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1996 studio album by Al Di Meola
Di Meola Plays Piazzolla |
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Released | November 5, 1996 |
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Studio |
The Hit Factory, Skyline Studios and The Tracking Zone (New York City, New York)
- Sound Chamber Recorders (North Hollywood, California)
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Genre |
Jazz fusion |
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Length | 59:54 |
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Label | Mesa/Bluemoon |
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Producer |
Al Di Meola
- Hernan Romero (Tracks 1 & 5)
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Source | Rating |
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Allmusic |
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Di Meola Plays Piazzolla is an album by
Al Di Meola which is a tribute to Argentinian composer
Ástor Piazzolla. Eight of the ten songs were written by Piazzolla. Di Meola is accompanied by percussionist
Arto Tuncboyacian and
Dino Saluzzi, who plays
bandoneon.
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Vince Mendoza provided some of the string arrangements.
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All songs by
Ástor Piazzolla except where noted.
- "Oblivión" – 6:01
- "Café 1930" – 6:13
- "Tango Suite, Pt. I" – 8:49
- "Tango Suite, Pt. III" – 8:50
- "Verano Reflections" (Piazzolla, Di Meola) – 4:10
- "Night Club 1960" – 5:44
- "Tango II" – 5:33
- "Bordel 1900" – 4:30
- "Milonga del Angel" – 3:44
- "Last Tango for Astor" (Di Meola) – 6:20
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Al Di Meola – guitars (1, 2, 5-9), all guitar parts (1), percussion (1, 5), orchestration (1, 5, 10), arrangements (1-6, 8, 10), acoustic guitars (3, 4, 10),
pandean pipe (5), voice (5), guitar solo (9)
- Spyros Poulos – programming (1, 5)
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Dino Saluzzi –
bandoneon (2-4, 7, 8, 10)
- Hernan Romero – keyboards (5),
charango (5), voice (5, 8)
- Chris Carrington – guitars (2, 6),
classical guitar (3, 4, 10)
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Arto Tunçboyacıyan – percussion (3, 4, 6, 8, 10), voice (3, 4, 10)
- Gumbi Ortiz – percussion (3, 4, 10),
congas (3, 4, 10)
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Vince Mendoza – string arrangements (2, 6, 8)
- Al Di Meola – producer
- Hernan Romero – co-producer (1, 5)
- David Baker – assistant producer (1), engineer (1, 3-5)
- Roy Hendrickson – engineer (2, 6-9)
- Dan Garcia – string engineer (2), engineer (6, 8)
- Scott Ansell – engineer (10)
- Joe Ferla – engineer (10)
- Rich Tozzoli – assistant engineer (1, 5)
- Sean Haines – assistant engineer (3, 4, 6-9)
- Michael Nuceder – assistant engineer (3, 4)
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Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) and Sound On Sound (New York, NY)
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Richard Evans – art direction, design, photography
- Richard Haughton – photos of Al Di Meola
- Camilla Van Zuylen – photo of Astor Piazzolla
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with Return to Forever | |
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with the Guitar Trio | |
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with Clarke and Ponty | |
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