Starred night in San Francisco

Three Guitars superstars at his best to cheer each other to ever more stunning performance high - "Friday Night in San Francisco" is one of those albums that belong in any CD collection, or more precisely: They belong in any CD player, and in such a often as possible!

What Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola and John McLaughlin let go on that memorable evening, one of the great moments in music history. One of the classical corner, a jazz, a flamenco - and just not out Hochgeschwindigkeitsbrei, as sometimes criticized, but the work is all of a piece. Their versions of hitherto relatively unknown as well as known classics believed let me regret regularly that I only have two ears.

"Friday Night in San Francisco" is impressive, with every note. The three guitar masters improvise not only (the others do also), not only have a keen sense of rhythm and melody, but you can downright ingenious dialogues hear play each other again and again the ball to - and thanks to the recording technique that each of them assigns a speaker, can understand that even in the living room. There are also nigh ingenious details - such as when Paco de Lucia in between his guitar right without reason to stop playing. That's no grandstanding, no music erstrecht become Profilneurose but exuberant joy of music. Unleashed guitars.

Already the beginning, Al di Meola "Mediterranean Sundance" is a gem. No narcissistic posturing, but a blast at the other, without the melody should perish underlying. Man thinks, "the level can not keep it!" - But think, they can! What do these three gentlemen make immediately afterwards from Chick Corea "Short Tales of the Black Forest," is nigh incredible. All 6 tracks so, and they all have a lot of soul. This album call "top notch", would brazen understatement.

My vote is not "5 star", but "Galaxy". Too bad that this classification is not provided here ...