Julian Lage Group: Gladwell – review

(Emarcy)Vibraphonist Gary Burton's latest guitar discovery, Julian Lage, has made an attractive follow-up to his Grammy-nominated debut, Sounding Point. Burton discovered Pat Metheny even younger than he did the twentysomething Lage, and his opinion of guitarists is always worth checking out. Lage doesn't follow a straight jazz road any more than a comparably open but equally American guitarist such as Bill Frisell does, and the newcomer's band – with cello, percussion, bass and the leisurely ...

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