Jazz Articles about John McLaughlin

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John McLaughlin – Jaco Pastorius – Tony Williams: Trio of Doom

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 10, 2007

La storia di queste mirabolanti registrazioni è davvero emblematica e può servire come esempio della volatilità della percezione umana e in particolar modo della percezione artistica da parte dei protagonisti stessi del momento esecutivo. Nel 1979 Jaco Pastorius era all’apice della sua carriera, era solidamente inserito nel supergruppo Weather Report e, secondo il giudizio pressoché unanime di pubblico e critica, era riuscito a mantenere fede alla sua sparata iniziale che lo aveva visto presentarsi a Joe Zawinul affermando di essere ...

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John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 1: The Interview

by John Kelman
September 3, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 It's been nearly a decade since legendary guitarist John McLaughlin toured North America with an electric fusion band. With a new group, The 4th Dimension, and a new label, Abstract Logix, McLaughlin will be hitting the road in September, 2007 for a series of dates that will take him coast-to-coast in the United States, with a handful of ...

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John McLaughlin/Jaco Pastorius/Tony Williams: Trio of Doom

by Doug Collette
August 5, 2007

Trio of Doom was eminently qualified as a supergroup at the time of their formation. In 1969, drummer Tony Williams formed the prototype of jazz-rock fusion groups with his trio, Lifetime. Having entered and exited those ranks, guitarist John McLaughlin had gone on to form The Mahavishnu Orchestra, thus taking the mainstream acceptance of such music to another level altogether. Bassist Jaco Pastorius was vital in elevating Weather Report to rock band prominence when he joined that group.

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John McLaughlin/Remember Shakti: The Way of Beauty

by John Kelman
October 5, 2006

John McLaughlin/Remember Shakti The Way of Beauty Universal Music France 2006

Over the past decade guitarist John McLaughlin, other than working on his Industrial Zen (Verve, 2006) project, has devoted much of his time to a new version of his ground-breaking mid-'70s Indo-Jazz fusion group Shakti. For those unable to attend a Remember Shakti concert in recent years the only way to experience the group in performance was by purchasing Verve's 2002 Remember Shakti ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970

by A. Henkin
March 23, 2006

The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is the eighth box set edition in a series begun in 2004, moving chronologically through the trumpeter's career with John Coltrane and Gil Evans, recorded output for Columbia from 1963-68, and extensive investigations into the sessions that yielded In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. This collection, however, has less to do with this series conceptually than it does with mid to late-'90s releases highlighting live Miles (such as Live ...