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This 1981 album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia was recorded at The Warfield Theatre on December 5, 1980, in San Francisco. All tracks are live except for the last track, "Guardian Angel", which is the opening theme from a song that appears on McLaughlin's 1978 Electric Dreams album. This is by far one of the hottest guitar albums ever to bless sweet vinyl. Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, & Paco Delucia play classical guitars in a flamenco / jazz style that will blow your socks off. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog master tapes and pressed at RTI. 2500 limited edition and numbered copies in a gatefold cover. 180 Gram vinyl, 45RPM set.
This live recording from 1980 matched U.S. fusion guitar heavyweights Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin with Spanish guitar whiz Paco DeLucia. The result, a dazzling technical display, also earned jeers as the international summit of world-class finger-wigglers by critics who felt it was long on chops and short on heart. John McLaughlin's importance to the development of the jazz fusion scene can't be overestimated: as the guitarist on Miles Davis's seminal Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson, he was the first significant guitarist of the electric jazz era; on his own, he brought power rock, spiritualism, and lush orchestration to the scene via his Mahavishnu Orchestra. DiMeola, the most commercially successful next-generation fusion guitarist, achieved stardom with Chick Corea's group Return to Forever and on his own records. DeLucia, virtually unknown in the U.S., is a fine flamenco guitarist, and it is that orientation more than anything that colors Friday Night: even when playing straightforward non-flamenco compositions, the phrasing and sensibility lurks behind every note. Still, the passion of the music is frequently marred by the participants' inability to play at anything but the most breakneck pace. --Fred Goodman
Track Listings
1. Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho
2. Short Tales Of The Black Forest
3. Frevo Rasgado
4. Fantasia Suite
5. Guardian Angel
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