Love Hurts (Julian Lage Album)
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| Label (s) | Mack Avenue Records | |||
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CD |
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10 |
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43:34 |
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Julian Lage, Will Wakefield, Shannon Moore |
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The Loft, Chicago |
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Love Hurts is a jazz album by the guitarist Julian Lage . The recordings were made in Chicago on September 22nd and 23rd, 2018 and were released on February 22nd, 2019 on Mack Avenue Records .
background
Love Hurts was Lage's debut album as a producer and his first with Dave King (of The Bad Plus ) on drums and Jorge Roeder on bass. All but two of the tracks on the album are cover versions , with Lage telling Guitar World magazine "the whole idea was to make songs I love." Lage also said the songs were chosen because they all had a "feeling punch" and a shorter form, and were all written by American songwriters over the past 50 to 60 years.
The production came about alongside working with his regular trio of Jorge Roeder and drummer Eric Doob ; Lage called it a "special edition" of his trio; he said he wanted to "spend a weekend in the studio and do what we would otherwise never do." Another unusual aspect of the recording project is the instrument that Lage plays throughout the Chicago-made recording session, a Gretsch Duo Jet from the 1950s.
Track list
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- In Heaven ( Peter Ivers , David Lynch ) - 4:34
- Tomorrow Is the Question ( Ornette Coleman ) - 3:36
- The Windup ( Keith Jarrett ) - 4:03
- Love Hurts ( Boudleaux Bryant ) - 4:45
- In Circles (Julian Lage) - 4:30
- Encore (A) (Jarrett) - 4:44
- Lullaby (location) - 3:45
- Trudgin '( Jimmy Giuffre ) - 3:57
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You ( George Bassman , Ned Washington ) - 4:06
- Crying ( Roy Orbison , Joe Melson ) - 5:34
reception
"Tomorrow Is the Question", a track from the album, received a Grammy nomination in 2019 for the best improvised jazz solo category . The album received mostly benevolent reviews; Thom Jurek wrote in Allmusic , “Of all the records in Lage's catalog, Love Hurts sounds like it was the most fun. Again it is a complete pleasure for the listener. "
In All About Jazz , Chris Mosey wrote that Julian Lage was an incredibly talented acoustic guitarist. What he does best is to take up old pop numbers and transform them melancholy. His arrangement of the title track, a hit by the Everly Brothers in 1965, is quite impressive and his playing makes you forget the maudlin origins of the country number.
Regarding the way the album handles covers of pop and jazz tracks, Suzanne Lorge wrote on Down Beat : “On the surface, these [songs] may not have much in common. But the concise musicality and the clean work of Lage significantly contribute to overcoming aesthetic differences. His two originals ( In Circles and Lullaby ) are the most open pieces on the album. They cut out almost everything else and signal the guitarist's compositional intention: to build firmly rooted musical bridges, but to stand outside of time and genre. "
Bruce Lindsay said in his review in the Jazz Journal of the track list that Lage is equally familiar with jazz and Country / Americana numbers - and also with the more unusual ones. The album begins with “In Heaven”, written by the late Peter Ivers for David Lynch's film Eraserhead . Of the jazz cover versions, the author praises the funky rhythm on "Encore (A)" by Keith Jarrett , a film noir soundtrack arrangement of Jimmy Giuffres "Trudgin '" ("You can almost feel the rain, see the mysterious stranger waiting in the dark ”) and a sparkling interpretation of the Ornette Coleman melody“ Tomorrow Is the Question ”. However, it is an Americana track , "Love Hurts", which is the highlight of the album, with a nice, sparing interpretation of the number; all three players played subtly and cautiously.
Sebastian Scotney (London Jazz News) expressed reservations about the production: “I wonder if I'll be reading this review in 20 years and have to admit that I don't appreciate an album that will mark the beginning of a turning point in Lage's career White. But for now I'm going back to Modern Lore and the more adventurous work that situation does with his normal, unadulterated joy in Nels Cline 4 with Tom Rainey , which I found far more convincing and authentic than this album. "
In an extensive interview with Lage for JazzTimes , guitarist and critic James Rotondi wrote that the Love Hurts material reflected Lage's interest in finding individual vehicles with which to express an overall vision.
Web links
- Michael Davis: Julian Lage Explores Numerous Musical Contours on 'Love Hurts'. No Depression, February 21, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Bienstock: Jazz Master Julian Lage Guides You Through His New Album, 'Love Hurts'. Guitar World, July 31, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ^ A b c Sebastian Scotney: Review: Julian Lage Trio. March 25, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Julian Lage: Love Hurts at Discogs
- ↑ 2020 Grammy Nominations Announced in JazzTimes
- ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed December 30, 2019.
- ↑ Chris Mosey: Julian Location: Love Hurts. All About Jazz, February 14, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Suzanne Lorge: Julian location: Love Hurts. In: Down Beat . April 1, 2019, accessed on December 30, 2019 (English): "On the surface, these all might not have much to communicate to each other. But Lage's incisive musicality and clean fretwork go a long way to bridging aesthetic divides. His two originals (“In Circles” and “Lullaby”) are the most inclusive selections on the recording, borrowing from nearly everything else and signaling the guitarist's compositional intent: to build musical bridges firmly rooted in place, but standing outside of time and genre . "
- ↑ Bruce Lindsay: Julian Lage: Love Hurts. Jazz Journal, April 29, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ For Julian Lage, Love Hurts and Music Heals. JazzTimes, July 15, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019 .