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Record ID
1791
Artist
Al Di Meola
Title
Plays Piazzolla
Field / Genre
Jazz
Year Recorded
1990
Label
Atlantic
Pressing
Am
Rating
***
Discs
1
Media
CD
Date Bought
16 Mar 2006
Cost
¤0.00
Cover Name
—
Review
<p>Latin music has been a strong influence on Al DiMeola since his early years, and in the '90s, he paid especially close attention to the music of Argentina. A welcome addition to his already impressive catalogue, DiMeola Plays Piazzola pays homage to the late Argentinean tango master Astor Piazzolla (whose distinctive and very poetic brand of romanticism was considered quite daring and radical in Argentina). It would have been easy for an artist to allow his own personality to become obscured when saluting Piazzola's legacy, but the charismatic DiMeola is too great an improvisor to let that happen. Though his reverence for Piazzola comes through loud and clear on these haunting classics, there's no mistaking the fact that this is very much an Al DiMeola project.</p>— <b>Alex Henderson</b>