''Elegant Gypsy'' is the second album by American

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

guitarist

Al Di Meola Albert Laurence Di Meola (born July 22, 1954) is an American guitarist. Known for his works in jazz fusion and world music, he began his career as a guitarist of the group Return to Forever in 1974. Between the 1970s and 1980s, albums such as ' ...

. It was released in 1977 by Columbia Records.

Background

''Elegant Gypsy'' was a follow-up album to Di Meola's debut release, '' Land of the Midnight Sun''. The distinctive music on the album is a speedy fusion of jazz and rock, with lightning-fast guitar riffs intermixed with lyrical acoustical passages. The songs include explorations of Latin music themes, including acoustic genres like flamenco.Review in Ultimate-guitar.com
/ref> ''Elegant Gypsy'' won an annual award for ''Best Guitar Album'' in '' Guitar Player Magazine''.

Track listing

All songs by Al Di Meola unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

– guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion * Paco de Lucía – guitar *

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– keyboards * Barry Miles – keyboards * Anthony Jackson – bass guitar * Steve Gadd – drums *

Lenny White Leonard "Lenny" White III (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer who was a member of the band Return to Forever led by Chick Corea in the 1970s. White has been called "one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion". He has won ...

– drums * Mingo Lewis – congas, synthesizers, organ, percussion

Chart performance

References

1977 albums Al Di Meola albums Columbia Records albums {{1970s-jazz-album-stub