Jazz Articles about John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin: To the One

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 11, 2010

Con questo ottimo To the One John McLaughlin sembra ritrovare come per magia un filone aureo importante che gli consente di affondare gli artigli nella materia lavica della musica per rimettersi in gioco e per ritrovare una sorta di centralità nella evoluzione della chitarra elettrica. Molto semplicemente questa sorgente di energia è la musica di John Coltrane, una fonte di ispirazione che già era stata presente nella musica di McLaughlin sin dagli anni formativi nella natia Inghilterra, per poi riemergere ...

John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension: To The One

by Ian Patterson
April 23, 2010

John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension To The One Abstract Logix 2010 It's seems like a while since John McLaughlin recorded in such a stripped down context with a working band. Recordings such as Industrial Zen(Verve, 2006) and Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008) found the English guitarist in rich compositional form and displaying outstanding chops, but neither project led to the formation of a live band. McLaughlin has been ...

John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension: John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension: To The One

by John Kelman
April 13, 2010

After two studio albums that fell into the category of special projects--the large-casted but surprisingly cohesive Industrial Zen (Verve, 2005) and synth-laden Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008), where the iconic guitarist flipped his past concerns of playing eastern music with a western sensibility by recruiting a largely Indian group to play some very western fusion--John McLaughlin finally rights a wrong with To The One. The Miles Davis alum and Mahavishnu Orchestra founder has been touring with an exciting group, The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.