This DVD is one of my personal favorites! I still remember watching these incredible masters of the acoustic guitar on Belgium TV many years ago. Thank God somebody taped this back then because this is one of the most beautiful acoustic guitar shows I have ever seen! The show starts off with an incredibly beautiful solo piece by John McLaughlin followed by a wonderful classical flamenco piece p...
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This is an Excellent performance by three Master Musicians. Here at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, John McLaughlin show us that he is still one of the greatest guitarists in the world! Together with one of the greatest drummers in the world, Dennis Chambers and tabla Master Zakir Hussain, he entertains us with a hot mix of Mahavishnu Orchestra & Remember Shakti fire! Enjoy!!!SoundBoard RecordingDed...
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Another in glasnostrd19's Jazz Masters series. Masters of jazz from master audience tapes. Like most (if not all) in this series this one is a first time master seed. A nice show in a nice little theater on the northern part of Cape Cod, complete except for 2 tape flip cuts (both spliced), recorded about 15 rows back, almost dead center. The sound was good at this show, so was everything else, ...
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I sense a foreboding mood around the Mog and amongst friends lately. I am no winston churchill or anything, but I will say that we should buck up a bit. It ain't so bad, it just seems like life requires some necessary simplification lately. Hope this Bill Evans composition finds you well on this evening.
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Early on in John McLaughlin's musical career he learned "the standards". These are the great songs from Jazz history that successive generations of jazz musicians have absorbed, interpreted, improvised upon, and delivered in their own styles, yet always respectful of the musical history that underpins them.Here's a version of the lovely Charlie Mingus tune "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" from the early...
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Just prior to forming the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and just emerging from his incredible experience as part of the Miles Davis / Bitches Brew lineup, McLaughlin found himself in New York surrounded by incredible musicians, and was immersed in an electrified jazz scene that was, well, electric! Hendrix was in town around the same time, and thru various jam sessions (including some with Hendrix him...
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Purported to be the album that got the attention of Miles Davis, consequently leading to the great man offering McLaughlin a place in his groundbreaking fusion ensemble of the late 60s / early 70s, “Extrapolation” is a must-have for any modern jazz fan.Joined here by John Surman on baritone sax (!), Tony Oxley on drums and Brian Odgers on string bass, this is McLaughlin’s first effort as a b
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OK you need to check that your stereo system is wired correctly for this post if you want to win this competition...Over the years and between bands, McLaughlin has put together some memorable acoustic guitar “happenings” – collaborations that have exclusively resulted in live performances (no studio recordings) with several other wonderful guitarists, namely Al DiMeola, Larry Coryell and Pa
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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 C
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Just squeaking in under the wire this week with my regular Monday post! Only arrived back at SFO this afternoon after a lovely week back in the "motherland" (UK in my case).Something more recent, recorded in 1998 live in Paris, this is an electric lineup featuring the amazing Dennis Chambers on drums and Gary Thomas on sax. I really like this particular track which showcases McLaughlin's virt...
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I had the pleasure and privilege of seeing John McLaughlin's Fourth Dimension the weekend before last in San Francisco. This was the 8th time I've seen him over the years (first was Reading Festival, UK 1975 with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra lineup!).Playing fantastic raw fusion jazz, and now in his 60s, McLaughlin continues to draw amazing musicians around him and drives them to greater ...
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John McLaughlin is playing on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at Town Hall in NYC.A snippet from a guitarplayer.com article:Born in Yorkshire, England on January 4, 1942, the guitarist is well known for his eclectic taste in music. McLaughlin was a child when he first fell in love with jazz and the blues, and he was just 11 years old when he began studying and playing the guitar. The 1960s found h...
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This post should be of interest to any McLaughlin fan, and hopefully, to other Moggers who have never even heard of him. "Molom" was a french movie made in the 90s about a young Mongolian boy. The soundtrack was composed and performed by the legendary jazz guitarist with help from percussion genius Trilok Gurtu. It's a hard-to-find, limited edition CD full of familiar melodic themes and chor...
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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 thei...
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