Artist: John McLaughlin
Genre(s):
Jazz
Jazz: Fusion
Other
Jazz: Jazz-Rock
Ethnic
Rock
Discography:
Trio of Doom
Year: 2007
Tracks: 7
Industrial Zen
Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
After The Rain
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Live In Paris The Heart Of Things
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Live In Paris
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
The Heart Of Things
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
This Is Jazz 17
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
The Promise
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Promise
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Molom - A Legend Of Mongolia
Year: 1995
Tracks: 22
Molom
Year: 1994
Tracks: 22
Tokyo Live
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Time Remembered (John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Plays Bill Evans - Time Remembered
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Electric Dreams
Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
Que Alegria
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Live In Europe 1991
Year: 1991
Tracks: 7
Mediterranean Concerto
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
Live At The Royal Festival Hall
Year: 1989
Tracks: 6
Fabrik Hamburg Live
Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
Adventures In Radioland
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Adventures In Radio Land
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Music Spoken Here
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Belo Horizonte
Year: 1981
Tracks: 8
Electric Guitarist
Year: 1979
Tracks: 7
Love Devotion Surrender
Year: 1973
Tracks: 5
My Goals Beyond
Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
Where Fortune Smiles
Year: 1971
Tracks: 5
Devotion
Year: 1970
Tracks: 6
Extrapolation
Year: 1969
Tracks: 10
Remember Shakti
Year:
Tracks: 5
A house identify since the early '70s, John McLaughlin was an innovative spinal fusion guitarist when he light-emitting diode the Mahavishnu Orchestra and continued living up to his reputation as a phenomenal and systematically inquisitive player through the eld. He started on guitar when he was 11 and was ab initio divine by blues and drop players. McLaughlin worked with Alexis Korner, Graham Bond, Ginger Baker, and others in the sixties and played rid jazz with Gunter Hampel for six-spot months. His low gear record album was a classic (1969's Extrapolation) and was followed by an obscurity for the Dawns label with John Surman, a quintet set with Larry Young (Devotion), and My Goals Beyond in 1970 which was half acoustic solos and half jams involving Indian musicians.
In 1969, McLaughlin moved to New York to play with Tony Williams' Lifetime and he appeared on two definitive Miles Davis records: In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. In 1971, McLaughlin formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a very powerful group ofttimes thought of as rock only having the sophisticated improvisations of idle words. After leash influential albums (The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, and Between Nothingness and Eternity), the group disbanded in 1973. McLaughlin, world Health Organization recorded a knock-down spiritual album with Carlos Santana that was influenced by John Coltrane, put together a new Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1974 that, contempt the inclusion of Jean-Luc Ponty, failed to hitch on and broke up by 1975. McLaughlin then surprised the music reality by radically shifty directions, shift to acoustic guitar and playing Indian music with his grouping Shakti. They made a strong impact on the reality music panorama (which was in its early childhood) during their threesome age. McLaughlin then went back and forth betwixt galvanizing and acoustic guitars; leading the One Truth Band; playing in trios with Al DiMeola and Paco De Lucia; pop up on some mid-'80s Miles Davis records; forming a ephemeral third version of the Mahavishnu Orchestra (with saxophonist Bill Evans); recording an self-examining tribute to piano player Bill Evans; and, in 1993, touring with a sportive nothingness trio featuring Joey DeFrancesco and drummer Dennis Chambers. Throughout his productive life history John McLaughlin has recorded as a leader for Marmalade, Dawns, Douglas International, Columbia, Warner Bros., and Verve.
