The Jazz Gallery: Lage Lund Quartet

The Jazz Gallery
1158 Broadway, New York, NY 10001
5th Floor

Lage Lund –guitar
Lex Korten –piano
Matt Brewer –bass
Johnathan Blake –drums
Special Guest (Apr 13)

Lage Lund is acclaimed as one of the finest guitarists of his generation, and one of the more compelling jazz artists today. A regular in the “Rising star – Guitar” category in the Downbeat Critic’s Poll, he has been hailed by Pat Metheny as a favorite young guitarist, and is “all music and all soul” according to Russell Malone – one of the judges who awarded Lund top prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.

Armed with a growing and impressive body of original compositions, and mastery of the standard repertoire – Lund swings with great authority displaying a staggering harmonic sophistication and a singularly fluid voice as a soloist. He also brings a “casually magnetic” presence to the stage, “channeling reticence into a whisper-quiet mystique” and “balances his abundant proficiencies with an aesthetic of gleaming calm” (New York Times).

“Of the younger cats, Lage is THE one. He’s a wonderful player. Scary actually!” Kurt Rosenwinkel