Saturday Night in San Francisco is a 2022 live album released as a follow-up to the 1981 live album Friday Night in San Francisco by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucía. The album consists of seven previously unreleased recordings that were thought to be lost.[1] The album was recorded on Saturday, December 6, 1980, at Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, the night after Friday Night in San Francisco was recorded.
Andy Robson of Jazzwise found there to be "richer emphasis on De Lucia's work. Although bottom-billed, his work, especially rhythmically, cements the programme". Robson also felt that "Meeting of the Spirits" has "a more moderate pace, and crucially a range of dynamics not so prevalent in the other songs" and called the album overall "a vision from another time, another whole sound world, and of course De Lucia is sadly missed: but still a concert and a trio to savour".[2]
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