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John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 7: Stories from the Road
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Seventeen dates from coast-to-coast over twenty-three days, thousands of miles traveled by air and road, and thousands of happy fans later, guitarist John McLaughlin and his group, The 4th Dimension— keyboardist/drummer Gary Husband, bassist ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 6: Sound Checks and Closing Night
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 While audiences see the end results of a group's labors, there's much that they don't get to experience. Even for the relatively spare set-up of guitarist John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension, ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 5: Ottawa, Canada
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Good bands make due when faced with disadvantage; great bands turn disadvantage into advantage. While Ottawa's Dominion-Chalmers United Church is a beautiful venue for chamber music, or even acoustic jazz, its cathedral ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 4: Montreal, Canada
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Two and one-half weeks on the road and thirteen dates later, John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension left the United States for Canada and its final three dates of the 2007 North American tour. ...
John McLaughlin: His Goals Beyond
by A. Henkin
Fusion these days is a dirty word and fans of the genre are treated with the same smirking disdain as Trekkies or role-playing gamers. Some might posit that fusion's initial burst of energy--sometime between 1967 and 1969 depending on who you talk to--was soon co-opted by hyper-masculine “virtuosos and then, even worse, by commercial interests in ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 3: Opening Night
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7No matter how well rehearsed a group is, opening night represents greater risks than usual--even with a group like John McLaughlin and The 4th Dimension, where improvisational chance-taking and in-the- moment interaction are defining characteristics. There's ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 2: The Rehearsal
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 It may not come as a total surprise, especially from an artist with the longevity and stylistic breadth of John McLaughlin, but riding in a van with the guitarist and his new group, The ...
John McLaughlin – Jaco Pastorius – Tony Williams: Trio of Doom
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
John McLaughlin: On The Road, Part 1: The Interview
by John Kelman
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 ...
John McLaughlin/Jaco Pastorius/Tony Williams: Trio of Doom
by Doug Collette
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 ...
