Search results for "John McLaughlin"

Shakti with John McLaughlin: What Need Have I For This – What Need Have I For That – I Am Dancing At The Feet Of My L... (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 09, 08

There was a time when you could go into a Sears store and find jazz and progressive music in a well- stocked record d...

John McLaughlin: My Foolish Heart (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 26, 08

Victor Young wrote the music for the 1949 movie of the same name, which critics hated. Despite the film's negative pr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN ON STANDARDS

Editor's note: Guitarist extraordinaire John McLaughlin recently participated in a candid dialogue with jazz.com's W...

John McLaughlin: Afro Blue (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 26, 08

McLaughlin's energetic version of Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue" from After the Rain is a fully realized treatment of...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN ON STANDARDS

Editor's note: Guitarist extraordinaire John McLaughlin recently participated in a candid dialogue with jazz.com's W...

John McLaughlin: Very Early (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 26, 08

This is one of Bill Evans's most beautiful compositions. McLaughlin's admiration for Evans is well known. He played "...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN ON STANDARDS

Editor's note: Guitarist extraordinaire John McLaughlin recently participated in a candid dialogue with jazz.com's W...

John McLaughlin: Blue in Green (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 26, 08

Miles wrote it! No, Bill Evans wrote it! For some, the argument goes on and on. (Evans credits Miles on his album, so...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN ON STANDARDS

Editor's note: Guitarist extraordinaire John McLaughlin recently participated in a candid dialogue with jazz.com's W...

John McLaughlin: My Romance (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 26, 08

This could be a fun thing to do: play McLaughlin's beautiful acoustic rendition of "My Romance" to someone unfamiliar...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN ON STANDARDS

Editor's note: Guitarist extraordinaire John McLaughlin recently participated in a candid dialogue with jazz.com's W...

Miles Davis: Go Ahead John (part two C) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 31, 08

"Go Ahead John" was simply named for a Miles Davis exhortation to guitarist John McLaughlin. "Go Ahead John (Part Two...

Stanley Clarke: Song to John (Part 1) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 12, 08

In 1975 you couldn't get three bigger fusion stars to play even one tune together on a record than Stanley Clarke, Ch...

Mahavishnu Orchestra: John's Song #2 (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 26, 08

In 1999, producer Bob Belden came across the master tapes of what would become The Lost Trident Sessions. Belden had ...

Stanley Clarke: Song to John (Part 2) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 12, 08

"Song to John (Part 2)" appears as a separate cut from "Song to John (Part 1)" on Stanley Clarke's Journey to Love. A...

John McLaughlin: New York on My Mind (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 27, 08

This cut is the closest the original Mahavishnu Orchestra ever got to reconciliation. Five years after the band's acr...

John McLaughlin: Every Tear From Every Eye (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 08, 08

"Every Tear From Every Eye" is a mournful ballad from McLaughlin's all-star album Johnny McLaughlin Electric Guitaris...

Vinnie Colaiuta: John's Blues (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 20, 08

Most recently playing with Herbie Hancock, but having starred with many jazz and rock giants such as Chick Corea, Jef...

Gary Husband: Celestial Terrestrial Commuters (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 12, 08

Mr. Husband can easily shift from playing with a fusion band, to a progressive jazz unit, to a big band, to a rock gr...

John McLaughlin: Stardust On Your Sleeve (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

I am on record someplace saying "Stardust On Your Sleeve" is the most beautiful melody John McLaughlin ever wrote. Th...

John McLaughlin: Hope (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

Where Fortune Smiles was not originally designed as a John McLaughlin release. The record came out under his name for...

John McLaughlin: When Love Is Far Away (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 05, 08

There is an ongoing dispute in John McLaughlin's fan community. One contingent of McLaughlin admirers has been bother...

John McLaughlin and The Heart of Things: Mother Tongues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music June 25, 08

John McLaughlin's Heart of Things was a hot band. But you would really have to hear the group live to buy into t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BODY PARTS FOR HALLOWEEN

A few months ago I was writing a Jazz.com review of Bireli LaGrene’s tune “Hips.” It started getting me think...

John McLaughlin: Devotion (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 01, 08

If there were one trait that best describes John McLaughlin, it would be that he is a man of great devotion. He has a...

John McLaughlin: Guardian Angels (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music September 26, 08

"Guardian Angels" is only 52 seconds long, but is important in the John McLaughlin chronology. It opens this album, u...

Previous Page | Next Page