Joe Diorio, a guitarist whose soulful playing on albums by Sonny Stitt and Eddie Harris gave those recordings a special feel and whose pensive, ringing tones and polytextures on solo albums influenced fusion guitarists, died on February 2. He was 85.
Diorio grew up in Westbury, Ct., and learned to play guitar at a local music school in the 1950s. Gigging…
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