Paco De Lucia - SFJAZZ Spring Season 2012

64-year old flamenco legend Paco de Lucía was largely unknown in the U.S. until the Guitar Trio’s Friday Night In San Francisco, a sensational 1981 acoustic showdown with jazz stars John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola that cemented his status as a guitar hero. He made acclaimed appearances on records by Chick Corea and others, and a thrilling reunion of the Guitar Trio led to a Verve album and world tour in 1996. But the Andalusian master maintained a steadfast commitment to flamenco as his primary art form. Landmark recordings including Siroco, Zyryab, Luzia and 2004’s masterful Cositas Buenas further reinforced de Lucía’s reputation as a peerless virtuoso who has single-handedly reinvented the flamenco vocabulary. The guitarist returns to the Bay Area for his first performance in four years.