AL DIMEOLA COLLECTION - STARTS WITH  SPLENDIDO HOTEL - CBS/COLUMBIA RECORDS C2X 36270 WITH GATE FOLD COVER - LIMITED EDITION LONG OUT OF PRINT PRESSING FROM THE ORIGINAL LABEL FOR COLLECTORS

PLUS - THE AUDIOPHILE OUT OF PRINT EDITION OF John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia & Al Di Meola Friday Night In San Francisco Limited Edition 180 GRAM LP  Mastered by Bernie Grundman and Bob Donnelly from the Original Analog Master Tapes! Numbered Limited Edition 100% Analog 180g Vinyl LP!  

PLUS - THE OUT OF PRINT RARE EDITION OF Al Di Meola Morocco Fantasia 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION Direct Metal Master OUT OF PRINT RARE 2 LP SET 

PLUS - Al Di Meola CASINO 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION AUDIOPHILE LP

PLUS - THE OUT OF PRINT MUSIC ON VINYL EDITION OF Al Di Meola Land Of The Midnight Sun 180 GRAM LIMITED Import LP

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 Al Di Meola earned his stripes playing alongside Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea in  RETURN TO FOREVER, but he made his most compelling personal statements with 1980's  SPENDIDO HOTEL and its precursor,  . ELEGANT GYPSY Di Meola's compositional embrace of Argentinean tango (on a duet with Corea), Brazilian bossa (the romantic "Silent Story in Her Eyes"), and flamenco compas (the overdubbed solo piece "Splendido Sundance") made him more than just another fast guitar player and paved the way for his future work with John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia. Here he duets with Les Paul on Bert Kaempfert's comfy "Spanish Eyes," tries his hand at singing an up-tempo soul number ("I Can Tell"), blazes through odd-meter jazz-rockers ("Dinner Music of the Gods"), and closes with the acoustic "Bianca's Midnight Lullaby." This is an ambitious--and very long--set with contributions from Anthony Jackson, Steve Gadd, Phillipe Saisse, and Jan Hammer.

Musicians:
Al Di Meola, guitar, vocals, drums, percussion
Chick Corea, piano
Les Paul, guitar
Jan Hammer, synthesizer
Anthony Jackson, bass
Mingo Lewis, conga, bongo, percussion
Philippe Saisse, keyboard, marimba
Steve Gadd, drums
Eddie Colon, percussion

Selections:
LP 1
Side A:
1. Alien Chase on Arabian Desert
2. Silent Story in Her Eyes
Side B:
1. Roller Jubilee
2. Two To Tango
3. Al Di's Dream Theme

LP 2
Side C:
1. Dinner Music of The Gods
2. Splendido Sundance
3. I Can Tell
Side D:
1. Spanish Eyes
2. Isfahan
3. Bianca's Midnight Lullaby

Al Di Meola Morocco Fantasia 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION Direct Metal Master 2 LP SET

180g Direct Metal Master Double Vinyl! 

A high point of the Moroccan music festival is without doubt the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco.

Al Di Meola’s fantastic appearance in 2009 also represented a summit of different cultures and religions – Al Di Meola (guitar), Peo Alfonsi (2nd guitar), Fausto Beccalossi (accordion), Gumbi Ortiz (percussion), Victor Miranda (bass), Peter Kaszas (drums), and with special guests from Morocco, Said Chraibi (oud), Abdellah Meri (violin) and Tarik Ben Ali (percussion).

On his third trip to Morocco, the public gave this exceptional guitarist a rousing reception and showed its openness towards Western music – and Al Di Meola wowed the audience with a special repertoire.

Features:
• 180g Audiophile Vinyl
• 2LP Set
• Direct Metal Mastering

Selections:
A1:
1. Misterio
2. Siberiana
A2:
1. Double Concerto
2. Michelangelo's 7th Child
B1:
1. Gumbiero
2. Turquoise
B2:
1. Encore
2. Egyptian Danza

 John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia & Al Di Meola Friday Night In San Francisco Limited Edition 180 GRAM LP

Mastered by Bernie Grundman and Bob Donnelly from the Original Analog Master Tapes! 
Numbered Limited Edition 100% Analog 180g Vinyl LP!  

 
Friday Night In San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia. It was described by jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky as "a musical event that could be compared to the Benny Goodman Band's performance at Carnegie Hall in 1938...[it] may be considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums. All the tracks except Guardian Angel were recorded live at The Warfield Theatre on December 5, 1980 in San Francisco.

This debut recording on Columbia Records became a landmark recording that surpassed the two million mark in sales. The three virtuosos in the Trio toured together from 1980 through 1983.

Ah the Mediterranean... Filled with fine foods, wines, beautiful people, and the inspirational style of music that descended upon the able fingers of these guitar giants. This is by far one of the hottest guitar albums ever to bless sweet vinyl. Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, & Paco Delucia play classical guitars (the kind with the nylon strings) in a flamenco / jazz style that will blow your socks off! 

Paco de Lucia was a Spanish flamenco guitarist, composer and producer. A leading proponent of the New Flamenco style, he helped legitimize flamenco among the establishment in Spain, and was one of the first flamenco guitarists to have successfully crossed over into other genres of music such as classical and jazz. De Lucia was noted for his fast and fluent finger style runs. His collaborations with guitarists John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola saw him gain wider popularity outside his native Spain.

Al Di Meola is an acclaimed jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist, composer, and record producer. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date. Albums such as Friday Night In San Francisco have earned him both artistic and commercial success with a solid fan base throughout the world. A prolific composer and prodigious six-string talent, Di Meola has amassed over 20 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen or so others.

John McLaughlin is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer. His music includes many genres of jazz and rock, which he coupled with an interest in Indian classical music to become one of the pioneering figures in fusion. In 2010, guitarist Jeff Beck called him "the best guitarist alive." In 2003, McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." After contributing to several key British groups of the early sixties and making his first solo record, he moved to the US where he played with Tony Williams' group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric-jazz fusion albums: In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute To Jack Johnson and On The Corner.

"Recorded in 1981 at San Francisco's Garfield Theatre, there must have been magic in the air that Friday night. John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, and Paco De Lucia put on a show that was by most accounts an amazing turning point in concert and recording history...No percussion, no bass, no piano, no brass. Just three of the finest guitarists alive providing an acoustic masterpiece of breath taking melodic interludes and mind boggling improvisation...For me, the tough choice for "King of the Hill" is between the Impex 180 Gram Numbered Limited Edition and the ORG 45 RPM...The ORG has a rich natural presentation with a liquidity that is quite alluring—still plenty of dynamic punch and immediacy. The Impex is slightly more detailed with a locked in sound stage and imaging to die for. No edge. No fatigue. Just very refined and tangible. The Impex would be my choice as it does a better job of defining the differences between the harmonics and sound of all three musicians and guitars—much of which was lost in the digital renditions and only slightly more clarified on vinyl. But I am splitting hairs here on these last two. Both are absolute killer pressings and either would be an outstanding addition to your collection." - Robert S. Youman, positive-feedback, Issue 98, August 2018 

"Loose and spontaneous, this (mainly) live album is a meeting of three of the greatest guitarists in the world for an acoustic summit the likes of which the guitar-playing community rarely sees. Broken up into three duo and two trio performances, Friday Night in San Francisco catches all three players at the peaks of their quite formidable powers." - allmusic

"I wish I could remember here I was on, and more than that I wish I could remember that I was at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on December, 5, 1980, where this concert was recorded. Three of the world’s great guitar players played on the same bill, and their performances were to die for. The Guitar Trio formed in 1979, was originally composed of McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, and Larry Coryell, but after the release of this album, Al Di Meola replaced Coryell as a member. McLaughlin, the senior and perhaps best-known member of the group, was an early advocate of jazz fusion, and the elements he fused included principally electric jazz and Indian classical music, with some blues, flamenco and western classical music mixed in. A list of the groups he was associated with would exceed the word count of this article, but his albums with Miles Davis, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Shakti are well represented in the collections of any guitar fan. Di Meola, known for his lightning speed and technical prowess, trained at Berklee College of Music and came to prominence as a member of Return To Forever. Of Italian heritage, his playing extracts the essence of Mediterranean and flamenco. Sadly, Paco De Lucia passed away in 2014, leaving a powerful body of work (including this live masterpiece). Where the other two members incorporate flamenco into their music, de Lucia was first and foremost a flamenco guitar artist, and in his case, he incorporated jazz and classical music into his flamenco art. Like Di Meola and McLaughlin, he could play with lightning speed. Many music lovers first came to flamenco music through its use in jazz. Flamenco, however, dates back to the eighteenth century. Associated with the Romani people of Spain (gypsies), its roots spread wider, encompassing musical styles throughout the Andalusia area of Spain. Today, the sounds of flamenco guitar, castanets and hand-clapping have spread across a wide spectrum of performance styles. Some of my most treasured discs include a three 10” disc set titled Anthologie De Cante Flamenco on Ducretet-Thomson (LA1051-52-53) published in the early 1950s and Carmen Amaya’s Queen of the Gypsies on Decca DL 9616. These are likely some of the same records Di Meola, McLaughlin, and De Lucia pored over as youngsters, learning their craft. None of them, however, remained hide-bound or stuck in old ways of thinking, and their updated take on the Andalusia spirit was never more in evidence than in this mostly live recording. Frequently, putting three superstars together on a single disc backfires (the magic almost happened again on their later studio album, Passion, Grace and Fire), but here the three play at their respective peaks and the result is one of the great guitar discs of all time. The LP has never been out of print, and has always been considered an audiophile demonstration record. Even before cracking the seal on my copy of the new Impex reissue, I began seeing reports on the internet, claiming that an original pressing “blew away” the new reissue, or that it was doomed to failure because modern 180 grams records always sound inferior due to chemicals incorporated into the vinyl compound. Rather than sending the review copy back to Impex, I decided to listen to it and compare it to an original US pressing as well as the last reissue from the Original Recording Group (ORG) released in 2012, but no longer available. The Impex reissue was mastered from the original analogue master tapes by Bernie Grundman, with Impex’s Bob Donnelly sitting in (but not credited in the wax). It’s an edition limited to 3,000 copies and pressed at RTI in California. Unlike Impex’s recent Legrand Jazz, the cover is not the ultra heavy cardboard version used there, but it is still heavy stock cardboard. The sound is rich yet retains all the detail of the original. The Columbia original, by comparison, sounds a bit threadbare, where the Impex adds plenty of instrumental body and stage depth. It’s a big step up from the original and edges out the ORG 45 rpm version by a hair. A huge sonic and musical thumbs up! "Recording: 10 Music: 10 - Dennis Davis, HI-FI+, Issue 165

Features:
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman and Bob Donnelly from the Original Analog Master Tapes! 
• Limited Edition 100% Analog 180g Vinyl LP! 

• Plated and pressed at RTI, supervised by Rick Hashimoto 

Musicians:
Al Di Meola, guitar
John McLaughlin, guitar
Paco de Lucía, guitar

Selections: 
Side One:
1. Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho
Composers: Al Di Meola and Paco DeLucia
Performed by: Paco DeLucia (Left Channel) and Al Di Meola (Right Channel)
2. Short Tales Of The Black Forest
Composer: Chick Corea
Performed by John McLaughlin (Left Channel) and Al Di Meola (Right Channel)
Side Two:
1. Frevo Rasgado
Composer: Egberto Gismonti
Performed by John McLaughlin (Left Channel) and Paco DeLucia (Right Channel)
2. Fantasia Suite
Composer: Al Di Meola
Performed by Paco DeLucia (Left Channel), John McLaughlin (Middle Channel), and Al Di Meola (Right Channel)
3. Guardian Angel
Composer: John McLaughlin
Performed by Paco DeLucia (Left Channel), John McLaughlin (Middle Channel), and Al Di Meola (Right Channel)

Al Di Meola Land Of The Midnight Sun 180 GRAM LIMITED Import LP

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Classic Album! 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Pressing! 

Before Al DiMeola released his debut album Land Of The Midnight Sun in 1976, he played in the famous jazz band Return To Forever. With this band he recorded three albums making him a veteran at just 22 years old. As a true guitar hero of fusion DiMeola knows how to capture the listener with complex pieces including a three-part "Suite-Golden Dawn", a brief Bach violin sonata show and an acoustic duet with his former bandleader Chick Corea. With assistance of top bass players Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke, keyboardist Barry Miles and drummers Lenny White and Steve Gadd, this is one of his best albums. Land Of The Midnight Sun is a very impressive beginning of DiMeola's solo career. 

Features:
• Classic Album
• 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Pressing
• Import

Musicians:
Al DiMeola, six and 12 string guitars, electric guitar, synthesizers, chimes, gong
Mingo Lewis, percussion, keyboards
Steve Gadd, drums
Anthony Jackson, bass guitar
Lenny White, drums
Barry Miles, electric piano, mini-moog
Stanley Clarke, bass guitar, vocals
Patty Buyukas, vocals
Alphonse Mouzon, drums
Jaco Pastorius, bass guitar
Chick Corea, acoustic piano, marimba

Selections:
Side One:
1. The Wizard
2. Land Of the Midnight Sun
3. Sarabande From Violin Sonata In B Minor
4. Love Theme From "Pictures Of the Sea"
Side Two:
1. Suite: Golden Dawn
a. Morning Fire
b. Calmer of The Tempests
c. From Ocean to the Clouds
6. Short Tales of the Black Forest

Al Di Meola CASINO 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION AUDIOPHILE LP

180-gram vinyl

 

Master of the strings, Al Di Meola, who turn his back on over-ambitious manual dexterity as in "Elegant Gypsy" to concentrate more on musical substance, demonstrates his intensive work with the material in the follow-up album Casino. For example in "Egyptian Danza," an amalgamation of melodies which circle around one another and evoke with light electronics the contrasting worlds of the Orient, Occident and New World. A far sharper sound is conjured up in "Chasin‘ The Voodoo," which escalates to an extremely tightly-knit continuous fire, infused with the maestro‘s familiar guitar sound. Di Meola — with himself alone — combines the idea of multiple rhythms and parts: In the "Fantasia Suite For Two Guitars," four miniatures with percussive zapateado and whirling flamenco, he accompanies himself thanks to multi-tracking. All great stuff, but the best comes last: in the lengthy title number "Casino" all powers come together to create a magnificent performance with varying tempos, layered patterns, deceptive metrical changes and, of course, guitar playing of the highest order.

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.  

Recording: May - September 1977 at Electric Lady Studios, New York, by Dave Palmer

Production: Al Di Meola 

                1. Egyptian Danza

                2. Chasin' The Voodoo

                3. Dark Eye Tango

                4. Señor Mouse

                5. Fantasia Suite For Two Guitars

                6. Casino 

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