FEB 20-23 | RESIDENT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: JULIAN LAGE
Feb 23, 2025
Miner Auditorium
Lage's final night as Resident Artistic Director pairs him with the iconoclastic guitar genius Marc Ribot, who returns following his 70th Birthday celebration in September of 2024.
A singular instrumentalist, Ribot follows his muse wherever it leads, resulting in a career path that has ranged across free jazz and no wave, rock, film music, and Cuban rumba. Beyond his wildly eclectic output as a leader, which has veered from the rollicking Los Cubanos Postizos project and the avant-rock Ceramic Dog to a solo guitar score to Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 silent classic The Kid, Ribot is best known as a key collaborator with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, the Lounge Lizards, Diana Krall, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (contributing to their 2007 hit album Raising Sand).
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.
The highest category of improvising musicians
New Yorker on Julian Lage
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A genial, springlike virtuosity suffuses the playing of Julian Lage, a guitarist whose approach to jazz accommodates all manner of the rustic and the chamberesque
The New York Times on julian lage
A genial, springlike virtuosity suffuses the playing of Julian Lage, a guitarist whose approach to jazz accommodates all manner of the rustic and the chamberesque
The New York Times on julian lage
Personnel
Julian Lage guitar
Marc Ribot guitar
One of the most individual of guitarists and a master of introverted ironies.
The Village Voice on Marc Ribot
Personnel
Julian Lage guitar
Marc Ribot guitar
One of the most individual of guitarists and a master of introverted ironies.
The Village Voice on Marc Ribot
Watch & Listen
Julian Lage
Blues, Too (with Nels Cline)
Marc Ribot
The Kid
Julian Lage
Blues, Too (with Nels Cline)
Marc Ribot
The Kid