How to play like this? I don't know, can it be taught?

Julian started playing at 5. At age 8 he started taking lessons from Randy Vincent, an amazing player in my area.

Randy says he didn't really teach Julian much, their relationship was more let's work as equals, he's talking about an 8 yr old. Randy also took Julian to Tuck Andress and Pat Metheny for 'tips ', but not lessons. Randy also hooked Julian up with Bruce Forman. And at 10 Julian met one of his greatest influences, Jim Hall. They remained good friends till Jim died. This is when Julian met Nels Cline who lived around the corner from Hall. Also Julian met David Grisman at 10 and through that Jules met Martin Taylor and Martin took him on tour.

At 12 years old Julian started playing with Gary Burton in his Generations band.

Julian at 17 got a free pass to go to Berklee but quit because he knew more than the teachers. Berklee quickly went after Jules and told him he could study with anyone in the school for free, in exchange for getting to use his name. So Julian studied with Mick Goodrick and Tim Miller for a while, like around a year. After that Julian decided to start his pro carreer. Some smart people encouraged him to wait when he was a kid, good call imo.

I had the opportunity to hire both Julian and Steve Kimock to do a clinic at the hogh school I tutored at, for $100 each. They did it because I was friends with both, mostly Kimock. I'm still in good standings with them but never see them.
Julian pulled a Fender Twin out of the back area of his 1978 Porsche 911. That right there was pretty impressive, no way could I do that without pulling a muscle.

 

Here is Julian and Martin Taylor who happened to bump into each other at a studio in Napa. No rehearsal,,,

After playing Martin sort of interviews Julian and they talk about David Grisman, where they met and how Julian blew Martin's mind by being so young. Good interview.

 

This is an excellent clinic where he talks about what he thinks when playing, and even better topics, more of his history too.

 

My comment was more tongue in cheek than reality.

 

Thanks so much, I knew there was Jarrett somewhere lol.

 

I would like to hear Julian play with the popular geniuses like Sco or Rosenwinkle, and of course all the others. Sco stands out. It was great to hear Julian play with Bill Frisell,,, but,,,
It's my opinion Julian played a bit too much, too virtuoso at moments. But there was also wonderful communication. Julian did goose Friz and so Friz played lots more notes linearly, even to the point of fast, less Frisellian more Hall or even Pass like. Those are just rough guesses. I do hear Hall though. What do you think?

 

Really? Aw, come on. I'm 65 ,I've been playing since I was 10. In 82 I put myself in music college for around 5 years. After school was done with is when my most serious study took place, a divorce, a kid, my teaching,,, I chilled out and put pencil to paper and started working on what I've absorbed into me as a player. Hundreds of pieces of paper on all the interesting topics I heard about. Around '90 I started buying guitar books, my favorite book store hands down was Guitar Solo in San Francisco. These guys specialized in all current guitar books, if they were good enough, go somewhere else for Paul Simon, this store was almost like the library for GIT. Back then GIT was doing real well and there was a real market for cutting edge modern guitar books, if the book said "concept" it would sell out.

That was in the 90s, now it's '19. I still have the two hundred books I bought, don't forget I was a single dad of a toodler, then young boy, etc. I just practiced the books and used paper to connect to what I already knew, all while my son grew up behind a computer.

At 65 I've slowed down because few rocks I've left unturned. I now have to a moderate degree, inserted a lot of these studies into my playing, so I'm recording lots more, time to make music.

This activity will keep my brain more healthy, I suggest you do the same, if you want to, and it sounds like you want to, so,,,

 

It does take an inderstanding of what they doing in the heat of playing to perhaps form an appreciation of the scrambled eggs they're playing.

It be like me watching my son play Warcraft or ???,,, I have no idea of the purpose and goal, to me it would look like he's doing weird random things, just like people that don't understand the "game" involved in "listening" to jazz. Because it is just a game. And the player is also a listener like the audience listener.

This game is "feeling" where one is. And the tension/release of a phrase. The game is also keeping track of "root movement" related to the harmony of the progression, and "going out of key" is also a skill beyond scales, moving into chromaticism. No doubt Julian is playing all twelve tones using chromaticism all the time in this solo.
So this is far beyond just chords and scales.

 

Who teaches a 5 year old to "hear" with the skill of a master?

I simply believe people are fortunate to be born with all things in place ready to go, the nervous system is in place, the cognitive abilities are in place, just prime for imagination.

 

I call it trying to be funny.