Winter Nights (album)

Winter Nights
Studio album by Al Di Meola
Released	14 October 1999
Genre	Jazz
Length	50:53
Label	Telarc
Producer	Al Di Meola
Al Di Meola chronology
The Infinite Desire (1998) Winter Nights (1999) World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion (2000)

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Winter Nights is a 1999 album by Italian-American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist Al Di Meola. The album contains a collection of Christmas songs and is Al Di Meola's first so-called Christmas album.

Track listing

1. "Zima" (Al di Meola) – 4:05
2. "Carol of the Bells" – 4:11
3. "Winterlude Duet No. 1" (Roman Hrynkiv, Al di Meola) – 1:27
4. "Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 2:46
5. "Mercy Street" (Peter Gabriel) – 4:52
6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:32
7. "Winterlude No. 2" (Roman Hrynkiv) – 0:51
8. "Midwinter Nights" (Al di Meola) – 4:50
9. "Scarborough Fair" (Traditional) – 4:36
10. "Winterlude No. 3" (Roman Hrynkiv) – 0:47
11. "The First Noel" (William Sandys) – 3:13
12. "Inverno" (Al di Meola) – 5:38
13. "First Snow" (Al di Meola) – 2:43
14. "Winterlude No. 4" (Al di Meola) – 1:31
15. "Ave Maria" (Bach/Gounod) – 4:51

Personnel

Musicians

• Al Di Meola – cajon, dumbek, acoustic guitar, harp, keyboards, mixing, percussion, tambur
• Roman Hrynkiv – bandura
• Hernan Romero – acoustic guitar, mixing, percussion, shaker

Other credits

• Anilda Carrasquillo – art direction, design
• Thoms Macko – design
• Spyros Poulos – digital editing, engineer, mixing
• Rich Tozzoli – engineer, mixing
• Robert Woods – executive producer

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