Friday Night In San Francisco

£75.00

Friday Night In San Francisco. Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45rpm 2LP.

1 in stock (can be backordered)

SKU: IMXLP6031-45 Categories: ,

Friday Night In San Francisco

Friday Night In San Francisco

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Luca

Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analogue master tapes

• Numbered Limited Edition 100% Analogue 180-gram vinyl LP
• Limited to only 3,000 numbered copies
• Plated and pressed at RTI, supervised by Rick Hashimoto

Everything you’ve loved about this iconic, reference-defining recording is laid bare, reproduced with stunning fidelity and nuance.

Featuring all-analogue mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and an exclusive foil-stamped jacket for this very special release.

This Di Meola-McLaughlin-De Lucia classic could only come from the LP fetishists at Impex Records.

Listen as Impex’s 180-gram vinyl, spinning at 45 revolutions per minute, reveals everything to your hungry, deep-listening ears. Ready to redefine definitive again.

Friday Night In San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia.

It was described by jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky as “a musical event that could be compared to the Benny Goodman Band’s performance at Carnegie Hall in 1938…[it] may be considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums.

All the tracks except “Guardian Angel” were recorded live at The Warfield Theatre on December 5, 1980 in San Francisco.

This debut recording on Columbia Records became a landmark recording that surpassed the two million mark in sales. The three virtuosos in the Trio toured together from 1980 through 1983.

Paco de Lucia was a Spanish flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.

A leading proponent of the New Flamenco style, he helped legitimise flamenco among the establishment in Spain, and was one of the first flamenco guitarists to have successfully crossed over into other genres of music such as classical and jazz.

De Lucia was noted for his fast and fluent finger style runs. His collaborations with guitarists John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola saw him gain wider popularity outside his native Spain.

Al Di Meola is an acclaimed jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist, composer, and record producer.

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.

Albums such as Friday Night In San Francisco have earned him both artistic and commercial success with a solid fan base throughout the world.

A prolific composer and prodigious six-string talent, Di Meola has amassed over 20 albums as a leader while collaborating on a dozen or so others.

John McLaughlin is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer.

His music includes many genres of jazz and rock, which he coupled with an interest in Indian classical music to become one of the pioneering figures in fusion.

In 2010, guitarist Jeff Beck called him “the best guitarist alive.”

In 2003, McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

After contributing to several key British groups of the early sixties and making his first solo record, he moved to the U.S. where he played with Tony Williams’ group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric-jazz fusion albums:

In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute To Jack Johnson and On The Corner.

Track List: Friday Night In San Francisco

Side A:
1. Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho

Side B:
1. Short Tales of the Black Forest

Side C:
1. Frevo Rasgado

Side D:
1. Fantasia Suite
2. Guardian Angel

Brand

Impex Records

Impex Records

What They Do

You live for this. The anticipation of pulling open the heavy-plastic outer sleeve. The sensation of removing the disc from its heavy-board, tip-on jacket. The heft of the 180-gram vinyl disc sliding into your hand. The satisfaction of the perfectly flat LP becoming one with the platter. The astonishment at the record’s silence surface. And then, that sound – the brilliant, vivid fidelity – and the euphoric emotion of being there at the creation: inside hallowed recording spaces such as Columbia’s 30th Street Studio, Capitol Studio A in Hollywood, or Abbey Road in London. From the moment the stylus hits the groove, you’re enveloped by amazing performances captured in extraordinary, life-like sound. Music with unprecedented transparency, immediacy and richness of tone. Pristine sound that comes as close to the original analog master tape as is humanly possible. Deep feelings abound as you experience the impeccable craftsmanship of an IMPEX RECORDS audio disc. This is the reward you’ve earned for a deep-seated love of music, your commitment to superior sound and the countless hours and prodigious capital you’ve invested in building a playback system that can transport you to your musical Nirvana. At IMPEX RECORDS, we make 180-gram LPs, 24K Gold CDs and Super Audio Compact Discs of uncompromising quality: exceptional products designed for discriminating listeners with a passion for music and sound. Our love for music, and respect for the art and science of sound recording, guides and informs every decision we make. Our dedication leads to obsessing over every detail of the craft for one purpose: to put you front-row center in the studio, club or concert hall to encounter great music exactly as it was recorded, with the highest of fidelity

You may also like…