The Infinite Desire
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The Infinite Desire is an album by Italian-American jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 and Latin jazz
Latin jazz
Latin jazz is the general term given to jazz with Latin American rhythms.The three main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian, Cuban and Puerto Rican:# Brazilian Latin Jazz includes bossa nova...

 guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 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...

, released in 1998.

Track listing

All songs by Al Di Meola unless otherwise noted.
  1. "Beyond The Mirage" – 7:18
  2. "Shaking The Spirits" – 6:30
  3. "Vizzini" – 4:54
  4. "In My Mother's Eyes (Memory of Theresa)" – 4:41
  5. "The Infinite Desire" (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...

    , Pino Daniele
    Pino Daniele
    Pino Daniele is an Italian vocalist, composer, and musician, whose influences cover a wide number of genres, fusing pop, blues, jazz, Italian and Middle eastern music into his own unique brand of world music.-Studio albums:...

    ) – 5:26
  6. "Invention Of The Monsters" – 3:06
  7. "Istanbul" – 8:00
  8. "Azzura" – 2:55
  9. "Big Sky Azzura" – 6:07
  10. "Race With Devil on Turkish Highway" – 4:03
  11. "Valentina" – 4:44
  12. "The Infinite Desire (vocal)" (Di Meola, Daniele) – 5:27

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...

     - electric and acoustic guitars, guitar synthesizer, percussion, cymbals, marimba, harp
  • Steve Vai
    Steve Vai
    Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

     - electric guitar (10)
  • Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

     - acoustic piano solo (7)
  • Rachel Z
    Rachel Z
    Rachel Carmel Nicolazzo better known as Rachel Z, is a jazz pianist. She attended the Berklee College of Music Summer School and Manhattan School of Music pre-college, where she launched the quintet, Nardis, whilst studying with Joanne Brackeen and Richie Beirach in NYC. Later Rachel Z graduated...

     - keyboards, acoustic piano (1-5,7,10-12)
  • Mario Parmisano - acoustic piano, keyboards (6,8,9)
  • John Patitucci
    John Patitucci
    John Patitucci is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.-Biography:Patitucci is of Italian descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age ten, composing and performing at age 12, as well as the acoustic bass at...

     - electric bass, acoustic bass (1,4,5)
  • Tom Kennedy - acoustic bass (3,6,8,9)
  • Peter Erskine
    Peter Erskine
    Peter Erskine is an American jazz drummer and composer. He has enjoyed a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many famous jazz and rock artists, including Steely Dan and Weather Report...

     - drums (3,7)
  • Ernie Adams - drums (6,9)
  • Gumbi Ortiz - congas (1,7)
  • Kabuli Nitasa - violin, vocals (1)
  • Layla Francesca - vocals (2)
  • Oriana Di Meola - vocals (2)
  • Pino Daniele
    Pino Daniele
    Pino Daniele is an Italian vocalist, composer, and musician, whose influences cover a wide number of genres, fusing pop, blues, jazz, Italian and Middle eastern music into his own unique brand of world music.-Studio albums:...

    - vocal (12)
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