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The grin on Glenn Frey’s face was clearly a satisfied one, but there was something else there too, something tugging at the corners of his mouth a€’ it was a trickster smile of a man hatching a plot or enjoying the subversive tang of a still-private punch line.

« I feel so empowered, » Frey said as he jabbed a « play » button on the control board at his Santa Monica recording studio. It’s here he put together the just-released « After Hours, » his first solo album in 20 years and a whole new flight path for the Eagles member. The record, some of which he’ll play Saturday night at the Wiltern, is a collection of standards as well as burnished classics that take him away from « guitar singing » as he calls his day job…