John McLaughlin News

If Miles Davis had stopped making music in the 1950s, he would be remembered as one of the most eloquent and influential trumpeters in jazz. But Davis, an Alton native who grew up in East St. Louis, was also a visionary who wasn’t afraid to shake things up and didn’t believe in looking back. Beginning [...]

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At age 68, John McLaughlin, one of the most influential guitarists of the last 40 years, doesn’t seem to be slowing down. He’s released four albums in the last five years, keeping a pace he set when he arrived in the U.S. in 1969. Three weeks off the boat from his native England, he was [...]

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y first contact with author Walter Kolosky was a simple e-mail response he sent to me upon reading my brief bio on All About Jazz, the on-line jazz journal, where both of us were contributing reviewers. I had put a line in my bio stating how my first exposure to the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1971 was undoubtedly the most [...]

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Whether you call it electric jazz, fusion, or just good old music, John McLaughlin is the forefather of this style on the six string. From his contributions on classic albums by Miles Davis starting with the landmark In a Silent Way in 1969 to his own work with the massively influential Mahavishnu Orchestra and as a solo artist, [...]

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At 68, John McLaughlin is having a rebirth. The jazz-fusion guitar legend has recorded four albums in the past five years and toured with four bands. Just last week, he sat in with the Roots on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to kick off a two-month U.S. tour that hits the Boston House of Blues [...]

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John McLaughlin has been called a lot of things since his searing guitar work on Miles Davis’s seminal 1970 album “Bitches Brew’’ helped kick-start the jazz/rock fusion movement. With his blazing technique and lean, sinewy sound, he’s been dubbed a speed demon, a spiritual seeker, the ultimate shredder, and simply “the best guitarist alive’’ in [...]

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