Jazz Articles about John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin: Floating Point

by John Kelman
May 26, 2008

John McLaughlin Floating Point Abstract Logix 2008 While the term fusion has long been associated with the specific fusing of jazz and rock, ever-shrinking distances in the global community has led to viewing the term as much more all-encompassing. Few have been as successful as guitarist John McLaughlin at bringing together a lifetime of voracious musical interests into new contexts where the whole truly exceeds the sum of its ...

John McLaughlin / 4th Dimension: Official Pirate: The Best of the American Tour 2007

by John Kelman
January 4, 2008

With guitar icon John McLaughlin's Fall, 2007 North American tour with his new group, The 4th Dimension, a thing of the past, Official Pirate: The Best of the American Tour 2007 gives those lucky enough to catch the tour a chance to revisit and reassess. The digital download-only release also provides an opportunity for those who didn't make it to the shows to hear what they missed. While excerpts from the group's first show in Durham, North Carolina on September ...

John McLaughlin: The Essential John McLaughlin

by John Kelman
November 22, 2007

Any attempt to summarize John McLaughlin's diverse career into a mere two CDs will be open to criticism, especially by the legendary guitarist's ardent fans. The Essential John McLaughlin is not meant to be a “best of collection, or even a representation of all the various groups he's led since his professional career began in the early 1960s, coming to greater acclaim later that decade. Instead, what this compilation attempts--and succeeds--is to show just how multifaceted McLaughlin has been from ...

John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 7: Stories from the Road

by John Kelman
October 9, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Seventeen dates from coast-to-coast over twenty-three days, thousands of miles traveled by air and road, and thousands of happy fans later, guitarist John McLaughlin and his group, The 4th Dimension— keyboardist/drummer Gary Husband, bassist Hadrien Feraud and drummer Mark Mondesir—along with tour manager Christophe Deghelt and soundman Sven Hoffman, have now gone their separate ways. While they'll be ...

John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 6: Sound Checks and Closing Night

by John Kelman
October 7, 2007

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While audiences see the end results of a group's labors, there's much that they don't get to experience. Even for the relatively spare set-up of guitarist John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension, hours of work go on behind the scenes at every venue to make sure everything is as it should be when the doors open. ...

John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 5: Ottawa, Canada

by John Kelman
October 6, 2007

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Good bands make due when faced with disadvantage; great bands turn disadvantage into advantage. While Ottawa's Dominion-Chalmers United Church is a beautiful venue for chamber music, or even acoustic jazz, its cathedral ceiling and ten-second natural reverb could have spelled real trouble for John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension. Even with the ever-capable Sven Hoffman at ...

John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 4: Montreal, Canada

by John Kelman
October 4, 2007

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Two and one-half weeks on the road and thirteen dates later, John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension left the United States for Canada and its final three dates of the 2007 North American tour. The first stop was Montreal, sponsored by the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal at the beautiful two thousand-seat Théatre Maisonneuve in Place des ...