As a young guitar prodigy, Julian Lage often went to gigs at the Bay Area jazz club Yoshi's. There he would sit up front, put his head on stage and watch admiringly. Backing his early heroes at ...

The groundbreaking Big Ears Festival doesn’t kick off for three more weeks, but Sunday, one of last year’s performers will give fans a sneak peek of what they might expect when the unique event takes ...

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Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. After spending a portion of 2017 on the road ...

Julian Lage’s career has been marked by a series of firsts, including the fact he is the only jazz guitar virtuoso who counts Yoko Ono, Bill Cosby, Wilco’s Nels Cline, cutting-edge composer John Zorn ...

Jazz guitarist Julian Lage had a life-altering experience in his youth, thanks to a veritable guitar hero. Now 30, Lage was just 8 when Carlos Santana jammed with the child prodigy. 'It was surreal ...

Through the years, he has continued to deliver. That sense of being not only supremely gifted but also having worked to achieve a level of musicianship which can at any moment take him in any ...

Modern Lore constitutes a measure of guitarist Julian Lage's grasp of the pragmatic values of a working musician. Adhering to the same three-piece unit with which he recorded his prior solo album, ...

Modern Lore fully captures the guitarist's trademark melding of fleet precision, open-road possibility and radiant self-assurance. Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released ...