“There’s so much good and there’s some very weird experiences,” Al Di Meola told Prog in 2018 as he looked back on his career. It had begun when he was 20 with a call-up to Chick Corea’s band Return To Forever in 1974, which quickly cast Di Meola as a pioneer of fusion music.
“One of the positive experiences was Chick’s idea for all of us to go and do our own solo records,” he recalled. “I was like, ‘Really? Why do you want to do that?’ I wasn’t really thinking in terms of writing or being a composer, but everybody else was very enthusiastic about doing their own record.
