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Julian Lage Trio at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on November 10, 2017
Where
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227
When
Mon, February 19, 2018
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Julian Lage
guitar, electricAbout
OnModern 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 Lorefinds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut,Arclight. That album -- produced, likeModern Lore, by Lage's friend and collaborator, the singer-songwriter Jesse Harris -- was his first trio set on electric guitar and found Lage inspired by the sounds and the attitude of the freewheeling, pre-bebop jazz era, when, as he puts it, "country music and jazz and swing were in this weird wild-west period." This time he incorporates the sensibility, if not the outright sound, of early rock and roll, a similarly hybrid form driven by rhythm, personality and a passion for the electric guitar....