From the Meyer sound system designed in part by Les Paul to the club’s new state of the art HD recording/broadcast studio, The Iridium is the premier live music destination for audiophiles in New York. If you can’t make it out to the club this month, be sure to check out one of these upcoming HD webcasts at http://www.iridiumlive.com

Wed, Feb 6 – Genya Ravan

Sat, Feb 9 – Albert Lee

Mon, Feb 18 – Paul Gilbert with Les Paul Trio

Fri, Mar 15 – Brazilian Jazz All Stars / Jazz Samba & Jobim

Stay tuned for more announcements on upcoming webcasts and releases on the club’s IridiumLive label, which has already released live performances from The Grateful Dead’s Donna Jean Godchaux, Wilco’s Nels Cline, Stanley Jordan, and more.

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Still haven’t seen an IridiumLive webcast? See what you’re missing!   Click here for IridiumLive HD Highlights.

Winter special, 2 Limited Edition IridiumLive CDs for $25! Available at the club and @ the IridiumLive Store.

IridiumLive, our record label and HD webcast channel, is very pleased to announce some awesome Webcasts for late 2012!

Wed, Nov 28 – Gary Hoey’s “Ho Ho Hoey’s Rockin’ Holiday Show”
Mon, Dec 3 – Blondie Chaplin and Les Paul’s Trio
Mon, Dec 10 – Jim Weider with James Montgomery and Les Paul’s Trio

Shows at 8pm & 10pm (EST) – watch from around the world in HD at http://iridiumlive.com/live-webcast/

Still haven’t seen an IridiumLive webcast?  See what you’re missing!  Click here for IridiumLive HD Highlights.

Holiday special, 2 Limited Edition IridiumLive CDs for $25! Available at the club and @ the IridiumLive Store.

Arlen Roth is a consummate artist of the guitar, and we’re honored to have him in the IridiumLive family of artists!

This is a cut from his new IridiumLive CD, a beautiful take on a Ray Charles classic. Please check out the whole album on iTunes – containing 17 great performances of Arlen & The Cordobas!

Click here to Preview the full album

The Iridium’s celebrating the launch of its new audiophile record label, IridiumLive, with a slew of releases this fall from some of the most respected guitarists and vocalists in music, including the Grateful Dead’s Donna Jean Godchaux, Arlen Roth, Gregg Rolie (Santana, Journey), Corky Laing, and The Les Paul Trio with special guests Nels Cline, Stanley Jordan, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Jane Monheit. Each album on the label is recorded live with the club’s state-of-the-art 24-track HD studio and produced by Grammy-nominated producer Doug Yoel. See below for this fall’s albums and special release shows, keep an eye out for soon-to-be-announced releases including the Rolling Stones’ Mick Taylor.

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The Iridium, the Midtown music club known for its one-night-only collaborations and its long association with the late guitar legend Les Paul, announced on Wednesday that it had reached a deal with the media company Entertainment One to distribute its new record label, IridiumLive. The imprint will issue its first releases in the fall, with live recordings by artists including Nels Cline, Stanley Jordan and Gregg Rolie.

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Jane Monheit performing with The Les Paul Trio at Iridium in New York on Monday night

The Iridium nightclub in New York’s theater district came to prominence as a jazz room that once a week hosted Les Paul, the legendary guitarist, recording pioneer and namesake inventor of the famed Gibson guitar favored by several generations of rock gods. Mondays still belong to Paul’s swinging trio nearly three years after the granddaddy of guitar heroics passed away in 2009, but at last night’s launch event for IridiumLive, the club’s new in-house label, it was clear that Paul’s visionary status is now even more central to Iridium’s future.

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IridiumLive! is a new audiophile label devoted to exclusive live recordings captured at Manhattan music destination The Iridium.  We are very pleased to offer their first commercial releases on September 25, 2012:

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