Julian Lage
Last Show: Wednesday 17 th January 2018
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Julian Lage is of the "highest category of improvising musicians, those who can enact thoughts and impulses as they receive them." (New Yorker). The California-born, now New York–based guitarist has evolved from collaborator (with such giants as Gary Burton, Jim Hall, David Grisman, Béla Fleck, and Charles Lloyd) to band leader. On 'Modern Lore', Julian Lage’s second studio recording with his trio, the composer and guitarist focuses on the groove, building his melodies and solos around the work of the prodigious rhythm section of double bassist Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen. 'Modern Lore' finds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, 'Arclight'. UK’s Jazzwise describes Arclight as "... a bright light shone on very specific, finely wrought musical miniatures that unfold untold pleasures."