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“There are so many hurdles guitar players get into that are attributed to knowing 30% of the neck. Just map it out - it takes a week”: Julian Lage unlocks the secret of mastering guitar

The virtuoso guitarist explains his approach to music theory and the wider scope a little knowledge can bring

“We knock on the door and he says, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about. Come in.’ The best part was he said, ‘Do you want to play tonight?’” How a 9-year-old Julian Lage ended up playing with Carlos Santana in front of 20,000 people

“We knock on the door and he says, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about. Come in.’ The best part was he said, ‘Do you want to play tonight?’” How a 9-year-old Julian Lage ended up playing with Carlos Santana in front of 20,000 people

While Santana was touring the US with Jeff Beck, Lage turned up unannounced to meet his hero – and was invited onstage for a jam

“‘Where's Carlos?’ ‘He's in that room.’So my parents and I, we knock on the door, and he's, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about… do you want to play tonight?’”: How a 9-year-old guitar prodigy ended up jamming with Carlos Santana

“‘Where's Carlos?’ ‘He's in that room.’So my parents and I, we knock on the door, and he's, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about… do you want to play tonight?’”: How a 9-year-old guitar prodigy ended up jamming with Carlos Santana

Julian Lage recalls a “surreal” experience

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Pat Metheny called him “the father of modern jazz guitar”, while Mike Stern, John Scofield and Julian Lage worshipped his playing – here's how Jim Hall revolutionized modern jazz

Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section

“He said, ‘We should make it look older.’ We’d hit it against curbs, use sandpaper, and put polish remover on the frets”: Julian Lage radically DIY aged his father’s prized Telecaster “before relic’ing was a thing”

The jazz virtuoso has a close bond with the Telecaster, and one of his earliest experiences with the model involved some drastic relic'ing methods

“You bring in the full band and it just sort of erupts”: Watch Julian Lage unleash the mother of all electric guitar jazz grooves in the live video of Northern Shuffle

Recorded on an Epiphone Coronet, tuned to C standard, Northern Shuffle is one of the standout tracks from Lage's 2024 studio album, Speak To Me

"It's become the best guitar for really every genre, at every point in time, for those that choose to use it": See Julian Lage make the new Fender Player II Tele sound truly world-class

A Tele demo/love letter from one of the very best guitar players around right now

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“If you’re okay with what’s going on, the audience is too; and if you’re not okay with it, then they’re not”: Julian Lage shares some essential advice for solo guitarists

“If you’re okay with what’s going on, the audience is too; and if you’re not okay with it, then they’re not”: Julian Lage shares some essential advice for solo guitarists

Don't be afraid to take a beat and tune up if you've got to. Do remember to try and enjoy the show. In a recent interview, Lage reveals what he learned from playing with Leo Kottke

“Why you typically don’t lead a six-piece band with an acoustic guitar is because you can’t be heard! I am shocked that we are able to pull that one off”: Julian Lage on the electric shuffles and engineering miracles behind his most daring album yet

“Why you typically don’t lead a six-piece band with an acoustic guitar is because you can’t be heard! I am shocked that we are able to pull that one off”: Julian Lage on the electric shuffles and engineering miracles behind his most daring album yet

The jazz guitar maestro shares the secrets to guitar phrasing and discusses the irrational melodies and Eno-inspired “sound forward” approach behind his new album, Speak To Me

“They’re not my strings, not my pickups, not my anything, but I just thought, ‘Well, it’s eight o’clock, just make a show!’”: Julian Lage says using rented Telecasters to perform live freed him from gear anxiety

“They’re not my strings, not my pickups, not my anything, but I just thought, ‘Well, it’s eight o’clock, just make a show!’”: Julian Lage says using rented Telecasters to perform live freed him from gear anxiety

Drummers do it, engineers do it, so why not guitarists? Lage says backlining Telecasters for a string of dates with John Zorn was a challenging but ultimately liberating experience

“This song presents a kind of revisionist history where guitar solos were cool after all in the early noughties”: February 2024 Guitar World editors' picks

“This song presents a kind of revisionist history where guitar solos were cool after all in the early noughties”: February 2024 Guitar World editors' picks

From neoclassical tapping clinics to cosmic, spaghetti western-esque guitar soundscapes, this month has provided an embarrassment of six-string riches

Watch Julian Lage tease magic from his Collings OM acoustic as he performs new single Nothing Happens Here live in San Francisco with his ensemble

Watch Julian Lage tease magic from his Collings OM acoustic as he performs new single Nothing Happens Here live in San Francisco with his ensemble

Nothing Happens Here is taken from his forthcoming studio album, Speak To me, which is released via Blue Note on 1st March

Black metal has gone orchestral and nu-disco shred is back, baby: This week’s essential guitar tracks

Black metal has gone orchestral and nu-disco shred is back, baby: This week’s essential guitar tracks

Unmissable tunes from John Mayer, Dre DiMura, Heriot, Ihsahn, Julian Lage, Porno for Pyros and so many more…

Julian Lage: The Layers review – otherworldly jazz guitar

Julian Lage: The Layers review – otherworldly jazz guitar

The American guitarist’s sparse, largely acoustic companion piece to last year’s acclaimed View With a Room is another captivating creation

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