McLaughlin Mondays #11 – The Missing Years
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I lost touch with McLaughlin's music in the eighties. In fact, I lost touch with most artists. I was busy in my first serious job, married and starting a family. Once babies began to arrive there wasn’t even much time to listen to my existing music collection let alone add to it. Music took a back seat. It wasn’t until ten years later that I started to find the time and money to buy new CDs.When I did finally check up on JM I found that he’d mellowed…. a lot. He had been playing a lot of acoustic jazz in various lineups featuring interesting musicians like Jonas Helborg and Trilok Gurtu. He’d played with the great Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco. He made a couple of albums with his second wife, keyboardist Katia Labeque, and he continued to put together occasional concert tours with fellow guitar giants Al Dimeola and Paco De Lucia. He even wrote, recorded and performed a concerto for guitar and orchestra!There’s some great music contained in his CDs from the eighties, although I will confess I have never found his output from this period as exciting as what came before or after. Still, I want this series of posts to contain something from every phase of his career, so here’s a track from the 1981 album “Belo Horizonte”. It’s called “One Melody” (which you can hear McLaughlin announce very quietly at the beginning).Enjoy.
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