JAN 18-21 | Resident Artistic Director: Julian Lage
Jan 18, 2024
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Resident Artistic Director Julian Lage begins his week with a solo recital, showcasing the breadth of his guitar mastery in the most revealing setting — one in which his peerless musicianship is presented without restrictions, undiluted and unadorned.
The evening harkens back to Lage’s landmark 2015 Modern Lore release World’s Fair, a solo guitar session of original compositions focused on the exploration of the song styles that shaped his own aesthetic, inspired by the work of a formative influence, classical guitar genius Andrés Segovia.
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 begins his week as Resident Artistic Director with a solo recital, showcasing the breadth of his guitar mastery in the most revealing setting.
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One of jazz’s breezier virtuosos, possessed of an unflappable technical facility and a seemingly boundless curiosity
The New York Times
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
Lage’s knowledge of harmony and his familiarity with the fretboard is so extravagant and capacious that he brings flourishes to this music that it simply hasn’t enjoyed before.
New Yorker
Personnel
Julian Lage guitar
Lage’s knowledge of harmony and his familiarity with the fretboard is so extravagant and capacious that he brings flourishes to this music that it simply hasn’t enjoyed before.
New Yorker
Watch & Listen
Julian Lage
Peru
Julian Lage
Day and Age
Julian Lage
Peru
Julian Lage
Day and Age
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