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John McLaughlin: His Goals Beyond

by A. Henkin
September 20, 2007

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
September 15, 2007

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
September 14, 2007

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
September 10, 2007

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
September 3, 2007

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
August 5, 2007

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 ...

Soft Machine: Third through Seven Remasters

by John Kelman
February 28, 2007

While the merits of remastered reissues are the source of considerable debate, there's no denying that the discography of pioneering British jazz/rock band Soft Machine has been more deserving of attention than most. In the group's fourteen-year existence it shifted gears more often than outfits lasting considerably longer. Beginning in the late 1960s as a psychedelic ...

John McLaughlin, LaBeque Duo, Trilok Gurtu

Featuring the music of John McLaughlin
Duration: 8:08
January 7, 2007

Industrial Zen

By John McLaughlin

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2006
Track listing: For Jaco; New Blues Old Bruise; Wayne's Way; Just So Only More So; To Bop or Not to Be; Dear Dalai Lama; Senor C.S.; Mother Nature.

John McLaughlin/Remember Shakti: The Way of Beauty

by John Kelman
October 5, 2006

John McLaughlin/Remember Shakti The Way of Beauty Universal Music France 2006 Over the past decade guitarist John McLaughlin, other than working on his Industrial Zen (Verve, 2006) project, has devoted much of his time to a new version of his ground-breaking mid-'70s Indo-Jazz fusion group Shakti. For those unable to ...