Tomorrow Is Hear

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Tuesday night (3/10/20), the city of KY is gonna be a tour stop for Julian Lage & Dave King. They'll be performing at Apiary Fine Catering & Events, a gorgeous venue at the edge of downtown (Jefferson, b/t 2nd & 3rd). It's a last-minute show courtesy of the Origins Jazz Series, who is currently in their third season bringing some of the best musicians on the modern jazz scene to town.

The modern jazz scene is more diverse and expansive than it’s ever been. Music is as likely to stomp as it is to swing, bounce instead of bop. The stereotypes of a late night Miles Davis cool or a chaotic Ornette Coleman explosion just don’t hold true anymore. Case in point are Julian Lage and Dave King. Lage has a particular style of folk jazz that would fit in as easily with Railbird Fest as it would the Monterey Jazz Fest. His album Gladwell is music for hanging out on the porch on a sunny afternoon and watching the birds flutter about. His recent duo album with Wilco’s Nels Cline is series of hopscotch rhythms that carry a melody along like leaves down a rapidly flowing stream. Dave King is best known for his membership in The Bad Plus, a trio who caused a minor revolution in jazz at the start of the century adapting classic rock and grunge songs for jazz performance, bringing a pop music sensibility to complex music. But the Minnesota native also has rock and alt-country projects that show his creative needs don’t reside in just one form of expression. They are touring in support of their new album “Love Hurts.” It’s gonna be a great show.

And even if you’re feeling ambivalent about the music, just the opportunity to hear some engaging sounds in a venue like The Apiary is reason enough to come out for this Tuesday night gig. I’ve walked past that place on Jefferson (between 2nd & 3rd) so many times, and tried to find an opportunity to crash the place and just look around. It’s like this little oasis right in the middle of the city. Thrilled that all I have to do to get in there now is just buy a ticket.

Here’s some links relevant to the show, including how to buy tickets and the show details, as well as some links to organization, musician and venue sites. Tickets are $20, $25 at the door.

Musician site: https://www.daveking.net/julian-lage

The Apiary site: https://the-apiary.com/

Origins Jazz site (to learn more about the show & buy tickets): https://www.originsjazz.org/series/2020/3/10/julian-lage-and-dave-king