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...born Lester Polsfuss (the family soon simplified the name to Polfus) in Waukesha, 18 miles west of Milwaukee. Encouraged by his mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His acquisitive intelligence led him into all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer...
...sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away.' A year later he formed his first trio, with the bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the older half-brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul would cut the 1995 album 'Chester and Lester'). They came east and, 64 years before Paul's gig at Iridium, there was a Les Paul Trio playing a New York club...
...Brustein said that Lester will control the “public image” of the ART, while he will rely on Orchard for his “managerial and aesthetic sense...
...three-part directorship is not unheard of, Lester said, citing Sir Lawrence Olivier’s company as an example...
...It’s a model of leadership that’s not so new,” Lester said. “We have many years to work out the details and figure out the best formula as we move along...