Orange and Blue

Artist: Al Di Meola
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227919726
EAN: 0081227919726
ASIN: B0000034CB

Release Date: 1994-08-16

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Tracks:

Paradiso
Chilian Pipe Song
Ta'alina Chant
Orange And Blue
If We Meet Again
Summer Country Song
If We Meet Again, Part One
If We Meet Again, Part Two
Cyprus
Theme Of The Mother Ship
Precious Little You
Casmire
On My Own

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Customer Reviews:

If I wanted Pat Matheny..........2005-03-20

This album was hyped as the follow-up to the excellent "Kiss My Axe", but, with the exception of one arrangement (Casmire), it has nothing to do with the former.

There's a reason I don't have any Pat Matheny albums...because almost all of them sound a lot like this. It's not only the worst DiMeola album I've heard, but it's is among the most boring and uninspiring jazz albums I've ever heard.

Meola's Delicate Power.......2004-01-21

Meola arrived at a point of culmination with this album. The music is consistent, deliberate, and channeled with what seems to have been a kind of mid-life confindence. He does explore new methods of instrumentation as may be expected with Meola, though certainly does not go overboard musically as do some artists during periods of high creativity. He is speaking from a very deep place, and the music represents his mastery, or display of control rather, over the guitar--and the tracts both blend and emerge as an profound expression of life's more difficult sentiments--"Until We Meet Again", 1 & 2, are good examples of this, and would be all one would need to hear to understand where he was coming from, though the album is complete in this respect--every song stands as an independent expression. This was not a pure American writing this music--he allows himself to reach back into his European memory to produce something more methodic and orchestrated--the intricacies are subtle perhaps, but precise and carefully rendered for sure.

An Excellent Master Piece.......2003-08-30

This one of my favorite, A true Master Piece.
It can hear an evolving story with plot, A Theme through out the Record. Its more of a mellow jazzy CD, Kind Of A Pat Matheny Sound. A Must for every jazz fan. Really. Great.
This One Can Really Move me To Tears. Magical.

An Excellent Master Piece.......2003-08-30

Light, airy feeling........2000-04-27

Although not as consistent as Kiss My Axe or The Infinite Desire, overall this is very good. Chilean Pipe Song definitely stands out as the best song here, but Orange and Blue and Casmir are also very good. The middle of the CD can get a bit boring at times, which is what prevents this from being 5 stars.

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