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Julian Lage
Julian Lage (/lɑːʒ/ LAHZH; born December 25, 1987) is an
Julian Lage
American guitarist and composer.

Early life and career

Lage was born in Santa Rosa, California, and is the youngest of
five children.[2] His father, Mario, is a visual artist, and his
mother is of Jewish heritage (although he did not grow up in a
religious household).[2][3] A child prodigy, Lage was the
subject of the 1996 short documentary film Jules at Eight.[4]
At 12, he performed at the 2000 Grammy Awards. Three years
later, he became a faculty member of the Stanford Jazz
Workshop at Stanford University.[5] Classically trained at the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he has studied at
Sonoma State University and the Ali Akbar College of Music.
Julian Lage at the Monterey Jazz
He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2008.[6]
Festival, 2014
On March 24, 2009 EmArcy released his debut album Background information
Sounding Point to favorable reviews.[7][8] It was nominated for Born December 25, 1987
the 2010 Grammy Award Best Contemporary Jazz Album. His Santa Rosa,
second album, Gladwell, was released April 26, 2011, to California, U.S.
positive reviews.[9][10][11][12] His first solo acoustic album,
Genres Jazz
World's Fair, was released on March 2, 2015, and his fourth
Occupation(s) Musician,
album, Arclight, was released on March 11, 2016.
composer
In a 2016 interview promoting Arclight on the NPR program Instrument(s) Guitar
Fresh Air Lage revealed that around the time of the release of Labels EmArcy, Mack
World's Fair he struggled with focal dystonia, a neurological Avenue, Blue
disorder resulting from the repeated performance of tasks. The Note[1]
disorder caused spasms in his left arm and hand while trying
Spouse(s) Margaret Glaspy
to play the guitar. He believed that the condition was brought
on at age five from playing and gripping the neck of his guitar Website www.julianlage
too hard, because the guitar was bigger than he was. At the .com (http://www.jul
time, he believed that was what he needed to do to "sound ianlage.com)
official... and [not] drop the guitar." He had to "re-learn how to
play the guitar in a way that... addressed these tendencies that got [him] in trouble in the first
place."[13]

He has worked in a trio with Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen and has recorded duo
albums with guitarists Chris Eldridge, Gyan Riley, and Nels Cline. For the 2017 guitar duo album

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Mount Royal, Lage and Eldridge received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary
Instrumental Album.[14]

He has taught at the New England Conservatory of Music.[15]

On March 17, 2021, it was announced that he signed to Blue Note Records. Along with the
announcement, it was announced that his debut release on the label entitled Squint would be
released on June 11. The lead single "Saint Rose" was released on that day as well.[1] April 9 saw the
release on the second single "Boo's Blues."[16]

View With a Room was released on September 16, 2022[17] The lead single "Auditorium" was
released on June 21.[18] "Word for Word", the second single, was released on July 13.[19] The third
single "Tributary" was released on August 10.[20] The fourth single, "Chavez" was released on
August 31.[21]

On November 14, 2023, Lage continued to prioritize acoustic-focused instrumentation with the
release of the single "Omission",[22] building on the style established on his EP The Layers, which
was released on March 17, 2023.[23]

Discography

As leader
▪ Sounding Point (EmArcy, 2009)
▪ Gladwell (EmArcy, 2011)
▪ Free Flying with Fred Hersch (Palmetto, 2013)
▪ Avalon with Chris Eldridge (Modern Lore, 2014)
▪ Room with Nels Cline (Mack Avenue, 2014)
▪ World's Fair (Modern Lore, 2015)
▪ Arclight (Mack Avenue, 2016)
▪ Live in Los Angeles (Mack Avenue, 2017) [24]
▪ Mount Royal with Chris Eldridge (Free Dirt, 2017) [25][26]
▪ Modern Lore (Mack Avenue, 2018)
▪ Love Hurts (Mack Avenue, 2019)
▪ Squint (Blue Note, 2021)
▪ View with a Room (Blue Note, 2022)
▪ The Layers EP (Blue Note, 2023)
▪ Speak to Me (Blue Note, 2024)[27]

As sideman
With Gary Burton

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▪ Generations (Concord Jazz, 2004)

▪ Next Generation (Concord Jazz, 2005)
▪ Common Ground (Mack Avenue, 2011)
▪ Guided Tour (Mack Avenue, 2013)
With John Zorn

▪ Midsummer Moons (Tzadik, 2017)

▪ Insurrection (Tzadik, 2018)
▪ Salem 1692 (Tzadik, 2018)
▪ The Book Beri'ah Vol.4 – Chesed (Tzadik, 2018)
▪ Nove Cantici Per Francesco D'Assisi (Tzadik, 2019)
▪ Virtue (Tzadik, 2020)
▪ Songs for Petra (Tzadik, 2020)
▪ Teresa De Ávila (Tzadik, 2021)
▪ Parables (Tzadik, 2021)
▪ New Masada Quartet (Tzadik, 2021)
▪ John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol.10 (Tzadik, 2022)
▪ A Garden Of Forking Paths (Tzadik, 2022)
▪ Incerto (Tzadik, 2022)
▪ New Masada Quartet Volume Two (Tzadik, 2023)
▪ Multiplicities II (Tzadik, 2023)
▪ Quatrain (Tzadik, 2023)
▪ Full Fathom Five (Tzadik, 2023)
▪ Homenaje A Remedios Varo (Tzadik, 2023)
With others

▪ Terri Lyne Carrington, More to Say (E1, 2009)

▪ Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note, 2016)
▪ Nels Cline, Currents, Constellations (Blue Note, 2018)
▪ Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic, 2016)
▪ Virgil Donati, Ruination (Gildon Music, 2019)
▪ Dave Douglas, Uplift Twelve Pieces for Positive Action (Greenleaf Music, 2018)
▪ Taylor Eigsti, Lucky to Be Me (Concord Jazz, 2006)
▪ David Grisman, Dawg Duos (Acoustic Disc, 1999)
▪ Eric Harland, Voyager: Live by Night (Space Time, 2011)
▪ Eric Harland, Vipassana (GSI, 2014)
▪ Jesse Harris, No Wrong No Right (Dangerbird, 2015)
▪ Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live from the Lobero) (Blue Note, 2020)
▪ Charles Lloyd, Trios: Sacred Thread (Blue Note, 2022)
▪ Sophie Milman, in the Moonlight (E1, 2011)

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▪ Yoko Ono, Take Me to the Land of Hell (Chimera Music, 2013)

▪ Dayna Stephens, Today Is Tomorrow (Criss Cross, 2012)
▪ Dayna Stephens, Peace (Sunnyside, 2014)

Awards and nominations

Year
Nominated
Event Award Result
Julian Lage awards and
work
nominations
Best
Sounding
2010 Contemporary Nominated Awards and nominations [show]
Point
Jazz Album
Grammy Award Wins Nominations
Awards Best
Contemporary Grammy
2018 Nominated 0 3
Mount Royal Instrumental Awards
(with Chris Album
Eldridge) Independent
Independent Best
2018 Music Instrumental Won Music 1 1
Awards Album Awards
Best
Grammy Contemporary
Totals[a]
2019 Modern Lore Nominated
Awards Instrumental Wins 1
Album
Nominations 4

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External links
▪ Official website (http://julianlage.com/)
▪ On Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (https://www.npr.org/2011/10/28/106230652/guitarist-julian
-lage-on-piano-jazz)

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