{"id":11727,"date":"2014-02-26T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11727"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:25:08","slug":"paco-de-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/paco-de-lucia\/","title":{"rendered":"Paco de Luc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news for guitar fans: the brilliant Spanish musician <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paco_de_Luc%C3%ADa\">Paco de Luc\u00eda<\/a> just passed away <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/27\/arts\/music\/paco-de-lucia-flamenco-guitarist-dies-at-66.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;_r=0&#038;pagewanted=all\">yesterday<\/a>. While I&#8217;m not a major flamenco fan myself, I am a jazz fan &#8212; and like many others, I fell in love with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friday_Night_in_San_Francisco\"><em>Friday Night in San Francisco<\/em><\/a>, an astonishing collaboration between de Luc\u00eda and fellow guitar masters Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin. Here are the three gents showing the rest of the world how its done.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin - Mediterranian Sun Dance Live\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ADwfyxpriAM\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ADwfyxpriAM\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ADwfyxpriAM\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT6M39S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2009-12-15T02:32:56Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_ADwfyxpriAM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ADwfyxpriAM\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin - Mediterranian Sun Dance Live<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ADwfyxpriAM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ADwfyxpriAM\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin - Mediterranian Sun Dance Live\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin - Mediterranian Sun Dance Performed Live Subscribe for more music!\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>After composing this post, I just noticed I used the same tune above for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/welcome-2\/\">very first post<\/a> in this newly-constituted blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news for guitar fans: the brilliant Spanish musician Paco de Luc\u00eda just passed away yesterday. While I&#8217;m not a major flamenco fan myself, I am a jazz fan &#8212; and like many others, I fell in love with Friday Night in San Francisco, an astonishing collaboration between de Luc\u00eda and fellow guitar masters Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11730,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}