Julian Lage - Squint (2021)

Julian Lage
Squint
2021 - Blue Note Records: LC 00133 / 00602435521510
https://store.bluenote.com/products/julian-lage-squint
https://www.bluenote.com/guitar-virtuoso-julian-lage-to-release-his-blue-note-debut-squint-on-june-11/
https://www.julianlage.com/#squint-section



* Julian Lage : guitar
* Jorge Roeder : bass
* Dave King : drums

https://www.julianlage.com/
https://www.jorgeroeder.com/
https://www.daveking.net/

Recorded by Mark Goodell, assisted by Skyler Chuckry, at Sound Emporium,
Nashville, Tennessee (TN), USA, on August 15-19, 2020.

Reviews

By Steve Futterman
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/julian-lage-squint

Julian Lage’s lovely new release, “Squint,” makes the listener all the more
grateful for a giant of present-day jazz guitar—Bill Frisell. Frisell’s work
gave plectrists permission to economize their playing and let air into their
music; he also encouraged them to allow folk and country influences to seep
through. Lage, sounding little like Frisell, has incorporated the older guitar
avatar’s profound aesthetic into the marrow of his own style—particularly on
the album’s most lyrical and succinct tracks. Buoyed by the supple interplay of
the bassist Jorge Roeder and the drummer Dave King, a restrained Lage leans on
the finery of his tone and the virtues of his Americana-tinged melodies to stir
up action, but the title track and “Familiar Flower” are reminders that a
wizardly guitarist can only go so long before unleashing his digits.

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By Thom Jurek
https://www.allmusic.com/album/squint-mw0003498049

By Chris May
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/squint-julian-lage-blue-note-records

By John Bungey
https://londonjazznews.com/2021/06/11/julian-lage-squint/

By Ken Micallef
https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/julian-lage-squint-blue-note/

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/julian-lage-squint-album-review

By George W. Harris
https://www.jazzweekly.com/2021/07/julian-lage-squint/

Juhász Gábor (hu)
https://magyarjazz.hu/video/1101-julian-lage-squint

Von Julius Krämer (de)
https://www.gitarrebass.de/stories/die-platten-des-monats-blues-jazz-07/

Da Mario Calvitti (it)
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/squint-julian-lage-blue-note-records__27458

Par Jean-Pierre Goffin (fr)
https://www.jazzhalo.be/reviews/cdlpk7-reviews/j/julian-lage-trio-squint/