ONE ON ONE: Al Di Meola - Orient Blue October 10th, 2020 Old Tappan, NJ
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2024
- Al Di Meola sits down for a One On One Session at his Studio in Old Tappan, NJ on October 10th, 2020. For more info visit: www.aldimeola.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin Audio Mixing and Mastering: Dori Chen-Roberts
Al Di Meola's ongoing fascination with complex rhythmic syncopation combined with provocative lyrical melodies and sophisticated harmony has been at the heart of his music throughout a celebrated career that has spanned four decades and earned him critical accolades, three gold albums and more than six million in record sales worldwide. A bona fide guitar hero, perennial poll-winner, and prolific composer, he has amassed over 20 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen or so others with the likes of the fusion supergroup Return to Forever (with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White), the celebrated acoustic Guitar Trio featuring fellow virtuosos John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia, and the Rite of Strings trio with bassist Clarke and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. And while his dazzling technique on both acoustic and electric guitars has afforded him regal status among the hordes of fretboard fanatics who regularly flock to his concerts, the depth of Di Meola's writing along with the soulfulness and the inherent lyricism of his guitaristic expression have won him legions of fans worldwide beyond the guitar aficionado set.
A pioneer of blending world music and jazz, going back to early Latin-tinged fusion outings like 1976's Land of the Midnight Sun, 1977's Elegant Gypsy and 1978's Casino, the guitar great continues to explore the rich influence of flamenco, tango, Middle Eastern, Brazilian and African music with his World Sinfonia, an ambitious pan-global group that he formed in 1991. Their exhilarating world music fusion has been documented on such releases as 2000’s The Grande Passion (featuring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra), 2007’s Live in London, 2011’s Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody and the stunning 2012 DVD, Morocco Fantasia (recorded at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco and featuring special guests Said Chraibi on oud, Abdellah Meri on violin and Tari Ben Ali on percussion).
His earliest role models in jazz included guitarists Tal Farlow and Kenny Burrell. But when he discovered Larry Coryell, whom Al would later dub “The Godfather of Fusion,” he was taken with the guitarist's unprecedented blending of jazz, blues and rock into one seamless vocabulary on the instrument. “I used to ride the bus from New Jersey to see him at little clubs in Greenwich Village,” he recalls. “Wherever he was playing, I'd be there.” In 1972, Al enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and by the second semester there began playing in a fusion quartet led by keyboardist Barry Miles. When a gig tape of that band was later passed on to Chick Corea by a friend of Al's in 1974, the 19-year-old guitarist was tapped to join Corea’s fusion supergroup Return to Forever as a replacement for guitarist Bill Connors. After three landmark recordings with Return to Forever -- 1974's Where Have I Known You Before, 1975's Grammy Award winning No Mystery and 1976's Romantic Warrior -- the group disbanded and Al subsequently started up his career as a solo artist. His 1976 debut as a leader, Land of the Midnight Sun, was a blazing showcase of his signature chops and Latintinged compositions that featured a stellar cast including drummers Steve Gadd and Lenny White, bassist Anthony Jackson and Jaco Pastorius, keyboardists Jan Hammer, Barry Miles and Chick Corea and percussionist Mingo Lewis. Over the course of six more albums with Columbia Records - Elegant Gypsy, Casino, Splendido Hotel, Electric Rendezvous, Tour De Force and Scenario - Al established himself as an influential force in contemporary music. 1980 marked the triumph of the acoustic guitar trio with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin. Their debut recording on Columbia Records, Friday Night in San Francisco, became a landmark recording that surpassed the four million mark in sales. The following year, 1981, Di Meola was inducted into Guitar Player’s Gallery of Greats after five consecutive wins as Best Jazz Guitarist in the magazine’s Readers Poll and winning best album and acoustic guitarist for a total of a record eleven wins. The three virtuosos in the trio toured together from 1980 through 1983, releasing the studio album Passion, Grace & Fire in 1982. In 1995, they reunited for a third recording, Guitar Trio, follow by another triumphant world tour.
without hyperbole, this is my favorite song of his and my favorite song of all, ever. ❤
Great!!! The Best Guitar player ever !!!
*Beautiful!! On Steel Strings is even better! The Great **#AlDiMeola** !!*
Still gives me goosebumps...
INCREDIBLE
looove this..my favorite
so moved to hear it played flawaleesly after all these years..
we love you al!
Beautiful!☀️
Yeah, definitely one of a kind. Kinda sad I will never be able to play like that, even if I had 500 years of practice, but that's the beauty of it as well. His touch n groove n sound n musicality are his own.
I love this piece! Da capo!
Al " THE BEST "
Bravo!
Beautiful piece that holds one's attention. Also, his nylon bass strings hardly squeak at all. I can only assume there is no secret to this, just good technique.
Tremendo tema, comencé a tocar la guitarra escuchando temas de su autoría. gracias
Genius
Enough said!!
Finally - a song I can learn in an hour or two! Not! :)
Everyone has a different style, John McLaughlin Yngwie Malmsteen George Benson everybody just have different styles of playing that's all. Moreover playing fast doesn't mean that you're better it just means you just play fast.
Orient Blue Suite ; 2 guitars are missing , but otherwise very good
what model is it?
This isn't "Folk Music". It's an amalgamation of jazz, classical guitar and spanish/flamenco influences. Perhaps "World Music" if you need a label. But it is decidedly NOT Folk Music, which is Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen and Donovan. There have been various "Alternative Folk" singers since the 1990s, but this isn't it.
Al DiMeola got his start as a teenager playing with Chick Corea's Return to Forever Jazz-Rock Fusuin group. He's gone on to do a lot of other things since, but all in a similar vein, especially with acoustic guitar.
This song is from his "Orient Blue Suite" recorded with Jazz-Fusion great John McLaughlin and Flamenco Master Paco De Lucia and released on their 1983 album, "Passion, Grace and Fire". As one might expect, it's essentially flamenco influenced acoustic jazz-fusion guitar. No relation to Folk Music.
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The erratic raincoat specially carry because sort cytologically hop outside a kind baritone. yellow, hot huge beret
Great!!! I prefer this spanish guitar to the Ovation. Beautiful song and awful technique. Thanks!
Why is his technique awful?
He did this song with Paco De Lucia initially lmao 😂😂 you’re incredibly ignorant