It’s hardly fair to say guitarist/composer Julian Lage saved his best work for Blue Note Records. After all, he released a handful of memorable albums, such as Arclight, prior to joining the iconic jazz label.
Still, there’s no doubt Lage has stretched himself since issuing Modern Lore and Love Hurts roughly a decade ago, and, for this fifth outing on the venerable imprimatur, Scenes from Above, he continues the consistently courageous expression of his creativity, recruiting idiosyncratic keyboardist John Medeski to join drummer Kenny Wollesen and bassist Jorge Roeder.
This lineup offers great potential for the provocative mix of musical personalities, and sure enough, sparks fly from the get-go on “Opal.” Initially introduced, then pulled…

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