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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,324 posts) Fri Sep 29, 2023, 06:56 PM Sep 2023

Guitarist Al Di Meola Thanks Fans for Support After Suffering Heart Attack Onstage: 'My Deepest Grat

Best known for his work in jazz and world music, the 69-year-old performer is in stable condition

Al Di Meola, the renowned American guitarist best known for his work in jazz fusion and world music, is in stable condition after he suffered a heart attack onstage during a concert in Romania, a hospital spokesperson told the Associated Press Thursday.

The news outlet reported that the musician, 69, was performing a show in Bucharest Wednesday evening. A photographer, Dragos Cristescu, who was present at the concert, said that he saw Di Meola grab his chest before experiencing difficulty walking off the stage.

Di Meola's band members played on for several minutes before the show was called off, the photographer told the AP.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/american-guitarist-al-di-meola-160318985.html

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Guitarist Al Di Meola Thanks Fans for Support After Suffering Heart Attack Onstage: 'My Deepest Grat (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2023 OP

Hadn't Heard About This! ProfessorGAC Sep 2023 #1

from his early years and Return to Forever lapfog_1 Sep 2023 #2

With Lenny White on drums Lemonwurst Sep 2023 #3

ProfessorGAC

(69,888 posts)

1. Hadn't Heard About This!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Sep 29, 2023, 07:41 PM

Sep 2023

Hope he gets well soon.
Made me think of this song, one of my faves by AL.
The whole band is killer!.

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lapfog_1

(30,158 posts)

2. from his early years and Return to Forever

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Sep 29, 2023, 07:44 PM

Sep 2023

Chick Corea, Al, and Stanley Clark

Lemonwurst

(327 posts)

3. With Lenny White on drums

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 29, 2023, 08:55 PM

Sep 2023

This was the quintessential Return To Forever that made what we now call fusion (originally jazz-rock) a definably distinct genre of modern music. Though not for everyone, fusion had a wonderful influence on other musicians of that era (i.e. Jeff Beck’s two masterpiece albums Blow By Blow and Wired), and despite huge advances in music technology, that version of Return To Forever still comes off as new and unique.

We have tickets to an Al Dimeola show for mid-November, and will be keeping an eye out for updates that might occur if his health remains a concern.

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