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A large crowd turned out at Confederation Park on Saturday night to hear The Al Di Meola World Sinfonia '09 play a concert of original compositions that displayed Di Meola's virtuoso guitar technique encased in Spanish style.

From left, Al Di Meola and Stanley Clarke two of the members of Return to Forever, a reunited jazz supergroup that had Confederation Park packed full of fans at the 2008 Ottawa International Jazz Festival.

"I love it when they smoke," cracked guitar wizard Al Di Meola, ribbing an overly boisterous fan as he introduced his six-piece World Sinfonia to the Ottawa Jazz Festival crowd last night.

Guitarist Al Di Meola . Fleet-fingered guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola enlivens the Nathan Phillips Square mainstage tonight, as the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival rolls onward.

Ashante Infantry Pop & Jazz Critic Nearly a decade after their last visit, eminent guitarist Al Di Meola is back with his World Sinfonia to perform at the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival tonight.

The legendary saxophonist shines on Road Shows, Vol. 1 , an endlessly surprising live album that almost never was Vancouver International Jazz Festival Al Di Meola explores tango's Italian roots Eclectic fusion comes easily to Hiromi's Sonicbloom Derek Trucks's versatile band embraces multiple styles For the October Trio, the melody's the thing ...

As a precocious teenager, Al Di Meola cut his musical teeth playing guitar with Chick Corea's pioneering electric band Return to Forever, which he joined in 1974.

Contemporary melodies, outstanding technique, passionate, romantic and inescapably infectious.

In the notes to Five Peace Band , one of Chick Corea's three new collaborative concert recordings, he writes that the music within is "humbly offered ." What a telling phrase for such an ageless musical thrill seeker.

Fusion never really went away, but thanks to the efforts of two of its greatest innovators, it's been making a powerful comeback in recent years.

Al Di Meola is, at his own admission, going soft. But it's not that at the age of 54 he's slowing down or plain losing it.

Guitarist Pat Metheny brings his artistry to the 2009 Ottawa International Jazz Festival, which runs from June 25 to July 5. Photograph by: J.F. Moreno, Agence-France Presse OTTAWA - The first and best word that the Ottawa International Jazz Festival's executive producer has for her 2009 event is "super-sized." Catherine O'Grady has a point.

Canadian guitarist Glen Drover is working on a full-length album of instrumental rock/fusion songs.

O ne of the proud pioneers of jazz/rock fusion, Chick Corea has never abandoned the oft-maligned musical genre.

The Vancouver International Jazz Festival announced part of their 2009 lineup yesterday, unveiling its B.C. Honda Dealers Series at the Centre for the Performing Arts.

Calima conveys the idea of observing a breathtaking peninsula. Its impressions of expanse, tranquility and scenery are musically presented by Diego Barber, a gifted classically trained jazz guitarist who draws inspiration from both Bach and Miles Davis, but whose music contains visions that are uniquely his own.

Ted Kurland Associates announces the addition of the legendary guitarist John McLaughlin to their roster for representation in North America.

Phil Markowitz has been on the jazz scene for several decades, though the veteran pianist is more widely known to many jazz fans as a sideman than as a leader, having worked with Chet Baker, Bob Mintzer, Dave ...

DAVID DARMANIN bears the news that the Malta Jazz Festival is to finally, after three years of its commercial farming-out, return into the State's hands.

Chick Corea could hardly have anticipated that his impromptu duet with Gary Burton at the close of a 1972 Munich jazz festival would be the start of an enduring partnership that's resulted in four ...