JULIAN LAGE *live

In the organizer's words:

Julian Lage is one of the most outstanding jazz guitarists of his generation. He belongs, as the New Yorker writes, to the "highest category of improvising musicians" and has a perfect wunderkind biography. Julian Lage is so remarkable because he manages to sift through and musically process the countless currents of American music history from jazz, pop, country, bluegrass, acoustic folk and rock without giving frontal lessons. Everything is based on excellent technique, free association and improvisation. He sounds as authentic and genuine as if he were playing a spontaneous concert in the bar around the corner.

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, he began performing in public at the age of six and two years later was playing with Carlos Santana, among others. A documentary was even made about him, "Jules at Eight". He gave his first jazz workshop at Stanford University when he was 15. The musician, who now lives in New York, can look back on a long career characterized by collaborations with Gary Burton and John Zorn as well as duo projects with Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch, among others.