Paul
USA
Born: 09 June 1915
Died: 13 August 2009
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Swing, Big Band/Swing, Vocal/Standards, Vocal Pop, Traditional Pop
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Les Paul had such a staggeringly huge influence over the way American popular music sounds today that many tend to overlook his significant impact upon the jazz world. Before his attention was diverted toward recording multi-layered hits for the pop market, he made his name as a brilliant jazz guitarist whose exposure on coast-to-coast radio programs guaranteed a wide audience of susceptible young musicians. Heavily influenced by Django Reinhardt at first, Paul eventually developed an astonishingly fluid, hard-swinging style of his own, one tha...
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