# Don’t forget Vic Juris – He always very attentive to the internal dynamics of a world-class “guitar-oriented”: Video, Photos

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- Published: 2024-07-11T00:02:34+01:00
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**The long and fruitful career of Vic Juris (1953-2019) has always stood at high
levels discographically, which have framed his style, a fluid jazz, impervious to
fashions, self-confident, precious and slightly distant from the violent lights 
of the limelight.**

In the 80s his name was indicated by the great masters of jazz guitar as an absolute
reference for the future, instead Metheny, Frisell, Scofield arrived on the scene
while Vic Juris, for many years a sideman in Dave Liebman’s group , went through
his brilliant fusion phase and then continued, without getting upset at all, to 
build his long melodic lines within which his quiet speed could shine, collaborating
as a sideman on many projects but above all recording a long series of albums under
his own name. merit, there are a total of 26 of them, causing a sort of sober but
tenacious cult to develop in Italy too, especially among the most attentive guitarists
and jazz fans, mainly the result of word of mouth, of recovered records, various
cassettes, then CDs obviously and again Mp3 files, now streaming etc.

![](https://i0.wp.com/jazzguitartoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/The-Vic-Juris-
Band.jpg?fit=740%2C493&ssl=1)

His death, at just 66 years of age, on the verge of New Year’s Eve 2019/20, after
a ferocious and long illness, has made him even dearer to us, in fact, even if we
cannot now say on which media (?) music will be listened to in the future we are
certain that his “cover photos” will improve significantly, and that his name will
continue to circulate in the same ancient and artisanal way, to the great satisfaction
of those who end up finding themselves in his art.

In 2015 Juris experienced a fate of Indian Summer, in fact he signed two albums 
in duo with the giant Phil Woods, two poignant Philology recordings which are also
the last testimony of Phil Woods, and he also published yet another Steeplechase
album, “Blue” , which we bring back to the reader today, after the ritual sprinkling.

![](https://i0.wp.com/jazzguitartoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vic-Juris-9.
jpg?fit=740%2C670&ssl=1)

Record of staid excellence, in a trio with the trusted Jay Anderson on bass and 
Adam Nussbaum on drums, again for the Danish label with which he made a long series
of albums with very questionable, not to say atrocious, covers, but with content
always very high level (for the series: never judge a book by its cover, a jazz 
musician by his publicist, etc., etc.).

And so returning to this “Blue” we can only confirm the impressions of when we bought
it, in short we are faced with a great work, of stringent intensity and without 
any chipping.

Ballads with a clearly nocturnal atmosphere, such as Coleman’s masterpiece “Lonely
Woman” proposed at the start, alternate with skilful reinterpretations (there is
Monk, but also “What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye!) and deep blues with original arrangements,
with a Vic Juris always very attentive to the internal dynamics of a world-class“
guitar-oriented” trio which finds its strengths in the naturalness of speech, the
result of total mastery of the subject, and in the marked elegance that mutual listening
offers both in the development of the solos, from which a measured, extraordinary
Nussbaum practically abstains, and in the exposition of immortal themes such as “
All The Things You Are” or “I Wish I Knew” itself.

The impressive technical mastery is strictly at the service of the music, and after
the nostalgic, final “Remembering the Rain” the repeat button almost automatically
clicks, or you look for another record, of the many that this generous, great guitarist
of the New Jersey.

![](https://i0.wp.com/jazzguitartoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vic-Juris-2.
jpg?w=640&ssl=1)

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