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Bendian, Gauthier, Liebig, Stinson: Bone Structure
by Walter Kolosky
Bone Structure is something different: post-jazz fusion-progressive rock-electronica-jam band music that features a wily sinister vibe. Some of the infectious grooves are reminiscent of those laid down by Ginger Baker and Jonas Hellborg on Baker's very fine and underrated Unseen Rain from several years back. Other influences can be heard as well. From time to time ...
Searching For Jazz City - The Case for a Jazz Repatriation Movement
by Walter Kolosky
I've read about a hundred articles over the years proclaiming the imminent death of jazz music. I'm truly sick and tired of them. (Perhaps I should stop reading them). Now, don't get me wrong. I do believe that America's jazz culture is dying. But these journalists never offer any solutions. Years of these gloom and doom ...
The Wild Strings Quartet: The Wild Strings Quartet
by Walter Kolosky
England’s Wild Strings Quartet has produced a wonderful eponymous album that's perfect for Sunday mornings. The music is jazz-based, but a strong classical approach and some occasional ambient leanings shape its character. The acoustic Quartet offers several John McLaughlin pieces, a stunning tribute to Paco DeLucia and a few original compositions.The McLaughlin pieces, such ...
Mahavishnu Project: Mahavishnu Project- Live Bootleg
by Walter Kolosky
Over thirty years ago, John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra shocked the jazz and rock music world with their highly volatile electric fusion explosions. Now this music is being reprised by The Mahavishnu Project, a tribute band which recently released a live album. Recorded on tour directly from the house soundboards, Live Bootleg offers a raw, ...
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 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, Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia: Passion Grace & Fire
by Walter Kolosky
Never has an album been so justly deserving of its title. In 1983, the guitar super trio of John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola and Paco DeLucia followed up their phenomenal live acoustic album Friday Night in San Francisco with this masterpiece of a studio recording. The prevailing opinion at the time was that the raw excitement of ...
John McLaughlin and Shakti: Natural Elements
by Walter Kolosky
Shakti was really the world's first World Music super group. The only problem was that no one knew it yet! The group's live performances were mesmerizing, but Columbia couldn't give the albums away. Natural Elements, from 1977, was the third and last Shakti album. It offered a more cohesive and structured presentation in terms of themes ...
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 ...
