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Julian Lage (born December 25, 1987 ) is an American jazz guitarist .

biography

Lage grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area , began performing in public as a child prodigy at the age of six, and two years later played with u. a. with Carlos Santana in 1996 he was portrayed in the documentary Jules at Eight . When he was 15, he held a jazz workshop at Stanford University . After training at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he studied at Sonoma State University , Ali Akbar College of Music and Berklee College of Music in Boston . Since then, Lage has performed with artists such as Pat Metheny , Herbie Hancock , Christian McBride , Kenny Werner , Toots Thielemans , Martin Taylor , Béla Fleck , Eric Harland , Frank Vignola and Taylor Eigsti . In 1999 he worked in a duo with the bluegrass musician David Grisman on his album Dawg Duos and in 2000 he carried a cover version of In a Sentimental Mood (with Martin Taylor and David Grisman) for the compilation Acoustic Disc: 100% Handmade Music, Vol. at.

Lage has also given concerts at numerous jazz festivals such as Monterey , Montreux and the North Sea Jazz Festival . When he was thirteen, he appeared at the Grammy Awards ceremony . Gary Burton recorded the albums Generations and Next Generations with him as a soloist in 2004/05 . In 2009 his debut album Sounding Point was released on EmArcy Records , which was nominated for a Grammy in 2010 for "Best Contemporary Jazz Album". The album Gladwell (Emarcy) was released in 2011, Arclight ( Mack Avenue Records ) in 2016 ; In 2017 he presented the duo album Mount Royal with Chris Eldridge , followed by Modern Lore (Mack Avenue, 2018). He has lived in New York City since October 2010.

According to Michael G. Nastos, his open acoustic guitar playing is based on models such as Ralph Towner or Jim Hall ; He also integrated elements of European classical music as well as flamenco. In the foreground of his style are the melodic aspects, which occasionally also contain pure improvisation. In 2019, Lage received a Grammy nomination in the category of best improvised jazz solo for “Tomorrow Is the Question”, a track from the Love Hurts album .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julian Lage at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Jules at Eight. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Stanford Jazz
  4. ↑ a b Review of the album Sounding Point by Michael G. Nastos on Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ 2020 Grammy Nominations Announced in JazzTimes
personal data
SURNAME Location, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1987