This blog’s mission is to fill in the gaps … in your listening and mine. The unintended and unforgivable omissions from our collections must be purged. To that end, I would like to bring to your attention an acoustic guitar track by the jazz musician, Julian Lage.
In print, a missing letter is signified by an apostrophe. Much has been written about this little punctuation mark. It hides away when it should be present, and it sneaks into places where it is unwelcome. Its perversity is unparalleled. For a grammarian, it stokes no end of infuriation.
When whole words and phrases are left out, the ellipsis takes their place. And, for missing musicians, we have the streaming sites to thank for their albums and playlists. Julian Lage’s talent hasn’t gone unnoticed; he performed at the Grammy Awards in 2000 when he was just 12. Since then, he has played with a host of well-known musicians and released a dozen or so solo albums. If the man from California has escaped your attention, here’s a sampler of his work from 2009 to the present day.
Crotchety Man 
This classy-sounding artist has been an omission in my listening life, now rectified, so cheers! Apropos of not much, by the way, I understand one of Beachcomber’s biggest fans was Spike Milligan.
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