[Dixielandjazz] Les Paul on PBS

[AL LEVY]

7pm Houston time.  Here's the listing.
American Masters
Les Paul: Chasing Sound  #2002
Air: Thursday, October 25, 7:00 pm on KUHT
Broadcast In: English
To celebrate Les Paul's 92nd birthday, this profile looks back at the
precocious little boy from Waukesha, Wisconsin, who punched new chords into
his mother's piano roll, turned his bedsprings into a radio antenna and
rigged a microphone out of telephone parts to get a bigger sound from his
Sears & Roebuck acoustic guitar. The legendary Les Paul - father of the
solid-body electric guitar, inventor of overdubbing and multi-track
recording, king of the 50s pop charts and rock'n'roll pioneer - is still
irascible, still egotistical, still indefatigable, still performing and
holding court every Monday night at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City.
He is the last of that self-educated, brilliantly innovative generation of
media masterminds who revolutionized popular music and reinvented global
musical culture - still tinkering and still chasing the perfect sound.

Run Time: 01:26:46
Rating: TVPG      Captions: 608+Captions   Format: NTSC   Source: PBS
Rights Notes: SCH/ 1 YEAR; NCC; SIMUL.
Visit the Website:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/paul_l_stub.html

Cheers,
Al
Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Teacher and Music Prep.
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