Les Paul Dies
News travels so fast these days: I go on Facebook and there are notes from a bunch of people that Les Paul has died. He was not a great jazzman, but he was an innovator and certainly influential. Now that I convinced my friend Dan Axelrod to write something about Tal Farlow, I will ask him to do something about Les Paul, because I know he has a few personal stories.
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Just to tie up lose ends. I asked Dan for a comment. He declined, basically saying, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” So there it is.
What do you mean, he wasn’t a great jazz man?
Ever listen to some of the Granz, Jazz At The Philharmonic records?
I admit that I haven’t listened to those in a few years. When I get back home to my collection I’ll check them out, with an open mind.