi nel jazz; tanti sono stati, e sono tuttora, gli interpreti di questo strumento, protagonisti di un suo progressivo affrancamento dalle iniziali convenzioni per arrivare a renderlo sempre più libero e trasversale, al servizio di una maggiore e completa espressività del musicista che lo adotta. Esaminiamo qui alcuni tra i più interessanti dischi in ambito chitarristico pubblicati negli ultimi mesi. In questo gruppo di lavori, ...

Album Review

Julian Lage: World's Fair

Read "World's Fair" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
July 19, 2015

Guitarist Julian Lage's chameleon-like abilities have covered many styles from jazz in ensembles with vibraphonist Gary Burton and drummer Eric Harland to avant-free expressions with guitarist Nels Cline in Room (Mack Avenue, 2014) and folksy bluegrass with Punch Brother's member Chris Eldridge in Avalon (Modern Lore, 2014). A phenomenal technician Lage is more importantly a player with pronounced tonality and delicate touch who exudes a plethora of moods from his instrument as displayed with his first solo release World's Fair. ...

Live Review

The Julian Lage Trio at Richmond Congregational Church

by Doug Collette
February 19, 2015

The Julian Lage Trio Congregational Church Richmond, Vermont February 15, 2015 Striding from the vestibule to the stage of this tiny house of worship, The Julian Lage Trio were afforded a hearty round of applause, which was just a precursor to further acclamation in the form of whoops and hollers that became increasingly frequent during the course of their single ninety-minute set. But a mutual admiration arose between performers and audience during the ...

Multiple Reviews

Julian Lage: Living Lage

by Dan Bilawsky
September 4, 2013

It's good to be Julian Lage. The former wunderkind is all grown up and living large, playing with some of the best musicians on the planet; that makes perfect sense, considering he's also one of them. The young guitarist has done his homework, paid his dues and earned his stripes, and now he's spreading his wings and flying high. In 2013 alone, Lage hit the road in duo settings with fellow guitarists, like Nels Cline and Chris ...

Album Review

Julian Lage: Gladwell

Read "Gladwell" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 8, 2011

Julian Lage è un giovane chitarrista che sin dalla più tenera età è stato segnalato come un predestinato delle sei corde. La storia della musica è piena di bambini prodigio che hanno stupito i loro contemporanei e Julian Lage sa confermare questa tradizione mantenendosi fresco ed interessante anche dopo aver raggiunto la maggiore età. Da alcuni anni è il chitarrista del gruppo di Gary Burton, uno che di chitarristi se ne intende, avendo avuto al suo fianco almeno una dozzina ...