Over thirty years ago the original Mahavishnu Orchestra was making big waves in the music world. The band, led by the legendary English jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, had an album on the Billboard ...

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Jay Buchanan says he found inspiration in John McLaughlin’s ability to make different pieces feeling like different drugs ...

With the completion of legendary guitarist John McLaughlin's 2007 tour with his new group The 4th Dimension—his first fusion tour in North America in nearly a decade, there are plenty of opportunities ...

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When John McLaughlin looked through his archives in preparation for an upcoming tour celebrating his pioneering Seventies jazz-rock outfit the Mahavishnu Orchestra, he was shocked by how out-there his ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Mahavishnu John McLaughlin came out of Yorkshire in England in the '60s playing rhythm and blues and ...

A lot of people look back at '70s fusion with the same derision that still dogs disco, but the effects of both continue to be felt. The elements actually being "fused" in fusion are jazz and rock, two ...

Rick Laird performs as part of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1973. Credit: vCaem/Hanekroot/Redferns Rick Laird, best known as a founding member of the jazz fusion band ...