h33t - Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola - The Guitar Trio 1996 [rockbox]

Paco de Lucia

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Paco de Lucia, one of the greatest living guitarist in the world, was born Francisco Sanchez Gomez in Algeciras, a city in the province of Cadiz, in the Southernmost tip of Spain on December 21st, 1947. His stage name is an homage to his mother Lucia Gomez.

The training ground for a flamenco guitarist, de Lucia once said, "is the music around you, made by people you see, the people you make music with. You learn it from your family, from your friends, in la juerga (the party) drinking. And then you work on technique. Guitarists do not need to study. And, as it is with any music, the great ones will spend some time working with the young players who show special talent. You must understand that a Gypsy's life is a life of anarchy. That is a reason why the way of flamenco music is a way without discipline as you know it. We don't try to organize things with our minds, we don't go to school to find out. We just live........ music is everywhere in our lives."

John McLaughlin

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Born January 4, 1942, in Yorkshire, England; mother was concert violinist. Addresses: Record company--Verve Records, Worldwide Plaza, 825 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10019.

Musician magazine, in a 1993 survey of "The 100 Great Guitarists of the 20th Century," referred to John McLaughlin as "the mystic credited with inventing real fusion." The guitarist himself--whose work has embraced jazz, rock, blues, Indian music, and flamenco, among other styles--has long disdained the label. "I'm not trying to make any kind of fusion--it just happens that way," he protested to Guitar Player. Yet McLaughlin's fearless hybridization of musical genres blazed a trail for other musicians and demonstrated a set of possibilities that spawned the eclectic jazz-rock movement that came to be known as "fusion."

McLaughlin has always been far too restless to dwell in any musical territory for long. From his early work with the Graham Bond Organization to his innovative excursions with jazz legend Miles Davis to his increasingly ambitious endeavors with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, and his own trio as well as countless brief collaborations, McLaughlin has pursued his own musical development with an openly spiritual outlook. "My work in music is a work of the spirit," he proclaimed in a Down Beat interview. "It's a development of my spirit, and the development of myself as a human being."

Al Di Meola

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Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on July 22, 1954, Di Meola grew up with the music of The Ventures, The Beatles and Elvis Presley. Drums were his first instrument, but by age eight he had switched to guitar. By his early teens, Al was already an accomplished player, though he felt somewhat ostracized from the local clique of musicians. "In the '60s, if you didn't play like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, you weren't accepted," he recalls of his high school years in Bergenfield, New Jersey. "So I was never really accepted by that group of so-called friends in Bergenfield because they didn't know what to make of my style. Even though I wanted to learn Beatles and Ventures music when I began taking lessons, my teacher (Bob Aslanian) also made me learn jazz and bossa nova and a little classical, so I had all this technique that my friends couldn't understand. It never fit the kind of music that they were playing. They were interested in my technique but at the same time they were jealous of it."

A big influence on his music outlook during his formative years was the burgeoning hybrid of rock and jazz that came to be known as fusion music. Guitarist Larry Coryell, whom Al later dubbed 'The Father of Fusion,' became a particular focus of interest. "I used to ride the bus from New Jersey to see him play at little clubs in Greenwich Village," he recalls. "Wherever he was playing, I'd be there."

The Guitar Trio - 1996

1. La Estiba
2. Beyond The Mirage
3. Midsummer Night
4. Manha De Carnaval
5. Letter From India
6. Espiritu
7. Le Monastère Dans Les Montagnes
8. Azzura
9. Cardeosa

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