Julian Lage

About this show

Julian Lage plays Charline McCombs Empire Theatre, an 846-capacity theater in Downtown, on Thursday, April 8. The show starts at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $50.19 to $141.69 plus fees. This one could sell out: big draw for a room this size (170k listeners, 846 capacity). Julian Lage also has 4 other dates on Go See Shows, in St. Paul, Boulder, New York and Boston.

In the waning days of 2024, Julian Lage began what he calls a writing sprint. Lage has long been prolific: In the three decades since the documentary Jules at Eight identified him as a prodigy, Lage has made a dozen records with his own bands and duos, and three times that many with leading lights of his artistic orbit, like John Zorn, Gary Burton, and Charles Lloyd. But Lage was preparing for a four-day residency at SFJAZZ, plus the premiere of a new quartet of old collaborators and friends who had strangely never recorded together: Lage with steadfast bassist Jorge Roeder, dynamic drummer Kenny Wollesen, and vaunted keyboardist John Medeski.