104-401: John or Jon McLaughlin may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] John McLaughlin (musician) (born 1942), English jazz fusion guitarist, member of Mahavishnu Orchestra Jon McLaughlin (musician) (born 1982), American singer-songwriter John McLaughlin (artist) (1898–1976), California hard-edge painter "John McLaughlin",
208-654: A sitar or veena . The instrument's vina-like scalloped fretboard enabled McLaughlin to bend strings far beyond the reach of a conventional fretboard. McLaughlin grew so accustomed to the freedom it provided him that he had the fretboard scalloped on his Gibson Byrdland electric guitar. McLaughlin also appeared on Stanley Clarke 's School Days and numerous other fusion albums. They later recorded three tracks at CBS Studios in New York, 8 March 1979. The same year he teamed up with flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía and jazz guitarist Larry Coryell (replaced by Al Di Meola in
312-522: A Silent Way , Bitches Brew (which has a track titled after him), Live-Evil , On the Corner , Big Fun (where he is featured soloist on "Go Ahead John") and A Tribute to Jack Johnson . In the liner notes to Jack Johnson , Davis called McLaughlin's playing "far in". McLaughlin returned to the Davis band for one night of a week-long club date, recorded and released as part of the album Live-Evil and of
416-518: A band for each: the Akoustic Band and the Elektric Band. Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter started very influential jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1970 and developed successful career along with major musicians like Alphonse Mouzon , Jaco Pastorius , Airto Moreira and Miroslav Vitouš until 1986. Tony Williams was a member of Davis's band since 1963. Williams reflected, "I wanted to create
520-645: A combination of rock and jazz at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 with a quartet that included Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette . Lloyd adopted the trappings of the California psychedelic rock scene by playing at the rock venue the Fillmore West , wearing colorful clothes, and giving his albums titles like Dream Weaver and Forest Flower , which were bestselling jazz albums in 1967. Flautist Jeremy Steig experimented with jazz in his band Jeremy &
624-519: A complex but grooving sound. In the 1990s most M-Base participants turned to more conventional music, but Coleman, the most active participant, continued developing his music in accordance with the M-Base concept. M-Base changed from a loose collective to an informal "school". Afro-Cuban jazz, one of the earliest forms of Latin jazz , is a fusion of Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban jazz emerged in
728-638: A different Indian musician. Coinciding with the release of the album was another DVD, Meeting of the Minds , which offered behind the scenes studio footage of the Floating Point sessions as well as interviews with all of the musicians. He engaged in a late summer/fall 2008 tour with Chick Corea , Vinnie Colaiuta , Kenny Garrett and Christian McBride under the name Five Peace Band , from which came an eponymous double-CD live album in early 2009. McLaughlin performed with Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Billy Cobham at
832-487: A different atmosphere from the one I had been in...What better way to do it than to go electric?" He left Davis to form the Tony Williams Lifetime with English guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young . The band combined rock intensity and loudness with jazz spontaneity. The debut album Emergency! was recorded three months before Bitches Brew . Although McLaughlin had worked with Miles Davis, he
936-581: A documentary on the Labèque Sisters . Following this period he recorded and toured with The Heart of Things featuring Gary Thomas , Dennis Chambers , Matt Garrison , Jim Beard and Otmaro Ruíz . In 1993 he released a Bill Evans tribute album entitled Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans , with McLaughlin's acoustic guitar backed by the acoustic guitars of the Aighetta Quartet and
1040-518: A guitar duo with Christian Escoudé . With the group Fuse One , he released two albums in 1980 and 1982. In 1981 and 1982, McLaughlin recorded two albums, Belo Horizonte and Music Spoken Here with The Translators, a band of French and American musicians who combined acoustic guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, and violin with synthesizers. The Translators included McLaughlin's then-girlfriend, classical pianist Katia Labèque . From 1984 through to (circa) 1987, an electric five-piece operated under
1144-566: A headline that: "Jazz as We Know It Is Dead". AllMusic states that "until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and rock were nearly completely separate". Guitarist Larry Coryell , sometimes called the godfather of fusion, referred to a generation of musicians who had grown up on rock and roll when he said, "We loved Miles but we also loved the Rolling Stones ." In 1966, he started the band the Free Spirits with Bob Moses on drums and recorded
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#17328957192481248-400: A heart attack. Also, at the age of 7, the younger John McLaughlin heard classical music on the phonograph, and considered it a "message to my heart and soul more than anything"; this motivated him to become a musician. McLaughlin studied violin and piano as a child; At the age of 11, his brother gave John a guitar and John immediately took up the instrument, exploring styles from flamenco to
1352-476: A jam session. And we played from 2 until 8, in the morning. I thought it was a wonderful experience! I was playing an acoustic guitar with a pick-up. Um, flat-top guitar, and Jimi was playing an electric. Yeah, what a lovely time! Had he lived today, you'd find that he would be employing everything he could get his hands on, and I mean acoustic guitar, synthesizers, orchestras, voices, anything he could get his hands on he'd use!" He played on Miles Davis' albums In
1456-583: A keyboard sound like an electric guitar. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was influenced by both psychedelic rock and Indian classical music . The band's first lineup broke up after two studio albums and one live album, but McLaughlin formed another group in 1974 under the same name with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty , one of the first electric violinists. After leaving the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1975 Jean-Luc Ponty signed with Atlantic and released number of successful jazz fusion solo albums that entered top 5 of
1560-544: A more commercial direction in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the form of compositions with a softer sound palette that could fit comfortably in a soft rock radio playlist. The AllMusic guide's article on fusion states that "unfortunately, as it became a money-maker and as rock declined artistically from the mid-'70s on, much of what was labeled fusion was actually a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B." Michael and Randy Brecker produced funk-influenced jazz with soloists. David Sanborn
1664-532: A more hardcore approach. Bill Laswell produced many albums in this movement, such as Ask the Ages by avant-garde guitarist Sonny Sharrock and Arc of the Testimony with Laswell's band Arcana . Niacin (band) was formed by rock bassist Billy Sheehan, drummer Dennis Chambers, and organist John Novello. In London, The Pop Group began to mix free jazz and reggae into their form of punk rock. In New York City, no wave
1768-437: A musical and spiritual crisis; He became disillusioned with the teachings of Sri Chinmoy and eventually disavowed Chinmoy's teachings. McLaughlin stated in 1976 for People Magazine , "I love [Sri Chinmoy] very much, but I must assume responsibility for my own actions". A scaled-down quartet was formed with McLaughlin, Walden on drums, Armstrong on bass and Stu Goldberg on keyboards and synthesiser, for their final album in
1872-442: A new jazz fusion quartet, the 4th Dimension, consisting of keyboardist/drummer Gary Husband , bassist Hadrian Feraud, and drummer Mark Mondesir . During the 4th Dimension's tour, an "instant CD" entitled Live USA 2007: Official Bootleg was made available comprising soundboard recordings of six pieces from the group's first performance. Following completion of the tour, McLaughlin sorted through recordings from each night to release
1976-533: A profound musical revelation, when psychedelic music was in vogue; He inferred that these music raised existential questions and insisted that he was "on the same boat" as those who sought answers to such, which further motivated his interests in Indian culture and its classical music. For a time, in 1968, McLaughlin would be involved in the free jazz scene with musician Gunter Hampel ; McLaughlin described this experience as "devastating" and "anarchistic", but appreciated
2080-505: A return to acoustic instruments for McLaughlin, performing on nylon-string guitar. On Live at the Royal Festival Hall McLaughlin used a unique guitar synth that enabled him to effectively "loop" guitar parts and play over them live. The synth also featured a pedal that provided sustain. McLaughlin overdubbed parts to create lush soundscapes, aided by Gurtu's unique percussive sounds. He used this approach to great effect in
2184-620: A second MP3 download-only collection entitled, Official Pirate: Best of the American Tour 2007 . During this time, McLaughlin also released another instructional DVD, The Gateway to Rhythm , featuring Indian percussionist and Remember Shakti bandmate Selva Ganesh Vinayakram (or V. Selvaganesh) , focusing on the Indian rhythmic system of konnakol . McLaughlin also remastered and released the shelved 1979 Trio of Doom project with Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams. The project had been aborted due to conflicts between Williams and Pastorius as well as what
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#17328957192482288-488: A single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions , unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies . These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band
2392-604: A song on the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew John McLaughlin, co-writer of the 2010 film Black Swan Politics [ edit ] John McLaughlin (Ontario politician) (1849–1911), politician in Ontario, Canada John McLaughlin (Alberta politician) (1905–1991), provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada John McLaughlin (Australian politician) (1850–1918), New South Wales politician John E. McLaughlin (born 1942), former deputy director and acting director of
2496-545: A string and horn section (McLaughlin referred to this as "the real Mahavishnu Orchestra"). This incarnation of the group recorded two albums, Apocalypse , with the London Symphony Orchestra , and Visions of the Emerald Beyond . During the second lineup, McLaughlin had a double-neck electric guitar built by Rex Bogue. When the guitar broke, in a tour for Visions of the Emerald Beyond , McLaughlin began to have
2600-400: A stronger feel of groove and R&B versus some of the jazz fusion production, and is more arranged and features more improvisation than soul jazz . M-Base ("macro-basic array of structured extemporization") centers on a movement started in the 1980s. It started as a group of young African-American musicians in New York which included Steve Coleman , Greg Osby , and Gary Thomas developing
2704-545: A technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences. McLaughlin's solo on "Miles Beyond" from his album Live at Ronnie Scott's won the 2018 Grammy Award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo . He has been awarded multiple "Guitarist of the Year" and "Best Jazz Guitarist" awards from magazines such as DownBeat and Guitar Player based on reader polls. In 2003, he
2808-532: A teenager in Yorkshire . This was a return to more mainstream jazz/rock fusion and to the electric instrument after three years of playing acoustic guitars. The short-lived One Truth Band recorded one studio album, Electric Dreams , with L. Shankar on violins, Stu Goldberg on keyboards, Fernando Saunders on electric bass and Tony Smith on drums. After the dissolution of the One Truth Band, McLaughlin toured in
2912-662: A three-DVD instructional video on improvisation entitled "This is the Way I Do It" (which contributed to the development of video lessons. ) In June 2006 he released the post-bop / jazz fusion album Industrial Zen , on which he experimented with the Godin Glissentar as well as continuing to expand his guitar-synth repertoire. In 2007, he left Universal Records and joined Abstract Logix. Recording sessions for his first album on that label took place in April. That summer, he began touring with
3016-513: A tour, McLaughlin was offended by the writeups and disparagement of his religious beliefs. Goodman reconciled with McLaughlin, several years after the breakup. In 2001 the Lost Trident Sessions album was released; recorded in 1973 but shelved when the group disbanded. McLaughlin then reformed the group with Narada Michael Walden (drums), Jean-Luc Ponty (violin), Ralphe Armstrong (bass), and Gayle Moran (keyboards and vocals), and
3120-445: A trio including percussionist Trilok Gurtu , and three bassists at various times; firstly Jeff Berlin , then Kai Eckhardt and finally Dominique Di Piazza . Berlin contributed to the trio's live work only in 1988/89, and didn't record with McLaughlin. The group recorded two albums: Live at The Royal Festival Hall and Que Alegria , the former with Eckhardt, and the latter with di Piazza for all but two tracks. These recordings saw
3224-441: A whole new genre, Latin rock . Other rock artists such as Gary Moore , The Grateful Dead , The Doors , Jimi Hendrix , and The Allman Brothers Band have taken influences from blues, jazz, blues rock , jazz rock and incorporated it into their own music. According to AllMusic, the term jazz rock "may refer to the loudest, wildest, most electrified fusion bands from the jazz camp, but most often it describes performers coming from
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3328-591: A whole new style just as Davis had. Davis's albums during this period, including In a Silent Way , Bitches Brew , A Tribute to Jack Johnson , Live-Evil and On the Corner , featured McLaughlin. Davis dropped out of music in 1975 because of problems with drugs and alcohol, but his sidemen took advantage of the creative and financial vistas that had been opened. Herbie Hancock brought elements of funk, disco, and electronic music into commercially successful albums such as Head Hunters (1973) and Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979). Several years after recording Miles in
3432-514: A world tour and recorded an album of the same name. They had previously released a studio album entitled Passion, Grace & Fire back in 1983. Meanwhile, in the same year of 1996 McLaughlin recorded The Promise . Also notable during the period were his performances with Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco . In 2003, he recorded a ballet score, Thieves and Poets , along with arrangements for classical guitar ensemble of favourite jazz standards and
3536-409: Is a leading guitarist in jazz and jazz fusion. His style has been described as one that incorporates aggressive speed, technical precision, and harmonic sophistication. He is known for using non-Western scales and unconventional time signatures. Indian music has had a profound influence on his style, and, it has been written, he is one of the first Westerners to play Indian music to Indian audiences. He
3640-458: Is considered his first fusion album. Composed of two side-long improvised suites edited heavily by Teo Macero, the album was made by pioneers of jazz fusion: Corea, Hancock, Tony Williams , Wayne Shorter , Joe Zawinul and John McLaughlin . A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971) has been cited as "the purest electric jazz record ever made" and "one of the most remarkable jazz rock discs of the era". According to music journalist Zaid Mudhaffer,
3744-454: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages John McLaughlin (musician) John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu , is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion , his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music , Western classical music , flamenco , and blues . After contributing to several key British groups of
3848-507: Is heavily influenced by jazz, especially in bassist Ryan Martinie 's playing. Puya frequently incorporates influences from American and Latin jazz music. Another, more cerebral, all-instrumental progressive jazz fusion-metal band Planet X released Universe in 2000 with Tony MacAlpine , Derek Sherinian (ex- Dream Theater ), and Virgil Donati (who has played with Scott Henderson from Tribal Tech ). The band blends fusion-style guitar solos and syncopated odd-metered drumming with
3952-437: Is less likely to use piano and double bass , and more likely to use electric guitar , electric piano , synthesizers , and bass guitar . The term "jazz rock" is sometimes used as a synonym for "jazz fusion" and for music performed by late 1960s- and 1970s-era rock bands that added jazz elements to their music. After a decade of popularity during the 1970s, fusion expanded its improvisatory and experimental approaches through
4056-399: Is pop music with jazz instruments, soft production, commercially viable, and radio-friendly. In jazz pop, the music has less improvisation, but retains the melody and swing of jazz. Robert Palmer from The New York Times cited that jazz pop should be distinguished from jazz rock . Examples of jazz-pop musicians are Kenny G , Bob James , and George Benson . By the early 1980s, much of
4160-616: The Billboard jazz charts in mid '70s — '80s. During the late 1970s, Lee Ritenour , Stuff , George Benson, Spyro Gyra , the Crusaders , and Larry Carlton released fusion albums. The term " jazz-rock " (or "jazz/rock") is sometimes used as a synonym for "jazz fusion". The Free Spirits have sometimes been cited as the earliest jazz rock band. Rock bands such as Colosseum , Chicago , The Ides of March , Blood, Sweat & Tears , Chase , Santana , Soft Machine , Nucleus , Brand X ,
4264-574: The Cellar Door boxed set. His reputation as a "first-call" session player grew, resulting in recordings as a sideman with Miroslav Vitous , Larry Coryell , Joe Farrell , Wayne Shorter , Carla Bley , the Rolling Stones , and others. He recorded Devotion in early 1970 on Douglas Records (run by Alan Douglas ), a high-energy, psychedelic fusion album that featured Larry Young on organ (who had been part of Lifetime), Billy Rich on bass and
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4368-487: The Los Angeles Philharmonic . It was recorded in 1988 with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . Unlike what is typical practice in classical music, the concerto includes sections where McLaughlin improvises . Also included on the recording were five duets between McLaughlin and his then-girlfriend Katia Labèque. In the late 1980s, McLaughlin began performing live and recording with
4472-527: The Mahavishnu Orchestra , included violinist Jerry Goodman , keyboardist Jan Hammer , bassist Rick Laird , and drummer Billy Cobham . They performed a technically difficult and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Eastern and Indian influences. This band helped establish fusion as a new and growing style. McLaughlin's playing at this time was distinguished by fast solos and non-western musical scales . The first incarnation of
4576-565: The R&;B drummer Buddy Miles . Devotion was the first of two albums he released on Douglas. In 1971 he released My Goal's Beyond in the US, a collection of unamplified acoustic works. Side A ("Peace One" and "Peace Two") offers a fusion blend of jazz and Indian classical forms, while side B features melodic acoustic playing on such standards as " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ", by Charles Mingus whom McLaughlin considered an important influence. My Goal's Beyond
4680-535: The 1960s and 1970s had a large impact on many rock groups of that era such as Santana and Frank Zappa. They took jazz phrasing and harmony and incorporated it into modern rock music, significantly changing music history and paving the way for artists that would follow in their footsteps. Carlos Santana in particular has given much credit to Miles Davis and the influence he had on his music. While Miles Davis combined jazz with modal and rock influences, Carlos Santana combined these along with Latin rhythms and feel, shaping
4784-732: The 1970s, Inner Worlds , which was released on February 1976, largely due to contractual obligations. McLaughlin then became absorbed in his acoustic playing with his Indian classical music based group Shakti (energy). McLaughlin had already been studying Indian classical music and playing the veena for several years. The group featured Lakshminarayanan L. Shankar (violin), Zakir Hussain ( tabla ), Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram ( ghatam ) and earlier Ramnad Raghavan ( mridangam ). The group recorded three albums: Shakti with John McLaughlin (1975) A Handful of Beauty (1976), and Natural Elements (1977). Based on both Carnatic and Hindustani styles, along with extended use of konnakol ,
4888-538: The 1980s in parallel with the development of a radio-friendly style called smooth jazz . Experimentation continued in the 1990s and 2000s. Fusion albums, even those that are made by the same group or artist, may include a variety of musical styles. Rather than being a codified musical style, fusion can be viewed as a musical tradition or approach. When John Coltrane died in 1967, rock was the most popular music in America, and DownBeat magazine went so far as to declare in
4992-492: The 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal, and progressive metal with jazz fusion elements. Cynic recorded a complex, unorthodox form of jazz fusion influenced experimental death metal with their 1993 album Focus . In 1997, Guitar Institute of Technology guitarist Jennifer Batten under the name of Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum released Momentum —an instrumental hybrid of rock, fusion, and exotic sounds. Mudvayne
5096-646: The 44th Montreux Jazz Festival , in Montreux, Switzerland , on 2 July 2010, for the first time since the band split up. In November 2010, a book was released by Abstract Logix Books entitled Follow Your Heart - John McLaughlin Song by Song by Walter Kolosky, who also wrote the book Power, Passion and Beauty – The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra . The book discussed each song McLaughlin wrote and contained photographs never seen before. John McLaughlin
5200-592: The Afro-Cuban jazz movement was stronger in the United States than in Cuba. According to bassist Randy Jackson , jazz fusion is a difficult genre to play. "I ... picked jazz fusion because I was trying to become the ultimate technical musician—able to play anything. Jazz fusion to me is the hardest music to play. You have to be so proficient on your instrument. Playing five tempos at the same time, for instance. I wanted to try
5304-555: The Canada Dry brand of soft drinks John N. McLaughlin (1918–2002), United States Marine Corps general and POW John C. McLaughlin (1921–2013), professor of English and linguistics at the University of Iowa See also [ edit ] John McCloughlin (born 1958), Irish lawn and carpet bowler John McLoughlin (disambiguation) John MacLaughlin (disambiguation) John Laughlin (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
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#17328957192485408-856: The Central Intelligence Agency John McLaughlin (host) (1927–2016), political commentator, host of The McLaughlin Group Sports [ edit ] John McLaughlin (American football) (born 1975), American football defensive end John McLaughlin (footballer, born 1890) , Scottish footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Morton John McLaughlin (footballer, born 1936) , Scottish footballer who played for Clyde, Greenock Morton, Millwall, Dunfermline Athletic and Motherwell John McLaughlin (footballer, born 1944) (1944–2011), Scottish footballer who played for Queen's Park John McLaughlin (footballer, born 1948) , Scottish footballer who played for Falkirk, Everton, and
5512-453: The Corner . Although Bitches Brew gave him a gold record , the use of electric instruments and rock beats created consternation among some jazz critics, who accused Davis of betraying the essence of jazz. Music critic Kevin Fellezs commented that some members of the jazz community regarded rock music as less sophisticated and more commercial than jazz. Davis's 1969 album In a Silent Way
5616-454: The Family Stone . When Davis recorded Bitches Brew in 1969, he mostly abandoned the swing beat in favor of a rock and roll backbeat and bass guitar grooves. The album "mixed free jazz blowing by a large ensemble with electronic keyboards and guitar, plus a dense mix of percussion". Davis played his trumpet like an electric guitar—plugged in to electronic effects and pedals. By the end of
5720-767: The French pianist Katia Labèque , who was also a member of his band in the early 1980s. As of 2017, McLaughlin is married to his fourth wife, Ina Behrend. They had a son in 1998. Since the late 1980s, he has lived in Monaco . McLaughlin is a pescetarian . McLaughlin, alongside Behrend, supports a Palestinian music therapy organization, Al-Mada, who run a program called "For My Identity I Sing". McLaughlin performed in Ramallah , Palestine, in 2012 with Zakir Hussain and in 2014 with 4th Dimension. For his extensive discography including collaborative albums, and albums with music groups, refer to
5824-488: The Graham Bond Quartet with Bond, Ginger Baker and John McLaughlin. They played an eclectic range of music genres, including bebop, blues and rhythm. Graham Bond was McLaughlin's first spiritual influence. Bond would introduce McLaughlin to Indian culture, philosophy, and religious esoteric practices, which McLaughlin stated "triggered a desire to know", while under the influence of drugs. The Graham Bond Quartet
5928-434: The Mahavishnu Orchestra split in late 1973 after two years and three albums, including a live recording Between Nothingness & Eternity , due to personality clashes and overwork imposed by their management; Jan Hammer and Jerry Goodman were among the outspoken members who disputed with McLaughlin's leadership, religious beliefs and songwriting credits. Upon reading an article from Crawdaddy Magazine en route to Japan for
6032-502: The Mongolian folk music in the soundtrack was "pleasant". McLaughlin formed a group, Remember Shakti and toured with them; In addition to original Shakti member Zakir Hussain , this group has also featured eminent Indian musicians U. Srinivas , V. Selvaganesh , Shankar Mahadevan , Shivkumar Sharma , and Hariprasad Chaurasia . In 1996, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola (known collectively as "The Guitar Trio") reunited for
6136-678: The Mothers of Invention and IF blended jazz and rock with electric instruments. Davis' fusion jazz was "pure melody and tonal color", while Frank Zappa's music was more "complex" and "unpredictable". Zappa released the solo album Hot Rats in 1969. The album contained long instrumental pieces with a jazz influence. Zappa released two albums, The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka , in 1972 which were influenced by jazz. George Duke and Aynsley Dunbar played on both. 1970s band Steely Dan has been lauded by music critic Neil McCormick for their "smooth, smart jazz-rock fusion". The jazz artists of
6240-578: The Satyrs with vibraphonist Mike Mainieri . The jazz label Verve released the first album ( Freak Out ) by rock guitarist Frank Zappa in 1966. Rahsaan Roland Kirk performed with Jimi Hendrix at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. As members of Miles Davis ' band, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock played electric piano on Filles de Kilimanjaro . Davis wrote in his autobiography that in 1968 he had been listening to Jimi Hendrix , James Brown , and Sly and
6344-547: The Seattle Sounders John McLaughlin (footballer, born 1952) , English footballer who played for Liverpool and Portsmouth John McLaughlin (footballer, born 1954) , English footballer who played for Colchester United, Swindon Town and Portsmouth Jon McLaughlin (footballer) (born 1987), Scottish footballer, Rangers goalkeeper Others [ edit ] John Fletcher McLaughlin (1863–1933), theologian John J. McLaughlin (1865–1914), founder of
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#17328957192486448-598: The Sky with Davis, guitarist George Benson became a vocalist with enough pop hits to overshadow his earlier career in jazz. While Davis was sidelined, Chick Corea gained prominence. In the early 1970s Corea combined jazz, rock, pop, and Brazilian music in Return to Forever , a band that included Stanley Clarke on bass guitar and Al Di Meola on electric guitar. Corea divided the rest of his career between acoustic and electric music, non-commercial and commercial, jazz and pop rock, with
6552-471: The acoustic bass of Yan Maresz. In 1994, McLaughlin and Trilok Gurtu composed the soundtrack to the drama film Molom, conte de Mongolie , directed by Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville. The film was praised for its visual aspects, authenticity and acting by outlets such as The New York Times and Variety ; Conversely, reception to the soundtrack was mixed, as Variety considered McLaughlin and Gurtu's score "too contemporary to mesh", while remarking that
6656-700: The album included Cobham's name, but by the time the tour started in earnest, Gottlieb was in the band. Forman left at some point between the albums, and was replaced on keyboards by Jim Beard . In tandem with Mahavishnu, McLaughlin worked in duo format ( c. 1985–87) with bassist Jonas Hellborg, playing a number of concert dates, some of which were broadcast on radio and TV, but no commercial recordings were made. In 1986, he appeared with Dexter Gordon in Bertrand Tavernier 's film Round Midnight . He also composed The Mediterranean Concerto, orchestrated by Michael Gibbs . The world premier featured McLaughlin and
6760-490: The band introduced ragas and Indian percussion to many jazz aficionados. In this group McLaughlin played a custom-made steel-string J-200 acoustic guitar made by Abe Wechter and the Gibson guitar company that featured two tiers of strings over the soundhole: a conventional six-string configuration and seven strings strung underneath at a 45-degree angle – these were independently tuneable " sympathetic strings " much like those on
6864-646: The band's first album, Out of Sight and Sound , released in 1967. That same year, DownBeat began to report on rock music. After the Free Spirits, Coryell was part of a quartet led by vibraphonist Gary Burton , releasing the album Duster with its rock guitar influence. Burton produced the album Tomorrow Never Knows for Count's Jam Band, which included Coryell, Mike Nock , and Steve Marcus , all of them former students at Berklee College in Boston. The pioneers of fusion emphasized exploration, energy, electricity, intensity, virtuosity, and volume. Charles Lloyd played
6968-461: The blending of genres, and an interest in the exotic, such as Indian music. He formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra with drummer Billy Cobham , violinist Jerry Goodman , bassist Rick Laird , and keyboardist Jan Hammer . The band released its first album, The Inner Mounting Flame , in 1971. Hammer pioneered the use of the Minimoog synthesizer with distortion effects. His use of the pitch bend wheel made
7072-461: The creation of a genre whose spectrum is quite wide and ranges from strong jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz riffs , jazz solos, and sometimes soul vocals. Jazz-funk is primarily an American genre, where it was popular throughout the 1970s and the early 1980s, but it also achieved noted appeal on the club-circuit in England during the mid-1970s. Jazz-funk retains
7176-739: The early 1940s with the Cuban musicians Mario Bauza and Frank Grillo "Machito" in the band Machito and his Afro-Cubans in New York City. In 1947 the collaborations of bebop innovator Dizzy Gillespie with Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo brought Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments, most notably the congas and the bongos, into the East Coast jazz scene. Early combinations of jazz with Cuban music, such as Gillespie's and Pozo's "Manteca" and Charlie Parker's and Machito's "Mangó Mangüé", were commonly referred to as "Cubop", short for Cuban bebop. During its first decades,
7280-405: The early 1960s, McLaughlin made Extrapolation , his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with drummer Tony Williams 's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz fusion albums In a Silent Way , Bitches Brew , Jack Johnson , Live-Evil , and On the Corner . His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra , performed
7384-473: The early 1980s) as the Guitar Trio. For the tour of fall 1983 they were joined by Dixie Dregs guitarist Steve Morse who opened the show as a soloist and participated with The Trio in the closing numbers. The Trio reunited in 1996 for a second recording session and a world tour. Also in 1979 McLaughlin recorded the album Johnny McLaughlin: Electric Guitarist , the title on McLaughlin's first business cards as
7488-399: The elder John, had separated from Mary when he was 7 years old. The younger John did not have a relationship with his father for most of his life, until in the late 1970s when he contacted his father and took him out to a pub. The younger John said of the experience, "Without my dad, I wouldn't be here. At least I had closure, and for that I thank my lucky stars"; His father later died from
7592-552: The evolution of the guitar during several of his periods of playing. The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr cites McLaughlin "the greatest guitar player that's ever lived". McLaughlin is considered a major influence on composers in the fusion genre. In an interview with Downbeat , Chick Corea remarked that "what John McLaughlin did with the electric guitar set the world on its ear. No one ever heard an electric guitar played like that before, and it certainly inspired me. John's band, more than my experience with Miles, led me to want to turn
7696-505: The first year, Bitches Brew sold 400,000 copies, four times the average for a Miles Davis album. Over the next two years, the aloof Davis recorded more often, worked with many sidemen, appeared on television, and performed at rock venues. Just as quickly, Davis tested the loyalty of rock fans by continuing to experiment. His producer, Teo Macero , inserted previously recorded material into the Jack Johnson soundtrack, Live-Evil , and On
7800-436: The free-form aspect of the genre. McLaughlin would later state in a July 2024 interview for JazzTimes that his experience with Hampel was "self-indulgent" and that he needed "structure ... the more restraints I put on myself, the happier I felt." In January 1969, McLaughlin recorded his debut album Extrapolation in London. It prominently features John Surman on saxophone and Tony Oxley on drums. McLaughlin composed
7904-643: The guitar. And introduced thousands of us to world music, by blending Indian music with jazz and classical. I'd say he was the best guitarist alive." McLaughlin has been cited as a major influence on many 1970s and 1980s guitarists, including prominent players such as Steve Morse , Gary Moore , Eric Johnson , Mike Stern , Al Di Meola , Shawn Lane , Scott Henderson , and Trevor Rabin of Yes . Other players who acknowledge his influence include Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta , Paul Masvidal of Cynic , and Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan . According to Pat Metheny , McLaughlin has changed
8008-400: The heaviness of metal. Tech-prog-fusion metal band Aghora formed in 1995 and released their first album, self-titled Aghora , recorded in 1999 with Sean Malone and Sean Reinert , both former members of Cynic. Gordian Knot , another Cynic-linked experimental progressive metal band, released its debut album in 1999 which explored a range of styles from jazz fusion to metal. The Mars Volta
8112-696: The jazz of Tal Farlow , Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli . He moved to London from Yorkshire in the early 1960s, playing with Alexis Korner and the Marzipan Twisters before moving on to Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames , the Graham Bond Quartet (in 1963) and Brian Auger . During the 1960s, he often supported himself with session work, which he often found unsatisfying but which enhanced his playing and sight-reading. Also, he gave guitar lessons to Jimmy Page . In 1963, Jack Bruce formed
8216-659: The main article above. DownBeat Grammy Awards Guitar Player Magazine Annual Readers Poll Awards Jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock , jazz-rock fusion , or simply fusion ) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music , funk , and rhythm and blues . Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock began to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to
8320-610: The name "Mahavishnu" (omitting the "Orchestra"). Two LPs were released, Mahavishnu and Adventures in Radioland . The former featured McLaughlin making extensive use of the Synclavier synthesizer, allied with a Roland guitar/controller . The first of the two albums was recorded with a line-up of McLaughlin, Bill Evans (saxophones), Jonas Hellborg (bass), Mitchel Forman (keyboards) and both Danny Gottlieb and Billy Cobham on drums. Initial advertising for concert dates in support of
8424-620: The number "Binky's Beam" as a tribute to his friend, the innovative bass player Binky McKenzie . The album's post-bop style is quite different from McLaughlin's later fusion works, though it gradually developed a strong reputation among critics by the mid-1970s. McLaughlin moved to the U.S. in 1969 to join Tony Williams ' group Lifetime . A recording from the Record Plant , NYC, dated 25 March 1969, exists of McLaughlin jamming with Jimi Hendrix . McLaughlin recollects "we played one night, just
8528-638: The original fusion genre was subsumed into other branches of jazz and rock, especially smooth jazz , a radio-friendly subgenre of fusion which is influenced by R&B, funk, and pop music. Smooth jazz can be traced to at least the late 1960s, when producer Creed Taylor worked with guitarist Wes Montgomery on three popular music-oriented albums. Taylor founded CTI Records and many established jazz performers recorded for CTI, including Freddie Hubbard , Chet Baker , George Benson, and Stanley Turrentine . Albums under Taylor's guidance were aimed at both pop and jazz fans. The merging of jazz and pop/rock music took
8632-590: The release of the Spy vs Spy album in 1986. The album was a collection of Ornette Coleman tunes played in the thrashcore style. In the same year, Sonny Sharrock , Peter Brötzmann , Bill Laswell, and Ronald Shannon Jackson recorded the first album under the name Last Exit , a blend of thrash and free jazz. Jazz-funk is characterized by a strong back beat ( groove ), electrified sounds, and an early prevalence of analog synthesizers . The integration of funk , soul , and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted in
8736-414: The rock side of the equation...jazz rock first emerged during the late '60s as an attempt to fuse the visceral power of rock with the musical complexity and improvisational fireworks of jazz. Since rock often emphasized directness and simplicity over virtuosity, jazz rock generally grew out of the most artistically ambitious rock subgenres of the late '60s and early '70s: psychedelia , progressive rock , and
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8944-500: The singer-songwriter movement." According to jazz writer Stuart Nicholson, jazz rock paralleled free jazz by being "on the verge of creating a whole new musical language in the 1960s". He said the albums Emergency! (1969) by the Tony Williams Lifetime and Agharta (1975) by Miles Davis "suggested the potential of evolving into something that might eventually define itself as a wholly independent genre quite apart from
9048-568: The sound and conventions of anything that had gone before". This development was stifled by commercialism, Nicholson said, as the genre "mutated into a peculiar species of jazz-inflected pop music that eventually took up residence on FM radio" at the end of the 1970s. In the 1970s, American fusion was being combined in the U.K. with progressive rock and psychedelic music. Bands who were part of this movement included Brand X (with Phil Collins of Genesis), Bruford ( Bill Bruford of Yes), Nucleus (led by Ian Carr ), and Soft Machine. Throughout Europe and
9152-523: The technically focused progressive metal genre by the late 1980s. Watchtower 's 1989 album Control and Resistance is one of the earliest progressive/ thrash metal albums to experiment with a jazz fusion-influenced sound. The death metal band Atheist produced albums Unquestionable Presence in 1991 and Elements in 1993 containing heavily syncopated drumming, changing time signatures, instrumental parts, acoustic interludes, and Latin rhythms. Meshuggah first attracted international attention with
9256-620: The term "jazz fusion" was coined in a review of Song of Innocence by David Axelrod when it was released in 1968. Axelrod said Davis had played the album before conceiving Bitches Brew . Miles Davis was one of the first jazz musicians to incorporate jazz fusion into his material. He also proved to be a good judge of talented sidemen. Several of the players he chose for his early fusion work went on to success in their own bands. His guitar player John McLaughlin branched out, forming his own fusion group Mahavishnu Orchestra . Blending Indian classical music, jazz, and psychedelic rock, they created
9360-417: The time, on an album of devotional songs, Love Devotion Surrender , which featured recordings of Coltrane compositions including a movement of A Love Supreme . McLaughlin has also worked with the jazz composers Carla Bley and Gil Evans . In 1979, he formed a short-lived funk fusion power trio named Trio of Doom with drummer Tony Williams and bassist Jaco Pastorius . Their only live performance
9464-553: The toughest music because I knew if I could do that, I could do anything." Progressive rock , with its affinity for long solos, diverse influences, non-standard time signatures, and complex music had very similar musical values as jazz fusion. Some prominent examples of progressive rock mixed with elements of fusion is the music of Gong , King Crimson , Ozric Tentacles , and Emerson, Lake & Palmer . Jazz rock fusion's technically challenging guitar solos, bass solos, and odd-metered, syncopated drumming started to be incorporated in
9568-455: The track Florianapolis , among others. In the early 1990s, he toured with his trio on the Qué Alegría album. By this time, Eckhardt had left, with McLaughlin and Gurtu joined by bass player Dominique Di Piazza. In the latter stages of this trio's life, they were joined on tour by Katia Labèque alone, or by Katia and her sister Marielle, with footage of the latter configuration forming part of
9672-399: The volume up and write music that was more dramatic and made your hair stand on end." The musician and comedian Darryl Rhoades also paid tribute to McLaughlin's influence. In the 1970s, he led the "Hahavishnu Orchestra", which did parodies of the funk, rock and jazz musical styles of the era. McLaughlin was married to Eve when he was a disciple of Sri Chinmoy . For a time he lived with
9776-815: The world this movement grew due to bands like Magma in France, Passport in Germany, Time , Leb i Sol and September in Yugoslavia, and guitarists Jan Akkerman (The Netherlands), Volker Kriegel (Germany), Terje Rypdal (Norway), Jukka Tolonen (Finland), Ryo Kawasaki (Japan), and Kazumi Watanabe (Japan). Jazz metal is the fusion of jazz fusion and jazz rock with heavy metal . Animals as Leaders ' albums The Joy of Motion (2014) and The Madness of Many (2016) have been described as progressive metal combined with jazz fusion. Panzerballett blends jazz with heavy metal. Jazz pop (or pop-jazz, also called jazzy pop )
9880-493: The world's greatest guitarist. In 2017, McLaughlin was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music . John McLaughlin was born on 4 January 1942 to a family of musicians in Doncaster , South Yorkshire , England. His mother Mary was a concert violinist; his father John was an engineer, who was of Irish descent. The younger John McLaughlin was predominantly raised by his mother and grandmother; his father,
9984-517: Was at the time a mutual dissatisfaction with the results of their performance. On 28 July 2007, McLaughlin performed at Eric Clapton 's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Bridgeview, Illinois . On 28 April 2008, the recording sessions from the previous year surfaced on the album Floating Point , featuring the rhythm section of keyboardist Louis Banks , bassist Hadrien Feraud , percussionist Sivamani and drummer Ranjit Barot bolstered on each track by
10088-435: Was considered a "soulful" and "influential" voice. However, Kenny G was criticized by both fusion and jazz fans, and some musicians, while having become a huge commercial success. Music reviewer George Graham argues that the "so-called 'smooth jazz' sound of people like Kenny G has none of the fire and creativity that marked the best of the fusion scene during its heyday in the 1970s." In the 1990s, another kind of fusion took
10192-465: Was influenced more by Jimi Hendrix and had played with English rock musicians Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger before creating the Mahavishnu Orchestra around the same time that Corea started Return to Forever. McLaughlin had been a member of Tony Williams's Lifetime. He brought to his music many of the elements that interested other musicians in the 1960s and early 1970s: counterculture, rock and roll, electronic instruments, solo virtuosity, experimentation,
10296-439: Was influential in bringing jazz fusion to popularity with Miles Davis, playing with Davis on five of his studio albums, including Davis' first gold-certified Bitches Brew , and one live album, Live-Evil . Speaking of himself, McLaughlin has stated that the guitar is simply "part of his body", and he feels more comfortable when a guitar is present. In 2010, Jeff Beck said: "John McLaughlin has given us so many different facets of
10400-461: Was inspired by McLaughlin's decision to follow the Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy , to whom he had been introduced in 1970 by Larry Coryell's manager. The album was dedicated to Chinmoy, with one of the Guru 's poems printed on the liner notes . It was on this album that McLaughlin took the name "Mahavishnu". In 1973, McLaughlin collaborated with Carlos Santana , also a disciple of Sri Chinmoy at
10504-520: Was inspired by free jazz and punk. Examples of this style include Lydia Lunch 's Queen of Siam , James Chance and the Contortions , who mixed soul music with free jazz and punk rock, and the Lounge Lizards , the first group to call themselves punk jazz . John Zorn took note of the emphasis on speed and dissonance that was becoming prevalent in punk rock and incorporated them into free jazz with
10608-428: Was not well received financially and critically; McLaughlin quit the group. By 1966, while working in pop and jazz sessions, McLaughlin encountered personal tragedies from his musical peers who succumbed to drug addictions and death. As a response, McLaughlin would gradually stop using drugs and pursue a spiritual lifestyle, which would be a recurring motif of his music career. At the same time, McLaughlin experienced
10712-537: Was on 3 March 1979 at the Havana Jam Festival (2–4 March 1979) in Cuba , part of a US State Department sponsored visit to Cuba. Later on 8 March 1979 the group recorded the songs they had written for the festival at Columbia Studios, New York, on 52nd Street. Recollections from this performance are captured on Ernesto Juan Castellanos's documentary Havana Jam '79 and CD Trio of Doom . McLaughlin's 1970s electric band,
10816-468: Was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ". In 2009, DownBeat included McLaughlin in its unranked list of "75 Great Guitarists", in the "Modern Jazz Maestros" category. In 2012, Guitar World magazine ranked him 63rd on its top 100 list. In 2010, Jeff Beck called McLaughlin "the best guitarist alive", and Pat Metheny has also described him as
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