Sounding Point
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| Studio album by Julian Lage | ||||
| Released | March 24, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | May 11, 2008 and June 15–16, 2008 | |||
| Studio | Legacy Studios, NYC. | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 56:20 | |||
| Label | EmArcy | |||
| Producer | Steven Epstein | |||
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Sounding Point is the debut studio album by the jazz guitarist Julian Lage. It was released in March 2009 on EmArcy Records. It entered the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart at number 13 and was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Reviews of the album were generally positive; however. one reviewer found the recording inferior to Lage's live performances.
It started with an idea, but it wasn’t until I shared with some of the other musicians that it became something. We started having these dialogues about what would the Julian Lage record be. We would talk about it all the time. What kind of songs it would have and what would it say...I didn’t want it to be virtuosic; I wanted there to be a more storytelling in this. I constantly thought about how I could represent the common theme in all these songs.
Sounding Point was recorded when Lage was 20 years old. He plays an acoustic Martin D-18GE and an electric Linda Manzer archtop on the record.
The album was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album but lost to the Joe Zawinul album 75. The other nominees were Urbanus by Stefon Harris, At World's Edge by Philippe Saisse, and Big Neighborhood by Mike Stern.
Lage performs two solo tracks on the release, the remainder of the album consists of pieces played by three separate combos. There are two duets, "Tour One" and "All Blues", with pianist Taylor Eigsti and three all-string bluegrass inspired numbers, "The Informant", "Long Day, Short Night", and "Alameda", with Chris Thile on mandolin and Béla Fleck on banjo. The remaining six tracks are played by some combination of Lage's touring band; saxophonist Ben Roseth, cellist Aristides Rivas, bassist Jorge Roeder, and percussionist Tupac Mantilla. There are no trap drums on the recording, Mantilla plays cajón, djembe, frame drums and cymbals.
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