I always thought that Paco de Lucia and Al di Meola do not really match well. McLaughlin, as a leader of the trio, in most cases smoothed things out and bound them together. Find their performance in Germany in the year 1981, I guess. They perform somewhere in the open, another concert in Berlin or wherever was not that good.
Flamenco is an Andalusian art but it is a fusion of a few musical traditions, including Middle Eastern. Until 19th century it was almost always just singing and dancing. If I remember right, Nino Ricardo and Ramon Montoya developed modern flamenco guitar as we know it. Paco followed the school of Nino Ricardo. I strongly prefer it to all others, don't like Sabicas, for example.
I understand preference for traditional American jazz, I myself prefer American blues. Hell, maybe I am partly black. Don't look it, though.
Flamenco is an Andalusian art but it is a fusion of a few musical traditions, including Middle Eastern. Until 19th century it was almost always just singing and dancing. If I remember right, Nino Ricardo and Ramon Montoya developed modern flamenco guitar as we know it. Paco followed the school of Nino Ricardo. I strongly prefer it to all others, don't like Sabicas, for example.
I understand preference for traditional American jazz, I myself prefer American blues. Hell, maybe I am partly black. Don't look it, though.