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Author reminisces about a Jan 2020 performance at the Village Vanguard.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...of-julian-lage
(Paywall if you hit your monthly free article limit)
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06-18-2021 08:10 AM
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'Somewhere in John Cheever’s letters or maybe in his diaries or maybe just in his conversation, he remarked that writing was not a competitive sport.'
In the New Yorker's golden age, the fact checkers would not have allowed this sentence to pass. They would have asked Cheever.
Whitney Balliett would have lunched with Lage and written about that for The New Yorker.
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Thanks—and by way of deserving emphasis, Lage and this trio are the current Downbeat cover story.
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That was splendid. The LP with soap bars is it something new or have I missed something?
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Originally Posted by rhl-ferndale
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A moment indeed! There is also a nice article about him in the July 2021 edition of Guitar Player magazine that I read last night!
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Originally Posted by Flat
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
he is being recognized for his talent..good for him..good for us...
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Thanks for sharing. I guess Julian‘s reached a new peak in his career.
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
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Sorry. I don’t get the Julian Lage thing. A great technician, sure. A good jazz guitarist? I’m not hearing it. He’s got zero blues in his playing. And his tone is horrid. Different strokes.
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
But anyway, what’s horrid in his tone?
"Jazz is not a what, it is a how."
Bill Evans
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Originally Posted by citizenk74
On two songs from Squint he‘s playing his old Les Paul.
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^ from Saint Rose
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
If you don’t hear any blues... well...
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Yeah, that LP has been in some of his "from home" videos... IDK if he has recorded with it or played it live yet. These days it seems to be all Collings, his "new love".
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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Originally Posted by xavierbarcelo
well...blues light maybe. He is to say, Kenny Burrell what John Mayer is to Magic Sam or Muddy Waters when it comes to blues roots or blues based.
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Originally Posted by Doug B
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I'm glad that Julian is getting a lot of attention in all these magazines. But like others have said they aren't that interesting to read. Not much going on in there.
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Originally Posted by Doug B
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Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
I am not surprised that over the years he’s become “a thing”. As I recall he has gone through periods playing the Manzer archtop, a vintage acoustic L5, a Telecaster, and in recent years a Collings - I can’t recall if fully hollow or a semi. I prefer his archtop tone over his telecaster sound, but he could make a broomstick sound good.
AKA
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I’ve seen him live twice and he’s great
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Originally Posted by FourOnSix
Honestly, it was his videos from home that did it, during the pandemic. I have rarely seen someone "connected to the muse" as Julian seems to get. That whole stream-of-consciousness thing, to the point where he's actually entertaining himself, and having fun, and you can see it on his face. It's a pretty special thing.
KA PAF info please
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