Elegant Gypsy

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:37:00
Personnel: Al Di Meola (electric guitar); Paco de Lucia (guitar); Barry Miles (piano, electric piano); Jan Hammer (electric piano, synthesizer); Mingo Lewis (organ, synthesizer, congas, percussion); Anthony Jackson (bass guitar); Lenny White, Steve Gadd (drums). Director: Al Di Meola. Arranger: Al Di Meola. DiMeola made his name as a member of Chick Corea's groundbreaking fusion supergroup Return To Forever, but it wasn't long before he embarked on a solo career, of which this album is the second installment. DiMeola takes the electric, rock-inflected jazz approach of John McLaughlin and multiplies it exponentially, upping both the wattage and the speed. He offers a few lyrical acoustic passages (foreshadowing his later collaborations with Paco DeLucia [who guests here] and McLaughlin), but the focus of ELEGANT GYPSY is DiMeola's blistering, mile-a-minute electric fretwork. He spins out endless lines of death-defying sixteenth notes, sometimes in tandem with synth wizard Jan Hammer, over slightly funky rhythms that bear a hint of Latin influence. His thick, overdriven tone and superhuman abilities, displayed to their fullest here, make the Eddie Van Halens of the world look like underachievers.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)