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Article: Interview

Vlatko Stefanovski: Until I Satisfy My Artistic Appetite

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It is not easy to describe what Vlatko Stefanovski does with his guitar; it seems that he has been on a quest for his whole career to discover the real possibilities of the instrument. People tend to believe he was born with a guitar in his hands, and this is hard to argue. For the last ...

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Article: Book Review

Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin

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Paul Stump Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin SAF Publishing ISBN: 0-04-679124-1 1999 Published in 1999, Paul Stump's Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin is aptly named. While there is a certain degree of biographical chronology to the book, it is more of an ...

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John McLaughlin - MP3 Collection

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2004

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Thieves and Poets

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Thieves and Poets Parts 1/ 2/ 3/ My Foolish Heart/ The Dolphin/ Stella by Starlight/ My Romance.

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Article: Reassessing

Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

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Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia 1969Recording in February 1969, Miles Davis seemed to pick up the vibe of what was going to go down that crazy summer. It was a tumultuous time as the sixties came to a close. First came the Manson Family, then the ...

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Article: Film Review

John McLaughlin: This is the Way I Do It

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John McLaughlin This Is The Way I Do It The Ultimate Guitar Workshop On Improvisation Mediastarz 2004 In the hands of all but a few other guitarists, this title would be a self-aggrandisement on a major scale (no pun intended). However, being the distilled ...

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Article: Film Review

John McLaughlin: This Is The Way I Do It

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John McLaughlin This Is The Way I Do It The Ultimate Guitar Workshop On Improvisation Mediastarz 2004 Leave it to John McLaughlin to revolutionize how guitar improvisation is taught to the masses. One gets the sense that if DVD technology had not come around, McLaughlin would ...

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Article: Album Review

John McLaughlin: Belo Horizonte

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The '80s were not especially great years for guitarist John McLaughlin. Following his groundbreaking late '60s and '70s work with Miles Davis, various incarnations of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and his genre-bending group Shakti, it's almost as if he disappeared from the public eye for a decade, before reappearing in strong form in '90 with Live at ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Recordings by John McLaughlin

Read "Recordings by John McLaughlin" reviewed by Walter Kolosky


Noted jazz critic Leonard Feather once called the English jazz guitarist John McLaughlin a chameleon. He did not mean it as a compliment. He believed that McLaughlin never developed a real musical identity, because he kept jumping into too many different musical worlds. Indeed, McLaughlin had written and played ragtime, rock, free jazz, modern jazz, fusion, ...

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Article: Profile

Finding the Way: The Music of John McLaughlin

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Since the late '60s, John McLaughlin has been on a constant quest. The guitarist, like his early mentor Miles Davis, has reinvented his music several times. And he isn't likely to stop any time soon. This special feature focuses on the many forms of McLaughlin's music, with particular emphasis on the recordings which have earned him ...


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