Julian Lage - Speak To Me [2LP Bone/Cream]

Format: 2 x LP, Coloured
Catalogue No.: 5883075
Barcode: 0602458830750 
Release Date: 01 Mar 2024 
Genre: Jazz

Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage has announced the March 1 release of Speak To Me, his vivid and wondrously textured new Blue Note album produced by Joe Henry which offers a series of dispatches from his ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and capacious in intention, the music travels a wide range of American music, and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, California singer-songwriter sunshine and skronky jazz. The 13-track set of new Lage originals is introduced today with a 2-track single pairing the hard-driving, bluesy “76” with the atmospheric acoustic ballad “As It Were.” The album also includes the previously released single “Omission,” a reverent tune imbued with a pastoral swing. Speak To Me showcases the guitarist in a variety of settings, including solo acoustic, duo, his accustomed trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King, and a larger ensemble with keyboards (from Kris Davis and Patrick Warren) and woodwinds (Levon Henry). It’s Lage’s fourth effort for Blue Note, and it’s part of a torrent of creative activity that includes his participation in Charles Lloyd’s Trio of Trios project and records with Terri Lynn Carrington, John Zorn, and Cautious Clay.

Side 1
1. "Hymnal"
2. "Northern Shuffle"
3. "Omission"
4. "Serenade"
Side 2
1. "Myself Around You"
2. "South Mountain"
3. "Speak To Me"
Side 3
1. "Two & One"
2. "Vanishing Points"
3. "Tiburon"
Side 4
1. "As It Were"
2. "76"
3. "Nothing Happens Here"