Jazz Articles about John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin: Industrial Zen

by Walter Kolosky
August 8, 2006

Industrial Zen is an amalgam of past lives, current beats and digital pastiches that finds John McLaughlin creating yet another musical mosaic to hang on his crowded walls. This fresh, vital and most importantly, relevant music will set your head and feet in motion. “For Jaco is a fitting tribute. McLaughlin clearly has Pastorius on his mind these days, after just completing the sound mix of the Trio of Doom (Pastorius, McLaughlin and Tony Williams) tapes from ...

John McLaughlin: Industrial Zen

by John Kelman
July 25, 2006

It's been six years since John McLaughlin released a flat-out fusion record, but the guitar icon has been talking about Industrial Zen for some time, generating considerable buzz in the process. And it's been worth the wait. The Promise (Verve, 1995), McLaughlin's last recording with a large cast, rather than a fixed ensemble, was an inconsistent effort. While it revealed his diverse musical interests, it was more a collection of disparate pieces than a unified statement. The thrilling and altogether ...

Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin

by John Kelman
January 28, 2005

Paul Stump Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin SAF Publishing ISBN: 0-04-679124-1 1999

Published in 1999, Paul Stump's Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin is aptly named. While there is a certain degree of biographical chronology to the book, it is more of an assessment of McLaughlin's recorded work, from his earliest day as a session player in London through later triumphs with his own projects.

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Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson

by Paul Olson
January 9, 2005

Well, here it is, finally: the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson, newly remastered and affordably available to those unwilling or unable to pay for the five-disc Complete Jack Johnson Sessions, which has been available since 2003. That's been Columbia/Legacy's modus operandi for Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, and now Jack Johnson: put out the box set and after a suitable, cash-draining interval, cough up the remastered album alone.Jack Johnson 's re-release (more accurately at ...

John McLaughlin: This is the Way I Do It

by Marco Anderson
September 19, 2004

John McLaughlin This Is The Way I Do It The Ultimate Guitar Workshop On Improvisation Mediastarz 2004

In the hands of all but a few other guitarists, this title would be a self-aggrandisement on a major scale (no pun intended). However, being the distilled sum of knowledge gained by surely the greatest living jazz guitarist of the age throughout more than fifty years of wielding his mighty axe, ...

John McLaughlin: This Is The Way I Do It

by Walter Kolosky
August 17, 2004

John McLaughlin This Is The Way I Do It The Ultimate Guitar Workshop On Improvisation Mediastarz 2004

Leave it to John McLaughlin to revolutionize how guitar improvisation is taught to the masses. One gets the sense that if DVD technology had not come around, McLaughlin would have invented it himself to find the perfect medium to impart his great knowledge. But it is true, that until the advent of this ...

John McLaughlin: Belo Horizonte

by John Kelman
July 11, 2004

The '80s were not especially great years for guitarist John McLaughlin. Following his groundbreaking late '60s and '70s work with Miles Davis, various incarnations of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and his genre-bending group Shakti, it's almost as if he disappeared from the public eye for a decade, before reappearing in strong form in '90 with Live at the Royal Festival Hall , the first of many recordings that returned him to a deserved position of prominence. But the truth is that ...