Spanish Guitar music

Xiekitchen,
Splendido Hotel is one of my favorite Al Dimeola's albums. All the pressings on Columbia you will hear some of the best guitar work ever. His work on Return to Forever, along with three other superstars rivals none. Plenty of vinyl copies out there to. Its to bad I heard him say that the Fusion Jazz of the 70s will never come back.

I asked this question last year and received a number of excellent responses which add to those listed above.

The thread is....

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1106276700&openusid&zzJohnrob&4&5#Johnrob

BTW, I found that I enjoyed John William's recordings. My favorite of the several tha I have is titled "Spanish Guitar Music (Sony).

John

I just noticed that someone else sent the link - my mistake.

I got to see both Jesse Cook at the Banff Centre last year - excellent live concert with significant middle eastern influence. I downloaded his CD - Gravity - to my MP3 player and have been downhill and x-country skiing to his music all winter. Excellent background activity music.

Oscar Lopez was at the Canmore Folk Festival last summer. His playing wooed the audience - much fun.

John

I agree with the recommendation for Friday Night in San Francisco - excellent album. Paco de Lucia is also another essential listen - a genius.

check out Govi. "Havana Sunset: The Best of Govi".
very easy to listen to.

Also, a more serious CD, would be the
"The Guitar Trio - John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola". Awesome, but a little complicated if you are not used to that kind of music, which is a mix of avantgarde jazz and spanish guitar. Same applies to "Friday Night at San Francisco" that was recommended before. Same three guys, great cd.