JAN 18-21 | Resident Artistic Director: Julian Lage
Jan 21, 2024
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Lage’s final night of residency is a celebration of the late guitar legend Jim Hall, a lasting influence on and mentor to Lage, featuring an all-star quartet with deep ties to the 2004 NEA Jazz Master who passed away in 2013. The concert will also include SFJAZZ Collective Music Director and saxophone great Chris Potter.
The masterful rhythm section of veterans Scott Colley and Joey Baron performed widely in Hall’s trio during his last years, with Lage joining during a memorable week at New York’s Blue Note in 2012. Of Lage, Hall said, “Incredible player. Julian Lage is the new jazz guard.”
ABOUT JULIAN LAGE:
Transcending his prodigious beginnings — which include being the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary film Jules at Eight, a GRAMMY Awards performance at 13, and faculty status at the Stanford Jazz Workshop at 15 – Santa Rosa-born guitarist Julian Lage has emerged as a stunningly accomplished creative force in modern music. He demonstrated deep maturity and intellectual acuity from the start, joining vibraphone innovator Gary Burton’s star-making quartet in 2004 at age 16. Lage’s trajectory has been linear since then, embracing jazz, pop, country, bluegrass, and acoustic folk with equal élan. At just 35, he’s recorded 15 albums as a leader and lent his singular virtuosity to work with Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland, John Zorn, Terri Lyne Carrington, Fred Hersch, and Nels Cline.
Lage’s final night of residency is a celebration of his mentor, the late guitar legend Jim Hall, featuring an all-star quartet with special guest saxophonist Chris Potter.
Julian Lage is the new jazz guitar guard
Jim Hall
Julian Lage is the new jazz guitar guard
Jim Hall
Personnel
Julian Lage guitar
Chris Potter saxophones
Scott Colley bass
Joey Baron drums
One of jazz’s breezier virtuosos, possessed of an unflappable technical facility and a seemingly boundless curiosity
The New York Times
Personnel
Julian Lage guitar
Chris Potter saxophones
Scott Colley bass
Joey Baron drums
One of jazz’s breezier virtuosos, possessed of an unflappable technical facility and a seemingly boundless curiosity
The New York Times
Watch & Listen
Julian Lage
Supera
Julian Lage
harlem blues
Julian Lage
Supera
Julian Lage
harlem blues
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