Julian Lage: Love Hurts

Modern Jazz / Indie Jazz
premiera polska: 2019-03-11
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Urodzony w 1987 roku nowojorski gitarzysta Julian Lage już jako 16-latek pojawił się w składzie Kwartetu Gary'ego Burtona zastępując samego Pata Metheny. Dziś jako jeden z najciekawszych gitarzystów jazzowych młodego pokolenia ostatnich lat, ma na swoim koncie kilka autorskich płyt i udział w wielu konstelacjach z udziałem wielkich gwiazd. Rok 2014 przyniósł wyśmienity album "Room" nagrany przez Lage'a w gitarowym duecie z poznanym dzięki Jimowi Hallowi Nelsem Cline, a dwa lata później doczekaliśmy się płyty "Arclight", nagranej w konwencji tria z basistą Scottem Collleyem i perkusistą Kennym Wollesenem. W takim samym składzie zrealizowany został też kolejny album "Modern Lore" (2018).

Love Hurts" Julian Lage nagrał w ciągu dwóch dni w Chicago ze swym nowym trio współtworzonym z kontrabasistą Jorge Roederem i znanym z formacji The Bad Plus perkusistą Davem Kingiem. Płytę wypełnia 10 utworów, pośród obok autorskich kompozycji gitarzysty znajdziemy też jego własne aranżacje utworów m.in. Ornette Colemana ("Tomorrow Is The Question"), Keitha Jarretta ("The Windup" i "Encore (A)"), ale też ...Roya Orbisona ("Crying") i The Everly Brothers (utwór tytułowy, w latach 70-tych spopularyzowany przez grupę Nazareth).

"Love Hurts" to dla Juliana Lage'a, konsekwentny krok naprzód w obranym przed kilku laty kierunku. Fuzję swej wirtuozowskiej precyzji i spontanicznej ekspresji łączy z elementami fusion i wyzwoloną jamową improwizacją. To jednocześnie płyta, na której 31-letni gitarzysta odsłania swe możliwości w zakresie przełożenia na swój muzyczny język nie tylko jazzowych standardów, ale też przebojów pop i rocka.
autor: Robert Ratajczak

Editor's Info:
Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation, Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility. Love Hurts – which marks Lage’s third Mack Avenue LP recorded with a trio and his first to feature bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus) – sees the GRAMMY® Award-nominated guitarist exploring the American song catalog from a truly unique vantage point, performing music written by a range of audacious and original artists, from Roy Orbison to Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Giuffre to David Lynch.

Progressive yet somehow timeless, Love Hurts reveals new facets of Lage’s approach while truly demonstrating his avowed belief in simple human interaction and spontaneous creative communication. As he has throughout his already remarkable career, Julian Lage has once more built a musical bridge all his own, linking tradition and history with the characteristically American spirit of invention and adventure.

Julian Lage
Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation, Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility. Though only 30, the New York-based musician boasts a long, prolific resume as sideman (alongside such icons as Gary Burton and John Zorn), duo partner (with Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch, among others), and as soloist and bandleader. Love Hurts – which marks Lage’s third Mack Avenue LP recorded with a trio and his first to feature bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus) – sees the GRAMMY® Award-nominated guitarist exploring the American song catalog from a truly unique vantage point, performing music written by a range of audacious and original artists, from Roy Orbison to Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Giuffre to David Lynch. Lage and his rhythm section build upon the wandering sonic outlook of his previous LPs, further impelling his own defining amalgam of jazz fusion and jam band liberation, standards and soundtracks, cowboy music and embryonic rock ‘n’ roll, all shot through with virtuosic precision, adventurous improvisation and a remarkably clear vision.

All About Jazz * * * *:
Julian Lage is a tremendously talented acoustic guitarist and by all accounts a polite, mild mannered kind of guy. Though this might not be the whole story. The cover picture of his album is of twenty used matches, which is thought to refer to his worries of becoming burnt-out after being hailed as a child prodigy then burdened with the lofty expectations of his admirers.

Lage was an accomplished blues guitarist when featured in the Oscar-nominated film documentary Jules at Eight. A year later, at nine, he was invited on stage to trade licks with Carlos Santana. Then, into his teens, he performed with, in turn, virtuoso banjo player Bela Fleck, bluegrass flat and finger picking ace Doc Watson and jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton. Now in his 30s, he no longer feels the need for such demonstrations of virtuosity.

Lage, based in New York, told Rolling Stone magazine: "I remember very vividly being a kid and people saying, 'You're so good for being such a young age.' I'd say, 'Thank you,' but I'd be thinking, I want to be good for any age. That was always my goal."
He kicks off with the melancholy "In Heaven," by Peter Scott Ivers, a harmonica player, songwriter and television personality murdered in 1983 at the age of 37. Ivers' killer has never been brought to justice. There's some microphone distortion on this track early on, but it doesn't get in the way that much and the rest of the album is fine.

Next up is a dazzlingly fast treatment of the title track of Ornette Coleman's 1959 album, "Tomorrow Is The Question." Then Lage stays with jazz for Keith Jarrett's "The Windup," a second Jarrett number, "Encore (A)" and a lesser known piece by Jimmy Giuffre, "Trudgin'"

But what he does best is to revisit and transform melancholy old pop numbers. His arrangement of the title track, an Everly Brothers' hit from 1965, is quite stunning and his playing of it makes you forget the number's lachrymose country origins.

Better still is the old Tommy Dorsey hit, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You." On this, Lage abandons any consideration of what might or might not be expected of him and takes it along nice and slowly, exploring the beautiful old melody to the full.

He quietly exits with another sensitive treatment of a pop weepy, Roy Orbison's "Crying," from 1962.
by Chris Mosey

muzycy:
Julian Lage - Guitar
Dave King - Drums
Jorge Roeder - Double bass

utwory:
1. In Heaven 4:36
2. Tomorrow Is The Question 3:37
3. The Windup 4:03
4. Love Hurts 4:45
5. In Circles 4:30
6. Encore (A) 4:44
7. Lullaby 3:45
8. Trudgin' 3:57
9. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You 4:06
10. Crying 5:34

wydano: 2019-02
more info: www.mackavenue.com