Al Di Meola, a guitar virtuoso if there is one
Since the second half of the Seventies, few, like him, have been able to combine “cultured” music and commercial popularity with such consistency and success: To Di Meolawho turns 70 today, has never lost the pioneer spirit that led him to explore galaxies as distant and diverse as those of bluegrass, jazz, rock and world music, all merged – for convenience and a little out of laziness – into that enormous melting pot known as fusion.
To celebrate the birthday of the virtuoso guitarist of Italian origin, we offer you some of the most famous collaborations that have seen .To Di Meola to accompany artists of the highest calibre on stages and in studios such as Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin and ours, lamented Pine Daniel And Andrea Parodi.
“Friday Night in San Francisco”, with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin – 1981
“Passion, Grace and Fire”, with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin – 1983
“The Rite of Strings”, with Stanley Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty – 1995
“The Infinite Desire”, with Pino Daniele – 1998, from “The Infinite Desire”
“The Guitar Trio”, with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin
“Cosmopolitan Life”, with Leonid Agutin – 2005
“Midsummer Night In Sardinia”, with Andrea Parodi – 2007
“He & Carmen”, with Eszter Horgas – 2008
