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John McLaughlin, also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer. His music includes many genres of jazz, and rock, which he coupled with an interest in Indian classical music to become one of the pioneering figures in fusion. In 2010 guitarist Jeff Beck called him "the best guitarist alive". The Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has called him "one of the greatest and one of the important musicians of our times". In 2003 McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". After contributing to several key British groups of the early sixties and making his first solo record Extrapolation he moved to the USA where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On The Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.

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Discography

  • Passion, Grace & Fire, 1990
  • Belo horizonte, 2004
  • My Goal's Beyond, 1998
  • Love Devotion Surrender, 1977
  • The Heart of Things, 1997
  • Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans, 1993
  • Trio of Doom, 2007
  • Industrial Zen, 2006
  • The Collection
  • The Dawn Sessions (Disc 2), 1999
  • Floating Point, 2008
  • Devotion, 1970
  • Remember Shakti (disc 1), 1999
  • The Promise, 1996
  • After the Rain, 1995
  • My Goals Beyond, 1987
  • Remember Shakti (disc 2), 1999
  • Music Spoken Here, 2002
  • Thieves and Poets, 2003
  • Electric Guitarist
  • Extrapolation, 1991
  • The Guitar Trío, 1996
  • The Dawn Sessions (Disc 1), 1999
  • Concerto for Guitar & Orch and Duos for Guitar & Piano

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On Mar 20, 2012. 7:29pm
soozle said

Very nice, and original.

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