- a note from the transcriber:
To me, being a guitarist, this album has been the most instrumentally innovative one this year. This also displays Julian Lage's first explorations on the Fender Telecaster electric guitar, which he, not surprisingly, takes to his own awe-inspiring level in terms of playing subtleties and sound.
The online magazine Observer awarded this as #2 on their list of best jazz album of 2016, and in my humble opinion, this is Julian Lage's best album so far. Enjoy playing this great music!

album: Arclight (2016)
artist: Julian Lage
writers: Music by Julian Lage (1,4-8,11), Neil Morét (2), Spike Hughes (3), Sammy Fain (9), W. C. Handy (10) / Lyrics by Gus Kahn (2), Irving Kahal (9)

electric guitar: Julian Lage
· guitar models: Fender Telecaster, 1954 / Nacho Telecaster (“Nachocaster”)
· string gauge: D’Addario, EJ21, 12-52 Jazz Light, XL Nickel Wound
double bass: Scott Colley
(drums, percussion, vibraphone: Kenny Wollesen)
producer: Jesse Harris

" Jesse [Harris] is a brilliant musician, a brilliant producer, guitar-player, someone very dear to me. In making 'Arclight', his role was to help me focus this idea, a concept, that we could take old Jazz tunes... re-imagine Jazz records – so tunes from the 20ies, from the 30ies – and combine that with the electric guitar, with the Telecaster. It is a very specific niche subculture-thing I was chasing. He had such an elegant way of bringing it all together into a record that made sense. "
– Julian Lage