Back In the Day, 2011

Jeff Beck

Rock'n'Roll Party Honoring Les Paul

(Atlantic Rhino)

In June 2010, Jeff (master of the guitar in sundry aspects) assembled stellar participants at NYC's Iridium Jazz club. Les had frequently played there in his autumnal years. Jeff reasoned it would be the ideal site for a concert honoring the inventor of the very electrified plank from which Jeff had wrought idiosyncratic charms since 1960s Yardbirds seasons. 

Flanked by a host of eminent personages -- themselves adept at riveting, jump-fly note-escapades --  Jeff laid into Rockabilly, Surf, and intriguing instrumental forays rapt witnesses surely found delightfully flabbergasting. Much six-string abracadabra transpired that night; Les deserved no less.

(Note: 27 songs are performed in the full video. Only 22, though, appear on the CD.)

Recommended: "Double Talkin' Baby," "Cruisin'," "Cry Me a River," "How High the Moon," "Sitting On Top of the World," "Vaya Con Dios," "Mockin' Bird Hill," "Peter Gunn," "Rockin' is Our Business," "Apache," "Sleep Walk," "New Orleans," "Walking in the Sand," "Twenty Flight Rock"

Videos: Entire 2010 concert (1:27:00)   "Cruisin'"   "Tiger Rag"   "Sitting On Top of the World"   "Peter Gunn" 

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