Friday Night in San Francisco

Friday Night In San Francisco
Live album by
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía
Released1981
RecordedDecember 5, 1980
("Guardian Angel" recorded May 1981 at Minot Sound, White Plains, New York)
VenueThe Warfield, San Francisco, California
Genre
Length40:39
LabelPhilips
Producer
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía chronology
Friday Night In San Francisco
(1981) 		Passion, Grace and Fire
(1983)
John McLaughlin chronology
Belo Horizonte
(1981) 		Friday Night in San Francisco
(1981) 		Music Spoken Here
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Friday Night in San Francisco is a 1981 live album by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. It was described by jazz author and critic Walter Kolosky as "a musical event that could be compared to the Benny Goodman Band's performance at Carnegie Hall in 1938 … [it] may be considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums".[4]

All the tracks except "Guardian Angel" were recorded live at the Warfield Theatre on 5 December 1980, in San Francisco; "Guardian Angel" was recorded at Minot Sound, in White Plains, New York.

  1. ^ Gioffre, Daniel. "Friday Night in San Francisco - Al di Meola | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 61. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 977. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Kolosky, Walter (2002). "John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia: Friday Night in San Francisco (1981)". Retrieved 7 October 2022.