Modern Lore finds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight. That album produced, like Modern Lore, by Lage's friend and collaborator, the singer-songwriter Jesse Harris was his first trio set on electric guitar and found Lage inspired by the sounds and the attitude of the freewheeling, pre-bebop jazz era, when, as he puts it, "country music and jazz and swing were in this weird wild-west period." This time he incorporates the sensibility, if not the outright sound, of early rock and roll, a similarly hybrid form driven by rhythm, personality and a passion for the electric guitar.

On Modern Lore, Julian Lage's second studio recording with his trio, the composer and guitarist focuses on the groove, building his melodies and solos around the work of the prodigious rhythm section of double bassist Scott Colley and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Modern Lore finds Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight.

TRACKLIST

01. The Ramble
02. Atlantic Limited
03. General Thunder
04. Roger the Dodger
05. Wordsmith
06. Splendor Riot
07. Revelry
08. Look Book
09. Whatever You Say, Henry
10. Earth Science
11. Pantheon

Personnel:

Julian Lage - guitar
Scott Colley - bass
Kenny Wollesen - drums, vibraphone