Over the past decade guitarist John McLaughlin, other than working on his Industrial Zen (Verve, 2006) project, has devoted much of his time to a new version of his ground-breaking mid-'70s Indo-Jazz ...

John McLaughlin's “Guardian Angels" must be on the ultra-short list of “most iconic jazz/fusion songs clocking in under 1 minute." The song takes us back to the time when experimental fusion artists ...

It’s fair to say that among fusion aficionados, John McLaughlin is the father of jazz-rock guitar. His experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism in conjunction with the rigs ...

Talk about a trial by heavy metal fire! English guitar giant John McLaughlin and Indian tabla drum virtuoso Zakir Hussain had just released the 1975 debut album by Shakti — their all-acoustic, Indian ...

To hear them tell it, the cofounders of Shakti — guitar great John McLaughlin, 81, and tabla master Zakir Hussain, 72 — are ecstatic whenever the group reunites for a concert. So expect the group’s ...

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