[Dixielandjazz] Les Paul 90th Birthday Celebration

[Steve barbone]

Hey Southern California left coasters. You may wish to see/hear this event
even though Les Paul is categorized as a Pop/Rock star these days. Wow, on
the charts at 90. One never knows, do one?

Cheers,
Steve


LES PAUL & FRIENDS: 90th BIRTHDAY SALUTE
 
All-Star Concert To Benefit A Place Called Home
Tuesday, February 7 At Los Angeles¹ Gibson Amphitheater
 
Les Paul With Merle Haggard, Alison Krauss, Steve Lukather, Joe Perry, Joe
Satriani, Neal Schon,  Shayna Steele, Buddy Guy, and Edgar Winter
 
Hollywood, California ­ January 26, 2006 ­ On Tuesday, February 7 at 8pm,
one of the world's greatest gatherings of guitarists will take the Gibson
Amphitheater stage in Los Angeles for LES PAUL & FRIENDS: 90th BIRTHDAY
SALUTE, a star-studded celebration.
 
Guitar legend Les Paul, celebrating two Grammy nominations in his 90th year,
will share the Gibson Amphitheater stage with some of music¹s finest
performers.  Les Paul & Friends: 90th Birthday Salute, an all-star concert
to benefit A Place Called Home, shares the collaborative spirit of Paul¹s
2005 album, Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played, released in
August by Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing.  Paul¹s first new release
since Chester and Lester, his 1978 Grammy-winning collaboration with Chet
Atkins, Les Paul & Friends marked Paul¹s first return to Billboard¹s Albums
chart in 50 years, while also setting a new record for Paul as the eldest
living artist to ever enjoy a Top 200 chart debut. Songs from the album have
received two Grammy nominations in the Rock and Pop categories, making Paul
the eldest living nominee ever in those fields.
 
Les Paul, the father of the electric guitar, was born June 9, 1915. The
five-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is the
inventor of the solid body electric guitar and the pioneer of multi-track
recording, the use of reverb and other now-standard recording techniques.

Paul is being honored throughout his 90th year with an array of new product
releases, honors and awards fit for the father of the electric guitar. In
addition to Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played, Capitol/EMI
released Les Paul with Mary Ford: The Best of The Capitol Masters (90th
Birthday Edition), a collection of Paul's finest Capitol recordings, with
new artwork, bonus tracks and a package essay written by Paul himself. Last
May, Paul was inducted into the National Inventors¹ Hall Of Fame at the
Hall¹s Akron, OH headquarters.  On June 9, the evening of Paul's 90th
birthday, he was honored with the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame Sammy Cahn
Lifetime Achievement Award. <http://www.lespaulonline.com>