Friday Night in San Francisco
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Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...

, John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

 and Paco de Lucía
Paco de Lucía
Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez , is a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist and composer. He is considered by many to be one of the finest guitarists in the world and the greatest guitarist of the flamenco genre...

. It was recorded at The Warfield Theatre on 5 December 1980, in San Francisco.

Side one

  1. "Mediterranean Sundance
    Mediterranean Sundance
    "Mediterranean Sundance" is the third track on Elegant Gypsy , the second album by Al Di Meola who composed all of its songs. This piece and "Lady Of Rome, Sister Of Brazil", are the only two entirely acoustic tracks on the album...

    /Río Ancho
    Río Ancho
    "Río Ancho" is a Spanish flamenco guitar jazz piece. The track first featured on Paco de Lucia's 1976 album Almoraima. It combines flamenco and gypsy jazz influences and the piece is in the key of E minor and progresses to A minor, D, G, C and B7...

    " – 11:25
    • Paco de Lucía & Al Di Meola
  2. "Short Tales of the Black Forest" (Chick Corea
    Chick Corea
    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...

    ) – 8:39
    • John McLaughlin & Al Di Meola

Side two

  1. "Frevo Rasgado" – 7:54 (Egberto Gismonti
    Egberto Gismonti
    Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...

    )
    • Paco de Lucía & John McLaughlin
  2. "Fantasia Suite" (Al Di Meola) – 8:41
    • Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin & Al Di Meola
  3. "Guardian Angel" (Studio Recording) (John McLaughlin) – 4:00
    • Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin & Al Di Meola

Personnel

  • Al Di Meola
    Al Di Meola
    Al Di Meola is an acclaimed American jazz fusion and Latin guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin. With a musical career that has spanned more than three decades, he has become respected as one of the most influential guitarists in jazz to date...

     – Guitar
  • John McLaughlin
    John McLaughlin (musician)
    John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

     – Guitar
  • Paco de Lucía
    Paco de Lucía
    Paco de Lucía, born Francisco Sánchez Gómez , is a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist and composer. He is considered by many to be one of the finest guitarists in the world and the greatest guitarist of the flamenco genre...

    – Guitar
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