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June 5, 2003
The Original Axman
Les Paul will celebrate his 88th birthday Monday night at the Iridium club in New York City (where his trio plays every Monday evening):
He'll take one of his own signatures, like "How High the Moon," and fool with it in the most subtle ways. Les Paul isn't flashy - he leaves speed to one of his sidemen, the splendid Frank Vignola - but he knows exactly what he wants to do with every note, and it's invariably dead-on.
What he plays at Iridium isn't music of an era. It's not what's left of a once-great artist. It's just splendid music.
