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John McLaughlin and The Heart of Things: Live In Paris
by Walter Kolosky
You just knew this band was going to put it all together. This is the Heart of Things album Verve should have released first. Yes, their debut studio effort was good. But in all facets it is humbled by this live recording.The track list does not suggest much excitement. After all, the only new ...
John McLaughlin and The Free Spirits: Tokyo Live
by Walter Kolosky
Ever since 1985, John McLaughlin had not put out a record featuring electric guitar. Tokyo Live, released almost ten years later, showed the music world once again how the guitarist could reinvent himself. This time the new McLaughlin appears in the form of The Free Spirits, a B-3 based jazz-blues trio featuring McLaughlin on a Johnnie ...
John McLaughlin Trio: Que Alegria
by Walter Kolosky
Recorded in 1991, Que Alegria features the reinvented John McLaughlin Trio with a new bassist, Dominique DiPiazza. And what a bassist he is! His playing sounds facile and energetic, yet subtle and melodic. DiPiazza's two-minute solo “Marie" is beautifully inspiring and represents one of the highlights of this album. McLaughlin revisits his classic “Belo ...
John McLaughlin and Remember Shakti: The Believer
by Walter Kolosky
Will the real Remember Shakti please stand up? On its first live release, Remember Shakti was a serious-minded, bottom-ended, soul-searching ensemble. This time out, Remember Shakti raises its pitch. McLaughlin has an excellent foil in young electric mandolinist U. Shrinivas, who has created a whole new vocabulary for the instrument. Tabla player Zakir Hussain has his ...
John McLaughlin: Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans
by Walter Kolosky
John McLaughlin has always been a huge fan of the late jazz pianist Bill Evans. He tells fondly of attending a show with Dave Liebman in which Evans went beyond brilliant. He also sadly relates the story that Evans had invited him to his house to play, but the pianist died before it could happen.
Remember Shakti: Saturday Night in Bombay
by Walter Kolosky
Last year's Saturday Night in Bombay suffers from a bit of confusion in the liner notes. They refer to a “certain Friday Night in San Francisco in 1978." That certain Friday night Jacques Denis was talking about, The Guitar Trio's Friday Night in San Francisco , actually took place in 1980. Liner note mistakes like that ...
John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia: The Guitar Trio
by Walter Kolosky
For a variety of reasons, The Guitar Trio album was perhaps the least anticipated album of John McLaughlin’s career. What could be new? How could John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, and Paco DeLucia top their two historic albums from the Trio's heyday, 15 years earlier? Well, the answers are clear. If they offered nothing new, ...
John McLaughlin: The Heart of Things
by Walter Kolosky
The Heart of Things allows John McLaughlin to surround himself with some young monsters. A strong line-up on this 1997 record includes McLaughlin alumni Jim Beard on keyboards and Dennis Chambers on drums, as well as electric bassist Matthew Garrison and saxophonist Gary Thomas. The youthful newcomers, Garrison and Thomas, front bands of their own and ...
John McLaughlin: After the Rain
by Walter Kolosky
After the Rain received much praise in 1994 from many critics who usually consider McLaughlin's approach to music a bit too cosmic. The feelings among McLaughlin devotees were more mixed, however--there was some talk that McLaughlin may be running out of ideas. After all, this was the second tribute album he had released in the last ...
John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu: Adventures in Radioland
by Walter Kolosky
Yet another revamped Mahavishnu emerged in 1986 and released Adventures In Radioland. McLaughlin was having a hard time in the 1980's obtaining a decent record contract. He eventually found a home at Relativity. Relativity, being a minor label, did not do a good job of distributing Adventures in Radioland. Due to this fact, it is one ...
