Al di Meola News

Al Di Meola will have three consecutive concerts in Bulgaria in November. These will take place in Sofia, Bourgas and Gabrovo.

Ticket sales for this year's festival were up 35% on last year. Over 1,000 musicians from some 29 countries are playing at over 80 venues around the city in the event, which is now ranked as being in the top three jazz festivals in Europe.

Heads Up International Bassist Stanley Clarke has explored many musical genres throughout his storied career, crossing and re-crossing musical boundaries to collaborate with everyone from Art Blakey and Joe Henderson to Chick Corea and Al Di Meola .

The Garde Arts Center in New London can perhaps be forgiven if they're earning a reputation as a sort of Guitar Hero Showcase.

Bulgarian fans of Al Di Meola have a reason to rejoice as the superstar guitarist has announced his acoustic project New World Sinfonia will start with a concert here.

Three quarters of '70s jazz-rock fusion group Return to Forever a ' pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White a ' showed off their acoustic chops with a sizzling show at the Royal Conservatory of Music's new Koerner Hall.

Corea, Clarke and White :: 09.08.09 :: Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant :: Minneapolis, MN Chick Corea by Susan J. Weiand If 2008 was the year of reunions, 2009 has to be the year of spin-offs. While last year saw seminal bands including Van Halen , Return to Forever and The Police reunite, this year's answer has been fragments of super groups past.

Riddle: What comes both before and after Forever? Answer: The union of Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White.

The festival, which runs from October 23-26, will include headline acts such as sax player Pharoah Sanders, drummer Jack DeJohnette and stunning vocalist Kurt Elling.

Howard Mandel sparked a back-and-forth about Les Paul on Facebook that had Claire Daly recalling one of Paul's favorite gags: He'd sing "Happy Birthday" to some lucky audience member, and on the final "You!", he'd give that person the finger.

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday.

Jazz supergroup Return To Forever - Returns! One of the best jazz supergroups to develop out of the latter part of the 20th century only released a couple of albums during their recording sessions.

A large crowd turned out at Confederation Park on Saturday night to hear The Al Di Meola World Sinfonia '09 play a concert of original compositions that displayed Di Meola's virtuoso guitar technique encased in Spanish style.

From left, Al Di Meola and Stanley Clarke two of the members of Return to Forever, a reunited jazz supergroup that had Confederation Park packed full of fans at the 2008 Ottawa International Jazz Festival.

"I love it when they smoke," cracked guitar wizard Al Di Meola, ribbing an overly boisterous fan as he introduced his six-piece World Sinfonia to the Ottawa Jazz Festival crowd last night.

Guitarist Al Di Meola . Fleet-fingered guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola enlivens the Nathan Phillips Square mainstage tonight, as the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival rolls onward.

Ashante Infantry Pop & Jazz Critic Nearly a decade after their last visit, eminent guitarist Al Di Meola is back with his World Sinfonia to perform at the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival tonight.

The legendary saxophonist shines on Road Shows, Vol. 1 , an endlessly surprising live album that almost never was Vancouver International Jazz Festival Al Di Meola explores tango's Italian roots Eclectic fusion comes easily to Hiromi's Sonicbloom Derek Trucks's versatile band embraces multiple styles For the October Trio, the melody's the thing ...

As a precocious teenager, Al Di Meola cut his musical teeth playing guitar with Chick Corea's pioneering electric band Return to Forever, which he joined in 1974.

Contemporary melodies, outstanding technique, passionate, romantic and inescapably infectious.