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Paco de Lucía

Rio Ancho

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for other uses see Río Ancho (disambiguation) Río Ancho is a Spanish flamenco guitar jazz piece. The track first featured on Paco de Lucia’s 1976 album Almoraima. It combines flamenco and gypsy jazz influences and the piece is in the key of E minor and progresses to A minor, D, G, C and B7. The original performances of the song had notable flute solos towards the end of the piece, reminiscent of classic Spanish gypsy music with trumpets. In 1980, Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola collaborated and produced an ensemble track composed of Di Meola’s Mediterranean Sundance taken from his 1977 album Elegant Gypsy with Río Ancho. It was performed live in San Francisco on December 5, 1980 and the set was released by Columbia Records as simply Friday Night in San Francisco. The collaborative... Read on...

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