When Shakti co-founders John McLaughlin (guitar) and Zakir Hussain (tabla) first directed their virtuosity towards exploring common ground between Eastern and Western musical traditions – starting in private sessions, then on their 1975 debut album – the notion of such a hybrid was so novel that fans, industry executives, and even the media expressed concerned bafflement. Is McLaughlin, former collaborator with the likes of Miles Davis and Tony Williams and the leader of the titanic jazz-rock ju

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension Offer First New Recording in Five Yearsto Benefit the Jazz Foundation of America during Covid-19 Crisis. The blues may be the only thing even more universal than the current global pandemic we are all operating through. With this in mind, pathbreaking guitarist and bandleader John McLaughlin has convened his longstanding band the 4th Dimension -- Gary Husband (keyboards), Etienne M'Bappe (bass), and Ranjit Barot (drums, konnakol) -- via the Internet to recor

John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra live at the North Sea Jazz Festival • 1986 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John McLaughlin- guitar Bill Evans - saxophones Jim Beard - keyboards Jonas Hellborg - bass Danny Gottlieb - drums | Avant Garde Music

John McLaughlin Mahavishnu Orchestra (Montreux Jazz Festival 1974) Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Guitar Jean-Luc Ponty - Violin Gayle Moran - Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Hammond Organ Ralphe Armstrong - Bass Narada Michael Walden - Drums Steve Kindler - Violin Carol Shive - Violin Marsha Westbrook - Violin Phillip Hirschi - Cello Steve Frankovitch - Horns Bob Knapp - Flute, Percussion | Jukebox