Jazz Articles about John McLaughlin

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John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension: Live @ Belgrade

by John Kelman
April 22, 2009

John McLaughlin and The 4th DimensionLive @ Belgrade Abstract Logix2009Fusion never really went away, but thanks to the efforts of two of its greatest innovators, it's been making a powerful comeback in recent years. Keyboard legend Chick Corea reunited with guitarist Al Di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White for a summer 2008 tour of fusion progenitor Return to Forever, that became one of the year's biggest successes, documented on ...

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John McLaughlin: Floating Point

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 16, 2008

Questo nuovo album del chitarrista inglese John McLaughlin è sicuramente una delle cose migliori che l'eroe della chitarra fusion ha realizzato negli ultimi vent'anni. Il suono è nervoso e appassionato, il contesto è stimolante, i nuovi partner (per buona parte indiani) si dimostrano assolutamente all'altezza anche in un contesto fusion e la musica scorre via impetuosa e carica di significato. McLaughlin li chiama i 'giovani leoni' della musica indiana e la loro prova è davvero confortante: i confini tradizionali delle ...

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Meeting of the Minds: The Making of Floating Point

by Ian Patterson
June 4, 2008

John McLaughlin Meeting Of the Minds: The Making of Floating Point Abstract Logix 2008

“It's the music that drives everything" says H Sridhar, chief audio engineer of John McLaughlin's outstanding new CD Floating Point (Abstractlogix, 2008), a recording session well-documented on this DVD. One cannot but agree with this observation for, despite the banks of computers and a mixing desk the size of a small battleship in the setting of the sophisticated ...

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John McLaughlin: Floating Point

by Ian Patterson
May 27, 2008

In the first five years of the '70s, English guitarist John McLaughlin put together not one, but two of the most ground-breaking, genre-bending and ultimately influential groups ever assembled. The volcanic Mahavishnu Orchestra--which burned fiercely before being consumed in its own flames--took the jazzrock idiom to heights still unmatched to this day. Shakti on the other hand, fused northern and southern Indian musical concepts with McLaughlin's unique guitar-playing idiom, creating a truly world music years before the term was coined. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...