
5-Minute Lesson: Practice & Warm-Up Tips from Visionary Jazz Guitarist Julian Lage
In this 5-Minute lesson, guitarist Julian Lage explains the benefits of practicing quietly on the acoustic guitar.

In this 5-Minute lesson, guitarist Julian Lage explains the benefits of practicing quietly on the acoustic guitar.

Guitarist Alan Barnosky teaches an acoustic guitar arrangement of the melodic fiddle tune “Old Grimes,” as interpreted by Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge
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Lage has long since shed his child prodigy status to become one of the great jazz guitarists, if not one of the most brilliant musicians in general.

Throughout the history of guitar making, collaborations between luthiers and guitarists have influenced the discipline and produced spectacular instruments. A brilliant example of this practice is the new Collings Julian Lage Signature OM1 JL, based on a deep exchange of ideas between the late builder and company founder Bill Collings and contemporary guitar phenom Julian Lage.

This Shakespeare-inspired set is music of striking beauty. Rendered expertly by two of today’s finest young guitarists, it’s at once approachable and deeply satisfying.
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By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers A dream team of younger generation acoustic musicians, including Punch Brothers, I’m With Her, and Julian Lage, is hitting the road this summer for a tour called American Acoustic. See the complete dates below. The tour grew out of a festival with the same name that…

Julian Lage talks thoughtfully about developing his own guitar voice, his impressive genre-hopping, and how he's able to maintain a "delicate touch" on his instrument.