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Music from Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Stanley Clarke

by Len Davis
The '70s with Mahavishnu Orchestra, return to Forever and Miles Davis

by Len Davis
A visit to the '70s with Return To Forever, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Soft Machine, Brand X, Jeff Beck and Miles Davis. Playlist Return To Forever Celebration Suite" from No Mystery (Polydor) 00:00 Billy Cobham Stratus" from Spectrum (Atlantic) 07:59 The Mahavishnu Orchestra Noonward Race" from The Inner Mounting Flame (CBS)16:03 Soft Machine Gesoireut Jam" from The Dutch Lesson (Cuneiform) 24:01 Brand X Miserable Virgin" from Missing Period (Outer Music) 32:00 Jeff Beck Blue Wind" from Wired (Epic) ...
Continue ReadingTop Jazz-Rock Fusion Recordings

by Douglas Groothuis
The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from extinction. Sometime in the 1960s, rock had eclipsed jazz in popularity in America, and many jazz aficionados were none too happy about that. Even folk had gone electric when Bob Dylan plugged in his guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. At that, some shouted ...
Continue ReadingMahavishnu Orchestra: Apocalypse

by Julian Derry
Well, there's not much to say about the new release of Apocalypse. Well, not as much as many Mahavishnu fans had hoped; rumours of a long awaited and much needed remastering of this legendary album, making the rounds of the mailing lists were alas, premature. So what is this CD? Answer: it's the exact same, level-for-level digital copy as Sony (né Columbia)'s previous release--slapping the audio files into your favourite audio comparison remastering detection software, and positioning the track profiles ...
Continue ReadingWalter Kolosky: Power, Beauty and Passion - The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra

by Ian Patterson
Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra Walter Kolosky Pages: 325 ISBN:978-0-9761016-8-0 Self-published e-book 2012 Walter Kolosky's Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra (Abstract Logix Books, 2005) now finds its way into e-book format, which is good news for trees as well as for die-hard Mahavishnu Orchestra fans. In the interval since publication of the original book, Kolosky has conducted further interviews with ...
Continue ReadingMahavishnu Orchestra: Live at Montreux 1984/1974

by John Kelman
With the completion of legendary guitarist John McLaughlin's 2007 tour with his new group The 4th Dimension--his first fusion tour in North America in nearly a decade, there are plenty of opportunities to reexamine the tour in the context of earlier groups. While for some, the litmus test will always be his first, groundbreaking Mahavishnu Orchestra that recorded the classic The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia, 1971), the truth is that McLaughlin has continued to evolve in a myriad of contexts. ...
Continue ReadingPower, Passion And Beauty: The Story Of The Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra

by Marco Anderson
Power, Passion And Beauty: The Story Of The Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra Walter Kolosky Paperback; 313 pages ISBN 0-9761016-2-9 Abstract Logix Books 2005
Before the corporate whitewash of the disco plague obliterated a golden age of musical creativity, there was a time when artists with a musical vision, fired by spiritual fervour, could reach a global audience with the full backing of a multi national record label.
Fuelled by previously unheard ...
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