The Grammy Museum is thrilled to welcome Julian Lage to National Sawdust in Brooklyn for an evening discussing his latest album, Scenes From Above, his creative process, and more, with a special live performance. This event is part of the Grammy Museum’s New York City program series, which brings the Museum’s renowned education and public programs to the city. “A New York Evening With…” is generously supported by the Dawn and Brian Hoesterey Family Foundation.
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ABOUT JULIAN LAGE
Award-winning guitarist Julian Lage has been widely acclaimed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation. A child prodigy who began playing at the age of five and performing in public a year later, Lage was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated 1996 documentary film Jules at Eight. Since releasing his debut album in 2009, Lage has released a dozen solo albums including five as a leader for Blue Note Records, his most recent being Scenes From Above.
ABOUT SCENES FROM ABOVE
Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage released Scenes from Above on January 23. His fifth Blue Note album, the second made in collaboration with revered producer Joe Henry, and his first with a striking new quartet featuring keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Jorge Roeder, and drummer Kenny Wollesen.
Where 2024’s GRAMMY-nominated Speak to Me was Lage’s grand statement as an improvising bandleader helming an ensemble through a diverse set of tunes, Scenes from Above is about being a band member himself, about Lage exploring the tunes he has written with a crew he has built with that entirely in mind. Its nine tracks frame a brilliantly open experience, with four astounding players giving and taking space in equal measure as they explore these songs in one space, in real time.
“I came in with a desire to present this as an egalitarian thing, rather than ‘I’m the leader — let’s build something around me,’” Lage says. “This is music that’s connected to our own growth and development individually and within our relationships with one another, with no sense that anybody’s expecting anything.”
The album’s nine compositions resulted from what Lage calls a writing sprint ahead of a residency at SFJAZZ which marked the live debut of the band. As he thought about each of their qualities as players and hypothesized about how they might interact, he set a timer for 20 minutes, wrote a tune, recorded it once, and then began again. “My dream with composing, really, is to have something to talk about once we’re together,” he says. “It’s not the end-all, be-all.”
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