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Al Di Meola - Casino (1978) Japanese Remastered Reissue 1998  Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 31, 2025
Al Di Meola - Casino (1978) Japanese Remastered Reissue 1998

Al Di Meola - Casino (1978) Japanese Remastered Reissue 1998
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 280 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 98 Mb | Scans included
Fusion, Jazz Rock, Guitar Virtuoso | Label: Sony Records | # SRCS 9383 | Time: 00:38:33

Following up the superb Elegant Gypsy was no mean feat, but Al di Meola gave it his best shot with the similarly styled Casino, released in 1978. Featuring a core band of Steve Gadd, Anthony Jackson, and Barry Miles (whom di Meola came up with before the guitarist was invited to join Return to Forever), the playing is sharp and fiery, matching the youthful intensity of the leader. Di Meola is a good composer in the fusion idiom, and the four original compositions on Casino, although clearly bearing the mark of Chick Corea's influence, are strong. His "Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars," featuring di Meola accompanying himself via multi-tracking, is beautiful and dramatic, and hints at the guitarist's later all-acoustic works such as Friday Night in San Francisco.
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco (1981) [Reissue 2016] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco (1981) [Reissue 2016]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:00 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 650 MB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1010 MB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 452 MB

A fantastic meeting of 3 extraordinary guitarists is one of the most influential of all Live Acoustic guitar albums. This 1981 album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia recorded at The Warfield Theatre on December 5, 1980, in San Francisco. All tracks are live except for the last track, "Guardian Angel", which is the opening theme from a song that appears on McLaughlin's 1978 Electric Dreams album. This marked the triumph of the acoustic guitar trio as the first avant-garde style of flamenco jazz was forged. Their debut recording became a landmark recording that surpassed the two million mark in sales. This is an Audiophile Must-Have.
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco (1981/2013) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco (1981/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time - 41:02 minutes | 1,79 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Friday Night In San Francisco" is widely considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums. This primarily live and unprecedented set captured at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre features the meeting of three legendary guitarists: John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Paco De Lucia. Its highlights include McLaughlin’s duet with De Lucia on the Gismonti tune, “Frevo Rasgado,” the breathtaking duet version of Chick Corea’s “Short Tales Of The Black Forest” and the studio version of McLaughlin’s “Guardian Angel.” Experience one of music’s most historic events in pristine hi-res. Absolutely essential.
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco (1981) Non-Remastered

Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco (1981)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 220 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans included
Label: Philips/Phonogram | # 800 047-2 | Time: 00:40:44
Flamenco, Jazz Fusion, Guitar Jazz

Loose and spontaneous, this (mainly) live album is a meeting of three of the greatest guitarists in the world for an acoustic summit the likes of which the guitar-playing community rarely sees. Broken up into three duo and two trio performances, Friday Night in San Francisco catches all three players at the peaks of their quite formidable powers.
Al Di Meola ‎- Casino ‎(1978) Original US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Al Di Meola ‎- Casino
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Mastered By Robert Ludwig
Label: Columbia/PC 35277 | Released: 1978 | Genre: Jazz-Rock

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
ADM's third solo album, Casino, is the last I'll consider as excellent, although it is clear his future albums will not lack good moments. Indeed, Casino even won some kind of music awards in some mag,.
Al Di Meola - Original Album Classics (2010) [5CDs] {Columbia}

Al Di Meola - Original Album Classics (2010) [5CDs] {Columbia}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 0 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 1.35GB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 539MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Rock

This is a five classic albums CD box set with the original artworked 'mini LP' CD wallets in deluxe packaging. It contains the albums Land of The Midnight Sun, Elegant Gypsy, Casino, Splendido Hotel and Electric Rendezvous.
Al Di Meola, John Mclaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco (1981) [Reissue 1999] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Al Di Meola, John Mclaughlin, Paco de Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco (1981) [Reissue 1999]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 40:56 minutes | Scans included | 1,23 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 946 MB

Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. It was described by jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky as "a musical event that could be compared to the Benny Goodman Band's performance at Carnegie Hall in 1938 … [it] may be considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums".

John McLaughlin - The Essential (2007)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 13, 2024
John McLaughlin - The Essential (2007)

John McLaughlin - The Essential (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) - 980 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 399 MB | Covers Included | 02:36:08
Genre: Jazz, Fusion | Label: Columbia | Catalog: 06831

While it would be utterly foolish to consider a two-disc set by guitarist John McLaughlin as anything other than a sample of the wildly diverse career he's enjoyed since the early '60s, it should be noted and underscored that what Legacy does with this set is to provide a solid look at not only the man's gifts but at the way he's employed them, exploited them, and let them get the best of him for the past 40-plus years.
Return to Forever - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Remastered) (2011)

Return to Forever - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Remastered) (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 583 MB
4:14:44 | Jazz-Rock, Fusion | Label: Columbia / Legacy

This chapter in the Complete Columbia Albums series showcases the end of Return to Forever's initial run that had begun on Polydor with a very different band. The best-known line-up – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and guitarist Al di Meola – appears only on the first album in this set, the iconic 1975 session Romantic Warrior, which was issued in 1976 (the rest of their recordings together are all on Polydor). According to many, it is the apotheosis and end of jazz-rock fusion proper. The lackluster Musicmagic was issued in 1977 with only Corea and Clarke remaining in the lineup – though saxophonist and flutist Joe Farrell had returned from the band's earliest incarnation in the early '70s. The last three discs in this collection are made up of Return to Forever's Live: The Complete Concert, with the same basic lineup as Musicmagic. This live album had a checkered release history in the United States. It initially appeared as a single LP simply called Live – single because it had been edited down from the two-and-a-half-hour concert.
Brand X - Studio Albums Collection 1976-1980 (6CD) Virgin Charisma Paper Sleeve Series Reissue 2006

Brand X - Studio Albums 1976-1980 (6CD)
Virgin Charisma Paper Sleeve Series Reissue 2006

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.78 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 813 Mb | Scans included
Label: Toshiba EMI Ltd/Virgin/Charisma | # VJCP-68782-68787 | Time: 04:27:33
Jazz Rock, Fusion, Art Rock, Prog-Rock

Brand X was a jazz fusion band active 1975–1980 and 1992–1999. Noted members included Phil Collins (drums), Percy Jones (bass), John Goodsall (guitar) and Robin Lumley (keyboards). In 1992, original members Goodsall and Jones formed a new trio version of Brand X, with drummer Frank Katz.