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New to YouTube today.
Julian Lage, joined by Dave King on drums and Scott Colley on bass, performs "Seven Come Eleven" at Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ in September 2022. In Julian's words: It was an absolute honor to perform “Seven Come Eleven” with this beautiful Gibson ES-250 owned by Charlie Christian. This has to be the coolest guitar ever… completely modern and historical at the same time. Charlie Christian played this guitar on “Solo Flight” and many other songs during his time with Benny Goodman. Thank you to Lynn Wheelwright and all of our friends at the Musical Instrument Museum for making this happen. Thank you to Scott Colley and Dave King for the gift of sharing this experience together.
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11-09-2022 07:22 PM
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awesome !
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Wonderful music on an iconic instrument!
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What an amazing talent!!
He even tuned up his low E string without missing a beat...or note...or anything!
I wish he'd break out archtops for his live performances more often.
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I think Julian Lage is the modern day Wes Montgomery.
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That drummer and bass player are great too! Thanks for posting!
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Wow... Watch at about 30 seconds in.
He has made a few happy faces, then
immediately changes to a pained face.
Stops! Holds right hand on the strings,
wipes his left hand onto his pants leg,
then wipes his face... then continues.
That is a guitarist overwhelmed with a tide of emotion.
I think the first tear dropped on his left hand fingers...
Notice he gave his head a big jerk/shake a few times.
A man has to do what a man has to do to keep going.
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The guitar sounds great. I knew about JLage and Scott Colley, but this was my introduction to Dave King. He sounded awesome. Of course, they all did.
Originally Posted by David B
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That's as good as it gets, for me. Charlie would be stunned and inspired, and Julian clearly has been stunned and inspired by Charlie and his guitar. Wow. Incredible playing. They should allow Julian to take that guitar down to Mintons, and summon up the ghost of Charlie to jam with him. That would be something.
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I watched it yersterday and loved it overall and of course the fact that it is CC's guitar is fascinating too.
But at the same time during Julian's intro I had some controversal feelings: on one hand he seemed to improve even further his chops and and expanded vocabulary (every time I think is it really possible to go further?))))
On the other hand I cannot stop thinking that musically it often seems that he has broad scope of tools, means, idioms but overall the choices sometimes seem 'non-obligatory' - I mean 'anything can follow anything' and for me it makes the feeling of loosing form, integrity, some kind of 'semantical tension'...
PS
Probably if I heard it during live gig I would not care about those details.
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I was having a similar reaction. I was thinking, "Wow, fantastic player, but I'm not enjoying this prelude or introduction or whatever." I have no room to knock anybody's playing, of course, but this was a performance that didn't really work for me until he actually got to the tune. Originally Posted by Jonah
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It is not clear if or how much he had access to the guitar before the performance. My interpretation of the "prelude or introduction or whatever" is that he was getting to know the guitar, testing its response to the boundaries of his own extraordinary playing ability. I agree that section might have had some "sound of the noodle" to it, but that was not really for us. He successfully inhibited playing the intro to Stairway To Heaven. How dare anyone here second guess what he did, how he did it, or why. I think that was just between him and this particular guitar - the unique opportunity of an exploratory kind of test drive (maybe like in the way that you would test drive a car by doing some things that you might never do in ordinary daily driving traffic).
The other side of the coin is that he might have had to accept that guitar without being allowed to modify it to suit him much other than a new set of strings. The "prelude or introduction or whatever" may well have served as a warm-up and accommodation period for his hands. Or maybe he just wanted to cherish some time playing the damn thing for the brief time he had it in his hands. During the "prelude or introduction or whatever" he may well have been riding a personal "life moment" of oblivious ecstasy. Maybe he needed some time to come down before he was ready to engage the band and play a tune.
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I thought it was cool. Julian being Julian...he's always come across to me as the guy who'd play any guitar with joy...maybe be unable to contain himself from playing it...
I took the intro as him settling into a creative state. You can hear him play a note that's buzzing a few times...he plays it again, as if to acknowledge it, and to get it in his ears as a "ok, I need to be conscious of this" sort of thing.
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He clearly hadn’t touched the guitar before, so was just getting to know it, just like the doodling we do in a guitar store - except nothing like the doodling we do anywhere, anyhow, except maybe in our dreams.
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He was obviously possessed by the guitar. I suggest we hold an exorcism as soon as the Deacon can get it approved by the Vatican.
That is no ordinary guitar- it was once POSSESSED by Charlie CHRISTIAN.
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I thought it was interesting to hear him poking around in the intro. Noticed that buzz too. I liked him going back to it as if to say "did that really just happen? Can I do something with that?"
Just listened again. What I hear is an open mind, and I applaud his bravery and ability to do it in front of an audience.
Master noodler!
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I want to see where he is in 10 years..
Give him a old cigar box..some rubber bands and a broom stick and he WILL play the hell out of it
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Agreed. Even so, I'm reminded of this story about Stan Getz: Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
After a set a fan came up and said, "Mr. Getz, your saxophone sounded wonderful!"
Getz put his horn in her hands and said, "How does it sound now?"
It's a joy to hear Mr. King explore a more nuanced side of his music than he sometimes gets to with his regular gig: Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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Truly enjoyable and entertaining. Always delighted by Julian's style and playing....A rare player with a joyful smiling expression whenever and whatever he plays. An almost childlike innocence at having accomplished the task he set for himself.
Rob's assessment is spot on and I wish I'll be at that music store when he's trying a new axe.
Thx for posting
Dave King has been a regular JL man
S
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J.Lage played what he wanted to play.Obviously too difficult for some.Who cares?
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Great performance and beautiful guitar!
If you haven't been to the MIM in Phoenix, you must make time to go ASAP. It is a wonder. George Benson lives mainly in Phoenix these days, I think, and has performed there a lot in the past.
For another look at that guitar, in the hands of another legend:
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I'm surprised how bright it is going into that EH-150. It does not sound like the CC tone we have heard on recordings... just goes to show chasing THAT tone has alot to do with the inferior recording methods/gear at the time!
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Well the pickup is certainly a primitive design. Surprising that it sounds as good as it does. Originally Posted by ruger9
One wonders if we are conditioned to a “jazz guitar sound” based on retro pickup, amp and recording technology. Now with all our sophisticated tech we try to recreate those old “crude” sounds.
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I've heard the exact same story several times, but it was always about Chet Atkins placing his guitar back on a stand. Originally Posted by Sam Sherry
I wonder if Chet got that line from Stan? Or vice-versa? Or maybe both versions are apocryphal? No matter. Back to Julian...
This is an interesting long interview that Josh Smith did with Julian. (He's got another great interview with Tim Lerch. I never knew Tim spent 12 years in a zen monastery...)
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Carol Kaye in her memoir says she witnessed Barney Kessel say this to a fan at the Casino outside San Jose (Studio Musician, Carol Kaye, 60s No. 1 hit bassist, guitarist, 2016, p499). Kessel was also credited with the response in Bill Crow's Jazz Anecdotes (2005, p220). But elsewhere, it is always Chet Atkins. Originally Posted by Flat
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