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Di Meola Plays Piazzolla
Studio album by Al Di Meola
Released	November 5, 1996
Studio	The Hit Factory, Skyline Studios and The Tracking Zone (New York City, New York) Sound Chamber Recorders (North Hollywood, California)
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	59:54
Label	Mesa/Bluemoon
Producer	Al Di Meola Hernan Romero (Tracks 1 & 5)
Al Di Meola chronology
Orange and Blue (1994) Di Meola Plays Piazzolla (1996) The Infinite Desire (1998)

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Di Meola Plays Piazzolla is an album by Al Di Meola which is a tribute to Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla. Eight of the ten songs were written by Piazzolla. Di Meola is accompanied by percussionist Arto Tuncboyacian and Dino Saluzzi, who plays bandoneon. Vince Mendoza provided some of the string arrangements.

Track listing

All songs by Ástor Piazzolla except where noted.

1. "Oblivión" – 6:01
2. "Café 1930" – 6:13
3. "Tango Suite, Pt. I" – 8:49
4. "Tango Suite, Pt. III" – 8:50
5. "Verano Reflections" (Piazzolla, Di Meola) – 4:10
6. "Night Club 1960" – 5:44
7. "Tango II" – 5:33
8. "Bordel 1900" – 4:30
9. "Milonga del Angel" – 3:44
10. "Last Tango for Astor" (Di Meola) – 6:20

Personnel

• Al Di Meola – guitars (1, 2, 5-9), all guitar parts (1), percussion (1, 5), orchestration (1, 5, 10), arrangements (1-6, 8, 10), acoustic guitars (3, 4, 10), pandean pipe (5), voice (5), guitar solo (9)
• Spyros Poulos – programming (1, 5)
• Dino Saluzzi – bandoneon (2-4, 7, 8, 10)
• Hernan Romero – keyboards (5), charango (5), voice (5, 8)
• Chris Carrington – guitars (2, 6), classical guitar (3, 4, 10)
• Arto Tunçboyacıyan – percussion (3, 4, 6, 8, 10), voice (3, 4, 10)
• Gumbi Ortiz – percussion (3, 4, 10), congas (3, 4, 10)
• Vince Mendoza – string arrangements (2, 6, 8)

Production

• Al Di Meola – producer
• Hernan Romero – co-producer (1, 5)
• David Baker – assistant producer (1), engineer (1, 3-5)
• Roy Hendrickson – engineer (2, 6-9)
• Dan Garcia – string engineer (2), engineer (6, 8)
• Scott Ansell – engineer (10)
• Joe Ferla – engineer (10)
• Rich Tozzoli – assistant engineer (1, 5)
• Sean Haines – assistant engineer (3, 4, 6-9)
• Michael Nuceder – assistant engineer (3, 4)
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) and Sound On Sound (New York, NY)
• Richard Evans – art direction, design, photography
• Richard Haughton – photos of Al Di Meola
• Camilla Van Zuylen – photo of Astor Piazzolla

References

1. Henderson, Alex. "Di Meola Plays Piazzolla". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
2. Ferguson, Jim (1 April 1997). "Al Di Meola: Di Meola Plays Piazzolla". JazzTimes. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
3. "Al DiMeola "DiMeola Plays Piazzolla" | Guitar Nine". www.guitar9.com. Retrieved 14 December 2018.

• 1996 albums
• Al Di Meola albums
• Atlantic Records albums