John McLaughlin's first recording as a leader features the future innovator playing guitar in an English quartet. Although McLaughlin contributed all ten pieces, baritonist John Surman actually dominates this music, often swinging quite hard. The historically significant set, although a lesser-known item in McLaughlin's discography, is quite musical and enjoyable in its own right.
My older brother was keyed in to the British Jazz scene in the mid 60s, and so my ear got tuned to Jazz with New Jazz Orchestra, and Stan Tracey, but the record that really started me understanding and feeling the genre was John McLaughlin's first album as a leader in 1969 - Extrapolation. This is a landmark record, and I've noticed a lot of Jazz musicians citing, like me, Binky's Beam as their f
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My older brother was keyed in to the British Jazz scene in the mid 60s, and so my ear got tuned to Jazz with New Jazz Orchestra, and Stan Tracey, but the record that really started me understanding and feeling the genre was John McLaughlin's first album as a leader in 1969 - Extrapolation. This is a landmark record, and I've noticed a lot of Jazz musicians citing, like me, Binky's Beam as their f
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