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John McLaughlin's "Floating Point" Receives Grammy Nomination
(Los Angeles, CA) - The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Organization has announced that guitarist John McLaughlin's Floating Point (2008 Abstract Logix Records) has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Winners will be announced on February 8, 2009. Floating Point was recorded in India for Abstract Logix Records and MediaStarz. ...
Claude Pauly: Mind Meets Matter
by Ian Patterson
Legions of saxophonists were mesmerized by the sound of Lester Young and Charlie Parker and to this day, John Coltrane; for trumpeters, Miles Davis continues to ensnare many, and for fusion guitarists John McLaughlin and Allan Holdsworth continue to fascinate. As a bright light does moths, they are sucked in, and if not careful, their own ...
Claude Pauly: Mind Meets Matter
by John Kelman
What do you get when you combine the heavy metal bebop lines of Scott Henderson, the inestimable chops of Frank Gambale, the close harmonic voicings of Allan Holdsworth, the occasional rough edges of John McLaughlin and a tinge of Latin affect? Guitarist Claude Pauly, on his debut, Mind Meets Matter, comes close to answering that question, ...
Rare Jazz Films Restored
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
The Los Angeles Museum of Films One Watches In Order to Make Themselves Feel Intellectually Superior (or LAMFO, to its friends) will be unveiling a series of long-forgotten jazz-related films sure to please both jazz snobs and film snobs, if such a thing is possible. The Swing Forward, Fall Back Series follows in the tradition of ...
Kenny Garrett: Back To The Future
by Jason Crane
Detroit's Kenny Garrett is a restless man. Before he'd even released his 2006 Nonesuch album Beyond The Wall, he'd already moved on to a different band with a completely different repertoire. And it's always been like that for Garrett, who is constantly searching for new territory to mine and new corners of the world--both geographical and ...
John McLaughlin: Floating Point
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Meeting of the Minds: The Making of Floating Point
by Ian Patterson
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 ...
John McLaughlin: Floating Point
by Ian Patterson
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 ...
