Jeff Beck pays a heartfelt tribute to Les Paul and other guitar heroes of the Fifties with the new CD and DVD offering Rock n' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul.

Legendary guitarist and 2010 Grammy Award winner Jeff Beck is set to hit the Louisville Palace in Louisville, KY on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Tickets for this must see show go on sale this Friday, January 14th at noon. Jeff Beck paid fitting Tribute to Les Paul last summer, celebrating what would have been the pioneering guitarist's 95th birthday by playing his friend and mentor's music, along with classic tunes from the era, in the same Times Square nightclub that Paul played every Monday for 14 years before his death in August 2009.

Les was my inspiration, says Beck. For years I had always wanted to do something for Les to show him how much I respected and admired what he had done. Les used to play every week at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, so for me it was the obvious and fitting place for a Salute to him. Earlier this month, Beck's latest album Emotion & Commotion was nominated for five Grammy® awards including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Hammerhead), Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (I Put A Spell On You/ with Joss Stone), Best Pop Instrumental performance (Nessun Dorma), and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (for Steve Lipson).

Beck is also nominated in the Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals category for Imagine, his collaboration with Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1 & Oumou Sangare. This marks the most nominations ever for Beck in a single year and makes him the most nominated artist in the Rock field in addition to being the most nominated British artist for this year's awards. Beck has previously won five Grammy awards.

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