Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia - Saturday Night In San Francisco

2022

Jazz writer Walter Kolovsky has said that Friday Night In San Francisco "may be the most influential of all acoustic guitar albums." LPs of it have been a demonstration staple on turntables around the world for over 40 years. To celebrate the lasting impact of this singular album and the legendary concert that it represents, Impex Records is proud to announce the long-awaited follow up: Saturday Night In San Francisco.

Working with hours of original 16-track live session tapes, Al Di Meola and his team have brilliantly curated this musical tour-de-force, bringing to life for the first time on LP, SACD-Hybrid and CD the explosively virtuosic final performance of Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco De Lucia at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, December 6, 1980. In the exclusive essay by music historian Charles L. Granata, Di Meola says of that final night: "It's exciting because the audience was right there with us, savoring every single note of music. And, we were ripping. It was crazy good!"

Impex worked carefully with Di Meola, mixing engineer Roy Hendrickson (SPIN Studio), and mastering engineer Bernie Grundman to recreate the magic of Friday Night In San Francisco so these never-before-released solos and trios burst out of your system with striking clarity, dynamics and technical brilliance. "Crazy good," indeed.

Features:
Super Audio CD
SACD Stereo SACD Layer
This Hybrid SACD contains an HDCD encoded Stereo CD layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players.
Never before released
Assembled from the original 16-track analog live session tapes by Al Di Meola with engineers Katsu Naito & Roy Hendrickson
    
Mastered from analog tapes by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Deluxe new packaging with never-before-seen photos
Exclusive essay by Charles L. Granata feat. new interviews with Al Di Meola & original recording engineer Tim Pinch

Musicians:
Al Di Meola     guitar
John McLaughlin     guitar
Paco De Lucia     guitar

Selections

    Bill Graham Introduction
    Splendido Sundance
    One Word
    Trilogy Suite
    Monasterio de Sal
    El Pañuelo
    Meeting Of The Spirits
    Soniquete (SACD Bonus Track)