Friday Night In San Francisco

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Release Date: 29th Nov 1994
Catalogue No: 4890072
Label: Columbia
Length: 40 minutes

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Classic Jazz Recording

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Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía: Mediterranean Sundance / Rio Ancho

Work length11:31

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Al Di Meola (acoustic guitar), Paco de Lucía (acoustic guitar), John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar)

Corea: Short Tales Of The Black Forest

Work length8:42

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Al Di Meola (acoustic guitar), John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar), Paco de Lucía (acoustic guitar)

Gismonti: Frevo Rasgado

Work length7:55

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Al Di Meola (acoustic guitar), John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar), Paco de Lucía (acoustic guitar)

Meola: Fantasia Suite

Work length8:50

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Paco de Lucía (acoustic guitar), John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar), Al Di Meola (acoustic guitar)

McLaughlin, J: Guardian Angel

Work length4:01

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Paco de Lucía (acoustic guitar), Al Di Meola (acoustic guitar), John McLaughlin (acoustic guitar)

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Classic Recordings, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía - Friday Night in San Francisco

26th October 2021

Matt wishes he could be transported back to The Warfield Theatre, 5 December, 1980, as he looks back on one of his favourite records, Friday Night in San Francisco, featuring three of the great guitar maestros on top of their game, making for a breath-taking live record.

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.

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