AL DI MEOLA - PASSION, GRACE AND FIRE

Passion, Grace and Fire

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Passion, Grace & Fire
Studio album by John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía
Released	23 March 1983
Recorded	September - October 1982, at Marcus Music UK, London
Genre	New Flamenco-Jazz
Length	31:49
Label	Philips
Producer	John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía
John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía chronology
Friday Night in San Francisco (1981) Passion, Grace & Fire (1983) The Guitar Trio (1996)
John McLaughlin chronology
Music Spoken Here (1982) Passion, Grace & Fire (1983) Mediterranean Concerto, (For Guitar and Orchestra) (Live) (1988)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic
All About Jazz	[2]

Passion, Grace & Fire is the second album by John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía released in 1983. Unlike their first album Friday Night in San Francisco,

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1. "Aspan" (John McLaughlin) – 4:09
2. "Orient Blue Suite" (Al Di Meola) – 7:08
   • Part I
   • Part II
   • Part III
3. "Chiquito" (Paco de Lucía) – 4:46

Side two

1. "Sichia" (Paco de Lucía) – 3:50
2. "David" (John McLaughlin) – 6:30
3. "Passion, Grace & Fire" (Al Di Meola) – 5:26

Personnel

• John McLaughlin - plays on centre channel - nylon-string guitar.
• Al Di Meola - plays on left channel - Ovation steel-string acoustic guitar.
• Paco de Lucía - plays on right channel - nylon-string guitar.

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1983	Billboard 200	171
1983	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	23
1983	Billboard Jazz Albums	9

AL DI MEOLA / scenario

Scenario

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01 - Mata Hari

02 - African Night

03 - Island Dreamer

04 - Scenario

05 - Sequencer

06 - Cachaca

07 - Hypnotic Conviction

08 - Calliope

09 - Scoundrel

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AL DI MEOLA / flesh on flesh

Flesh on flesh

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01 - Zona Desperata

02 - Innamorata

03 - Meninas

04 - Flesh On Flesh

05 - Fugata

06 - Deep And Madly

07 - Saffire Soleil

08 - Senor Mouse

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AL DI MEOLA / the infinite desire

The infinite desire

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01 - Beyond the Mirage

02 - Shaking the Spirits

03 - Vizzin

04 - In My Mother`s Eyes

05 - The Infinite Desire

06 - Invention of the Monsters

07 - Istanbul

08 - Azzura

09 - Big Sky Azzura

10 - Race With the Devil on Turkish Highway

11 - Valentina

12 - The Infinite Desire

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AL DI MEOLA / casino 1978

Casino.

Another one of this latin jazz.Al is a real master of guitar.

01_EgyptianDanza

02_Chasin'TheVoodoo

03_DarkEyeTango

04_SenorMouse

05_FantasiaSuiteForTwoGuitars

06_Casino

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AL DI MEOLA-PACO DE LUCIA-JOHN MCLAUGHLIN / the guitar trio 1996

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The guitar trio.

The best jazz fusion trio in the world.Paco De Lucia and Al Di Meola have latin blood in there gene and you can feel it.
Enjoy.

01. La Estiba

02.Beyond The Mirage

03.Midsummer Night

04. Manha De Carnaval

05.Letter From India

06.Espiritu

07.Le Monastere Dans Les Montagnes

08.Azzura

09.Cardeosa

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AL DI MEOLA / elegant gypsy

Elegant gypsy.

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My favorite jazz fusion guitar player.This album is from 1977 and one of the best.

Al Di Meola

Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola
Background information
Born	July 22, 1954 (age 54) Jersey City, New Jersey USA(1954-07-22)
Genre(s)	Jazz, Funk, Jazz fusion, Latin jazz, Jazz rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, Songwriter, Guitarist
Instrument(s)	Guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, Cello, vocals
Years active	1974–present
Associated acts	Return to Forever
Website	http://www.aldimeola.com

Al Di Meola (born Al Laurence Dimeola July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an Italian American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist.

Di Meola grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and attended Bergenfield High School. He is now a resident of Bergen County, New Jersey.

Career

In 1971, he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1974 he joined Chick Corea's band, Return to Forever, and played with the band until a major lineup shift in 1976.

Di Meola went on to explore a variety of styles, but is most noted for his Latin-influenced jazz fusion works. He is a four time winner as Best Jazz Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine's Reader Poll.

Guitar historian Robert Lynch states: "In the history of the electric guitar, no one figure has done more to advance the instrument in a purely technical manner than Mr. Di Meola. His total command of the various styles and scales is simply mind-boggling. I feel privileged to have been able to study his work all these years."^{[citation needed]}

In addition to a prolific solo career, he has engaged in successful collaborations with bassist Stanley Clarke, keyboardist Jan Hammer, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, and guitarists John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. He also guested on "Allergies" from Paul Simon's "Hearts and Bones" album (1983).

In the beginning of his career, as evidenced on his first solo album Land of the Midnight Sun (1976), Di Meola was noted for his technical mastery and extremely fast, complex guitar solos and compositions. But even on his early albums, he had begun to explore Mediterranean cultures and acoustic genres like flamenco. Good examples are "Mediterranean Sundance" and "Lady of Rome, Sister of Brazil" from the Elegant Gypsy album (1977). His early albums were very influential among rock and jazz guitarists alike. Di Meola continued to explore Latin music within the jazz-fusion genre on albums like Casino and Splendido Hotel. He exhibited a more subtle touch on acoustic numbers like "Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars" from the Casino album, and on the best-selling live album with McLaughlin and de Lucia, Friday Night in San Francisco. In 1980, he also toured with fellow Latin rocker Carlos Santana.

With Scenario, he explored the electronic side of jazz in a collaboration with Jan Hammer (of Miami Vice theme fame). Beginning with this change, he further expanded his horizons with the acoustic album Cielo e Terra. He began to incorporate guitar/synthesizers on albums such as Soaring Through a Dream. Beginning in the 1990s, Di Meola recorded albums closer to World music and modern Latin styles than jazz.

He has continued to tour, playing in smaller venues like The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, and House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada. Recent concerts have included a sampling of his newer material (an engaging mix of acoustic, "distorted acoustic music", and guitar/synthesizer with a looser format than the songs on the early solo albums) along with a selection of electric guitar numbers from the early albums. Di Meola often closes out shows with an energetic rendition of one of his most challenging (to play, that is) pieces, "Race with Devil on Spanish Highway", from the Elegant Gypsy album. Even in technical showcases like this, he combines blindingly fast scalar runs with subtle, dazzling rhythms, and melodic phrases. Because of his early recordings, Di Meola became arguably the most important pioneer of shred guitar, influencing guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen (with whom he appeared on keyboardist Derek Sherinian's solo album Black Utopia in 2003) Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi with his speed runs as a child and Dream Theater's John Petrucci.^[3] However, in most cases after the early 1980s, Di Meola has largely distanced himself from this approach. In various interviews, Di Meola has stated that his reason for stepping away from the electric guitar is due to hearing damage (manifested as tinnitus) from years of playing at excessive volumes; the acoustic guitar does not aggravate his condition.

But in 2006 he rediscovered his love of the electric guitar, and the DVD of his concert at the Leverkusen Jazz Festival 2006 bears the subtitle Return to Electric Guitar.

Discography

Solo works

Elegant Gypsy (1977)

Kiss My Axe (1991)

Al di Meola in concert at Rams Head in Annapolis, Maryland.

• Land of the Midnight Sun (1976)
• Elegant Gypsy (1977)
• Casino (1978)
• Splendido Hotel (1980)
• Electric Rendezvous (1982)
• Tour De Force - Live (1982)
• The Guitarist (Germany) (1982)
• Scenario (1983)
• Cielo e Terra (1985)
• Soaring Through a Dream (1985)
• Tirami Su (1987)
• Kiss My Axe (1991)
• World Sinfonia (1991)
• The Best of Al Di Meola - The Manhattan Years (1992)
• World Sinfonia II - Heart of the Immigrants (1993)
• Orange and Blue (1994)
• Acoustic Anthology (1995)
• Di Meola Plays Piazzolla (1996)
• The Infinite Desire (1998)
• Christmas: Winter Nights (1999)
• World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion (2000)
• Anthology (2000)
• Flesh on Flesh (2002)
• Al Di Meola Revisited (2003)
• Vocal Rendezvous (2006)
• Consequence of Chaos (2006)
• Diabolic Inventions And Seduction For Solo Guitar (2006)
• La Melodia Live in Milano: World Sinfonia (2008)

Collaborations

• Venusian Summer (1975) Lenny White, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell
• Go (1976) with Go Stomu Yamash'ta,Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola
• Go Live From Paris (1976) with Go Stomu Yamash'ta,Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola
• Go Too (1977) with Go
• Friday Night in San Francisco (1980) with John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía
• Passion, Grace and Fire (1983) with John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía
• Latin (1987) with George Dalaras
• Super Guitar Trio And Friends (1990) with Larry Coryell and Biréli Lagrène
• Rite Of Strings (1995) with Stanley Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty
• Dance of Fire (1995) - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
• The Guitar Trio (1996) with John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía
• Winter Nights (1999) - Roman Hrynkiv
• Inspiration - Colors & Reflections (2000) Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
• Nylon & Steel (2001) Manuel Barrueco
• The Running Roads (2001) with George Dalaras
• Black Utopia (2003) with Derek Sherinian
• Cosmopolitan Life (2005) with Leonid Agutin
• Midsummer Night In Sardinia (2005) with Andrea Parodi
• Mária (Égi szerelem) (2007) with Miklos Malek and Eszter Horgas
• The NYC Session: Beautiful Love (2007) with Eddie Gomez, Billy Drummond and Yutaka Kobayashi

As Producer

• Magic Touch (1985) Stanley Jordan

Return to Forever albums featuring Al Di Meola

• Where Have I Known You Before (1974, Polydor)
• No Mystery (1975, Polydor)
• Romantic Warrior (1976, Columbia)
• Returns (2009, Eagle (Fontana)

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AL DI MEOLA / consequence of chaos

Consequence of chaos.

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01 San Marc (Moderna)

02 Turquoise

03 Odyssey

04 Tao

05 Azucar

06 Sanctuary

07 Hypnose

08 Red Moon

09 Cry For You

10 Just Three Worlds

11 Tempest

12 Storm Off Shore

13 Black Pearls

14 Africana Suite

15 San Marco (Vecchio)



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Al Di Meola / land of midnight sun

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01. The wizard
02. Land of the midnight sun
03. Sarabande from violin sonata in B minor
04. Love theme from picture of the sea
05. Suite golden dawn
06. Short tales of the black forest


However, it's also amazingly difficult to resist calling an album perfect because of a fear you're going to be labelled as a "fanboy" (as the kids today would say).

Land of the Midnight Sun does a *magnificent* job combining rock with an assortment of different genres. I hear blues, soul, funk, classical, jazz, and of course, rock & roll.

The powerful images this kind of music puts inside of my head are that of different countries and continents around the world such as many locations in southeast Asia, the frozen deserted land of Antarctica, and the jungle environments scattered all around Africa. This music takes me *everywhere* and never loses its impact. I really mean it when I say "never" too. Never once was I bored while listening to Land of the Midnight Sun.

Simply put, Land of the Midnight Sun comes very very close to being one of the best albums of 1976. If it wasn't for Elton John's Blue Moves, I might just knight THIS album "king of the 70's".

This is what you call sophisticated jamming done with passion, energy, emotion and complexity. There's so much feeling and melody in each of these jams that it's simply *frightening* that only 20-some people have bothered writing a review for it here on amazon. A catastrophe it hasn't been rediscovered decades later and connected to a loyal fan following among the younger crowd.

"The Wizard" is unlike anything I've ever heard. A REALLY dark rhythm sets the pace for some really neat jazzy guitar work. Unlike anything out there, perhaps (unless I'm missing something obvious). The title song SOARS to emotionally sad and devastating heights in the way the guitar jam slightly resembles Santana's style but takes it to a whole new meaning of beauty and unexplainable emotional power.

The "Golden Dawn" suite is a brilliant 10-minute adventure through any part of the planet you'd like. I'll leave it at that. Words are impossible to come up with when describing the many shifts and emotions a track like "Golden Dawn" takes anyway, so I won't even bother. Let's just say, jazz rock fans beware- this is quite possibly as good as it gets, and I mean that in the highest compliment imaginable.

Just astonishing. Land of the Midnight Sun is anything you want it to be. Everyone will get something different out of a masterpiece like this, I guarantee it. Give the complexity time to settle in and you'll be a fan of Al Di Meola for life.