Speak To Me: CD O&O3465 who began the writing process

who began the writing process with a deceptively benign inquiry: What are people doing inside their homes

singing hits of the day or jazz standards

where it makes them nod or feel something or transport them somewhere

The Water Is Rising

and drummer Bill Dowdy—on 1960’s Blue Hour produced one of most deeply soulful hard bop outings in the Blue Note catalog

Speak To Me: CD O&O3465 who began the writing processGuitar virtuoso Julian Lage has announced the March 1 release of Speak To Me, his vivid and wondrously textured new Blue Note album produced by Joe Henry which offers a series of dispatches from his ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and capacious in intention, the music travels a wide range of American music, and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, California singer songwriter