The Iridium Continues 'Les Paul Tribute' With Shows Every Monday Night

THE IRIDIUM WILL CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE LES PAUL THE MAN, HIS MUSIC AND HIS LEGACY EVERY MONDAY NIGHT WITH

THE LES PAUL TRIO AND SPECIAL GUESTS

LOU PALLO - GUITAR, JOHN COLIANNI - PIANO, NICKI PARROTT - BASS

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

FEB. 8 VERNON REID (Living Color, Masque)
FEB. 15 John Jorgenson's Gypsy Jazz and Friends (Desert Rose Band, Elton John)
FEB. 22 JEFF ‘SKUNK' BAXTER (Steely Dan, Doobie Bros.)
MAR. 1 STANLEY JORDAN (Gold-selling Grammy Nominated Guitar Innovator)
MAR. 22 MARTIN TAYLOR (Stephane Grappelli, Chet Atkins, Bill Wyman, George Harrison)

Opening for the Trio Each Week - TW DOYLE - Long time engineer and guitarist for Les Paul
show time starting at 7:45

FEB. 8 VERNON REID (Living Color, Masque)

The Grammy Award winning guitarist and co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition Vernon Reid is probably best known for leading the pioneering rock band Living Colour.
He's worked with a wide variety of experimental musicians -- Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, Defunkt, Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, and Public Enemy, and Masque among others. http://www.myspace.com/vernonreid

FEB. 15 John Jorgenson's Gypsy Jazz and Friends (Desert Rose Band, Elton John)

Guitar player John Jorgenson founded the Desert Rose Band with Chris Hillman in the '80s, played in an electric guitar trio called the Hellecasters before joining Elton John's band for six years. He's now known as "the Ambassador of Gypsy Jazz," reviving the music of Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.
http://www.johnjorgenson.com/

FEB. 22 JEFF ‘SKUNK' BAXTER (Steely Dan, Doobie Bros.)

Jeffrey "Skunk" Baxter has had a long and successful career in the music and entertainment field as a founding member of the group Steely Dan, a member of the Doobie Brothers and as a record producer for such artists as Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, Nils Lofgrin and The Stray Cats. He has toured with such bands as The Stray Cats, Elton John, Julian Lennon and Linda Ronstadt. He has been a studio musician for 35 years, recording with such artists as Donna Summer, Dolly Parton, Ringo Starr and Rod Stewart and has composed music for movies and television including the original theme for "Beverly Hill 90210", music for "King of the Hill" and scoring for movies like "Bull Durham" and "Roxanne." During that time he has earned over 16 gold and platinum albums, singles and 2 Grammys. He has worked as a design engineer/consultant for Akai, Roland, Audio-Technica and Fender. He is currently working on his first solo record and still actively involved as a guitarist, composer, producer and engineer. - http://www.gibson.com/player/mar03/baxter.html

MARCH 2010
MAR. 1 STANLEY JORDAN (Gold-selling Grammy Nominated Guitar Innovator)

From the moment he made his debut in 1985 with the gold-selling Grammy® nominated album Magic Touch, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has proven himself as a forward thinking innovator. With his nimbly executed "touch" or "tap" technique, he ushered a dazzling and spellbinding new sound into the world of progressive instrumental music.
http://www.stanleyjordan.com/

MAR. 22 MARTIN TAYLOR (Stephane Grappelli, Chet Atkins, Bill Wyman, George Harrison)

Pat Metheny describes Martin Taylor as one of the most awesome solo guitar players in the history of the instrument. America's Acoustic Guitar magazine calls him 'the acoustic guitarist of his generation'. Award winning guitarist MARTIN TAYLOR has established a unique musical career as an internationally acclaimed musician, and his inimitable style has seen him recognised as the world's foremost exponent of solo jazz guitar playing. He has collaborated with musicians from many different musical genre including, Stephane Grappelli, Chet Atkins, Bill Wyman, George Harrison, Dionne Warwick, Sacha Distel Bryn Terfel and Jamie Cullum.
http://martintaylor.com/

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