John McLaughlin News

By Adam Tanner

MONTEREY, California (Reuters) - Nearly 40 years after helping pioneer jazz fusion with Miles Davis, guitar maestro John McLaughlin still faces harsh critics who dismiss such technically demanding, electronically charged music as “steroidal” or even a “pestilence.”

British-born McLaughlin, 65, accompanied trumpeter Davis on the seminal 1969 “Bitches Brew” and “Silent Way” albums, which shocked jazz purists and delighted others by bringing together elements of jazz and rock.

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