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DiMeola Plays Piazzolla

Al di Meola

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Album Review

Latin music has been a strong influence on Al Di Meola since his early years, and in the '90s, he paid especially close attention to the music of Argentina. A welcome addition to his already impressive catalog, Di Meola Plays Piazzolla pays homage to the late Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla (whose distinctive and very poetic brand of romanticism was considered quite daring and radical in Argentina). It would have been easy for an artist to allow his own personality to become obscured when saluting Piazzolla's legacy, but the charismatic Di Meola is too great an improviser to let that happen. Though his reverence for Piazzolla comes through loud and clear on these haunting classics, there's no mistaking the fact that this is very much an Al Di Meola project.

Customer Reviews

Maybe the best CD I,ve had in my hands

# 1 It´s the closest I´ve been to heaven

I had never heard of Piazzolla before this album

Wow! This is a wonderful piece of work. After listening, to each track you feel like you are visiting inside the song's title. After this, I've listened to much more di Meola and Piazzolla and was so happy to have done so.

Now Here's Some Music!

His style is spectacular --every phrase, every note, is perfect. There is some excellent guitar playing on this album. Buy it.

Biography

Born: July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, NJ

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Guitarist Al di Meola first rose to prominence as a blazing jazz fusion player before his playing matured and he began to conquer other styles, such as acoustic Latin music. Born on July 22, 1954, in Jersey City, NJ, di Meola briefly studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston during the early '70s before accepting a job replacing guitarist Bill Connors in fusion trailblazers Return to Forever (a group that included such monster instrumentalists as keyboardist Chick Corea and bassist Stanley...
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