He played on hundreds of the greatest West Coast pop tunes of the 1960s, producing and arranging several of them. He wrote enduring standards like "This Masquerade" and "A Song for You." He led the band for one of the most famous tours in rock music history, Mad Dogs and Englishmen. And right after that, his own road show, his group of Shelter People became the top-grossing tour in all of America. First-call session player, producer and arranger, band leader, song writer, showman, recording artist, solo star at different points in his life, Leon Russell was all of these things. Before any of that, he was Claude Russell Bridges, a native of Lawton, Oklahoma, a teenager at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, who became with several of his friends a part of the first Rock & Roll wave to hit America. After rising to the top of the Tulsa scene with like-minded cohorts David Gates and JJ Cale, Leon became one of the first musicians to head for the West Coast, where his talent and drive pulled him from the ranks of night club performers into the rarefied atmosphere of the recording studio. In the '70s, at the peak of his powers, he returned to his hometown and, for a few magical years Tulsa became an international crossroads for rock music, with Leon once again at the center of it all. Leon Russell's hall of fame music career didn't start at his former high school, but it was right here in this auditorium, at this very piano, that he began entertaining his classmates during lunch hours, pounding away at the latest songs from the new idiom called Rock & Roll. And it was here on February 9, 2019, where this extraordinary musical tribute was held in honor and memory of Claude Russell Bridges as a dedication for the newly refurbished piano whose keys once danced underneath the fingertips of the future Master of Space and Time.