Julian Lage Trio feat./Bill Frisell

[ruger9]

Posted a month ago, just ran across it today...

[spencer096]

7 and change mins in and I don’t know how else really to say this…the balls it takes to try to pull this stuff off is incredible. I wish I had half the courage, let alone the ability…my goodness, he’s cooking. This is wild.

[Oscar67]

7 and change mins in and I don’t know how else really to say this…the balls it takes to try to pull this stuff off is incredible. I wish I had half the courage, let alone the ability…my goodness, he’s cooking. This is wild.

+1. I was looking for the right words but you beat me to it. The guy’s a living conduit between the divine and the guitar and just pulls stuff out of the ether. Sometimes it’s too atonal for me but he’s a genius. Very, very inspiring.

[spencer096]

18:45 is just preposterous.

[jazzloverfat]

but but but ...

[ruger9]

This may be the best live performance I've ever seen from Lage. He's in another world.

[Cunamara]

Bill and Julian bring out something neat in each other- a playful humorous quality that neither brings quite so forward as leaders. Bill plays with more groove and swing with Julian, less cloud-y and abstract. His playing here is more discrete and form-focused compared to his sets with Rudy Royston and Thomas Morgan, where they start playing and don't stop for an hour, drifting from song to song. At the same time, the segue from "Days Of Wine And Roses" to "Seven Come Eleven" had its impetus from Bill and is not something Julian usually does, at least when I've seen him. Julian can be really note-y and he pulls that back to phrase more economically with Bill.

Their duo set that you can find on YouTube was really remarkable.