Tirami Su 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...

 and the Al Di Meola Project, released in 1987. Musicians on this album include long time associate of Al Di Meola, Anthony Jackson on bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, Japanese-American pianist Kei Akagi

Kei Akagi

is a Japanese American jazz pianist most known as a sideman. In particular he is known for his work with the Airto Moreira/Flora Purim group and in Miles Davis's band in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

, Tommy Brechtlein on drums

Drum kit

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, Minu Cinelu on percussion

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

 Jose Renato on vocals and acoustic bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

 player Harvie S.

Track listing

All songs by Al Di Meola unless otherwise noted.

1. "Beijing Demons" – 6:22
2. "Arabella" – 7:08
3. "Smile from a Stranger" – 5:40
4. "Rhapsody of Fire" – 5:03
5. "Song to the Pharaoh Kings" (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...
   
   ) – 8:44
6. "Andonea" – 3:01
7. "Maraba (Al Di Meola, Clara Sandroni) – 5:18
8. "Song with a View" – 6:20
9. "Tirami Su, Part 1" – 1:10

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
• Anthony Jackson – bass guitar
• Kei Akagi
  Kei Akagi
  is a Japanese American jazz pianist most known as a sideman. In particular he is known for his work with the Airto Moreira/Flora Purim group and in Miles Davis's band in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  
   – keyboards
• Tom Brechtlein – drums
• Mino Cinelu
  Mino Cinelu
  Mino Cinelu is a French musician. He plays multiple instruments. He is a composer, programmer and producer; and is most often associated primarily for his work as a jazz percussionist.-Biography:Cinelu was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine...
  
   – percussion
• Jose Renato – vocals
• Harvie S – bass

Production notes

• Produced by Al Di Meola
• Engineered by Dennis McKay
• Executive Producer - Nancy Gaelen