Love Hurts cover

Love Hurts

Released

Live, with no overdubs, guitarist Julian Lage, drummer Dave King of The Bad Plus, and bassist Jorge Roeder run down a set of tunes with no foolishness. The mood is elegant but loose an the gang takes on Roy Orbison, David Lynch, Ornette, and other varied non-standard standards. Lage is a nimble and virtuosic guitarist but this isn’t the flex zone—he wants to play these songs and stretch out melodies to see what’s inside them. You can play this when family comes over.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Brewster’s Rooster cover

Brewster’s Rooster

Jack DeJohnette, John Surman, John Abercrombie, Drew Gress
Live in Seattle cover

Live in Seattle

Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers
Music for K cover

Music for K

Tomasz Stańko
You’re Driving Me Crazy cover

You’re Driving Me Crazy

Joey DeFrancesco, Van Morrison
Spoken Into Existence cover

Spoken Into Existence

Komandoz, Chico Freeman 4-Tet
Dream Garden cover

Dream Garden

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures
Tango: Zero Hour cover

Tango: Zero Hour

Astor Piazzolla
Westbrook-Rossini cover

Westbrook-Rossini

Mike Westbrook
Universal Syncopations cover

Universal Syncopations

Jan Garbarek, Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Miroslav Vitous, Chick Corea
A Better Man cover

A Better Man

Phil Perry