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File Name:Al Di Meola - discography
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Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on July 22, 1954, Di Meola grew up with the music of The Ventures, The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Drums were his first instrument, but by age eight he had switched to guitar. By his early teens, Al was already an accomplished player, though he felt somewhat ostracized from the local clique of musicians. "In the '60s, if you didn't play like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, you weren't accepted," he recalls of his high school years in Bergenfield, New Jersey. "So I was never really accepted by that group of so-called friends in Bergenfield because they didn't know what to make of my style. Even though I wanted to learn Beatles and Ventures music when I began taking lessons, my teacher (Bob Aslanian) also made me learn jazz and bossa nova and a little classical, so I had all this technique that my friends couldn't understand. It never fit the kind of music that they were playing. They were interested in my technique but at the same time they were jealous of it."

A big influence on his music outlook during his formative years was the burgeoning hybrid of rock and jazz that came to be known as fusion music. Guitarist Larry Coryell, whom Al later dubbed 'The Father of Fusion,' became a particular focus of interest. "I used to ride the bus from New Jersey to see him play at little clubs in Greenwich Village," he recalls. "Wherever he was playing, I'd be there."

In 1971, Al enrolled at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. By the second semester, he was playing in a fusion quartet led by keyboardist Barry Miles. It was in the early part of 1974 that he recieved the fateful call from Chick Corea. "I was just sitting around my apartment in Boston on a Friday afternoon when Chick called and asked me to come to a rehearsal in New York," he recalls. "I couldn't believe it. It was really a dream come true. In 10 minutes I packed some clothes in a bag, got a ride to New York and never saw that apartment in Boston again."

After three wildly successful landmark fusion albums with Corea on keyboards, Stanley Clarke on bass, Lenny White on drums and Di Meola on guitar - Where Have I Known You Before, the Grammy Award winning No Mystery and Romantic Warrior - RTF disbanded in 1976, effectively launching Al's solo career. He called the breakup a blessing in disguise. "It was probably for the best because we each got a chance to develop our own careers and get to know what it was like to be a leader and producer and just be out on our own."

He debuted in 1976 with Land Of The Midnight Sun, a typically blazing showcase of his frenetic, slashing style which also featured performances by drummers Leny White and Steve Gadd, percussionist Mingo Lewis, synth wizards Jan Hammer and Barry Miles, bassists Anthony Jackson and Jaco Pastorius. Over the course of six more albums with Columbia Records - Casino, Elegant Gypsy, Splendido Hotel, Electric Rendezvous, Tour De Force and Scenario - Di Meola firmly established himself as a powerful and influential force in contemporary music.

Di Meola continues to conquer new musical horizons on The Infinite Desire, which features his most extensive and effective use of midi technology to date. And wether he's triggering orchestral layers of rich sampled sounds or dealing with the acoustic purity of flesh and fingers on nylon strings, he still approaches his ax with uncommon conviction. At age 54, this bonafide guitar hero is still growing as an artist, still searching for new modes of expression, still eager to push the envelope on his astounding technique while bringing a new depth of feeling to bear in his playing.

Albums:

Al DiMeola  -  1976  -  Elegant Gypsy (320k)
Al DiMeola  -  1976  -  Land of the Midnight Sun (vbr)
Al DiMeola  -  1977  -  Casino (128k)
Al DiMeola  -  1977  -  Live At Belmont Raceway (256k)
Al DiMeola  -  1980  -  Splendido Hotel (320k)
Al DiMeola  -  1982  -  Electric Rendezvous (vbr)
Al DiMeola  -  1982  -  Tour de Force - Live (160k)
Al DiMeola  -  1983  -  Scenario (160k)
Al DiMeola  -  1985  -  Cielo e Terra (160k)
Al DiMeola  -  1985  -  Soaring Through A Dream (160k)
Al DiMeola  -  1988  -  Kiss My Axe (128k)
Al DiMeola  -  1990  -  Plays Piazzolla (192k)
Al DiMeola  -  1990  -  The Grande Passion (vbr)
Al DiMeola  -  1990  -  World Sinfonia (160k)
Al DiMeola  -  1992  -  The Manhattan Years (128k)
Al DiMeola  -  1993  -  Heart of the Immigrants (256k)
Al DiMeola  -  1994  -  Orange and Blue (128k)
Al DiMeola  -  1995  -  Acoustic Anthology (160k)
Al DiMeola  -  1996  -  Sunday Night In Boston (with McLaughlin) (224k)
Al DiMeola  -  1998  -  The Infinite Desire [FLAC]
Al DiMeola  -  1999  -  Winter Nights (192k)
Al DiMeola  -  2002  -  Flesh on Flesh (vbr)
Al DiMeola  -  2006  -  Consequence Of Chaos (256-320k)
Al DiMeola  -  This Is Jazz (160k)
Al DiMeola and Friends - 2006  -  Vocal Rendezvous (224-320k)
Al DiMeola, Larry Coryell, Bireli Lagrene - Super Guitar Trio 1990 (128k)
Al DiMeola, Leonid Agutin - Cosmopolitan Life 2005 (vbr)
Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin - Friday Night In San Francisco 1980 (128k)
Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin - Passion Grace & Fire 1982 (128k)
Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin - The Guitar Trio 1996 (vbr)
Al DiMeola, Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty - The Rite Of Strings (128k)
Al di Meola & Steve Vai - Race with devil....mp3

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Subgenre:Jazz
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