Julian Lage

Julian position (born 25 December 1987) is an American jazz guitarist.

Biography

Position grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, began as a child prodigy already appear publicly at age six and played two years later with ao with Carlos Santana 1997, he was portrayed Eight in the Oscar-nominated documentary Jules at; with 15 years, he held a jazz workshop at Stanford University. After training at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he studied at Sonoma State University, at the Ali Akbar College of Music and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since situation occurs with artists such as Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, Kenny Werner, Toots Thielemans, Martin Taylor, Béla Fleck, Eric Harland, Frank Vignola and Taylor Eigsti. In 1999, he appeared in a duet with bluegrass musician David Grisman with on his album Dawg Duos and contributed in 2000 a cover version of In a Sentimental Mood ( with Martin Taylor and David Grisman ) for compilation Acoustic Disc 100% Handmade Music, Vol V. with.

Position played in numerous jazz festivals such as the Monterey, Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festival. At thirteen, he appeared at the ceremony of Grammy Awards. Gary Burton took with him as soloist in 2004 /05 albums and Generations Next Generations on. In 2009 he released his debut album, Sounding Point on EmArcy Records, which was in 2010 for the Grammy for " Best Contemporary Jazz Album " nominated. 2011 appeared the album Gladwell ( Emarcy ). Since October 2010 he has lived in New York City.

According to Michael G. Nastos to be open -scale acoustic guitar oriented models such as Ralph Towner and Jim Hall; yet he also integral elements of European classical music as well as flamenco. In the foreground of his style are the melodic aspects; the occasional pure improvisation involves.