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Lage Lund (* 1977 ) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist living in the United States .

Live and act

Lund grew up in Norway and started playing guitar when he was thirteen. He belonged to the band of the pianist / organist Steinar Nickelsen . After moving to the United States, he initially received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2002 , with which he studied at New York's Juilliard School . In 2005 he won the Thelonious Monk competition in guitar. In addition to his studies, he performed in New York jazz clubs such as 55 Bar , the Smalls and the Jazz Gallery , and made guest appearances at Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center . Lund played with Wynton Marsalis , Ingrid Jensen and Seamus Blake , on whose album Bellweather (2008) he participated. After a debut album, which he released in 2007 without a label, Lund released his second album Early Songs (2008) on the Criss Cross Jazz label . In 2010 the album Unlikely Stories followed , with the drummer Bill Stewart , bassist Ben Street and pianist Edward Simon . He also belonged to the band of Orlando le Fleming . Lund plays u. a. a Gibson "Byrdland" and an instrument by the German guitar maker Stefan Schottmüller. Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 he was the winner in the category "Guitar / Rising Star".

Discographic notes

  • Early Songs (Criss Cross, 2008)
  • Unlikely Stories (Criss Cross, 2010)
  • Live at Smalls (SmallsLive, 2012)
  • Foolhardy (Criss Cross, 2013)
  • Idlewild (Criss Cross, 2015)
  • Terrible Animals (Criss Cross, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait and interview at All About Jazz (accessed on July 28, 2010)
  2. ^ Francois van de Linde: Review Lage Lund: Terrible Animals , review in the Jazz Journal on July 19, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lund, location
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Norway