If there are any sceptics out there who doubt that a jazz guitar track can’t be an ear worm should press play on the official video for Julian Lage’s Northern Shuffle, which has been shared today on his YouTube channel.
Taken from his bravura 2024 studio album, Speak To Me, and performed live with Lage leading his six-piece band, an audience seated at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco to bear witness to it, Northern Shuffle has this ambulatory electric guitar riff with a groove that all but hijacks your consciousness.
