Jazz fusion legend John McLaughlin might have made his name on a string of Gibson guitars and the odd Strat, but he’s pivoted ...

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Electric guitar titan John McLaughlin already made waves earlier this year, when he announced This Moment, the first new album from his fusion ensemble, Shakti, since 1977. Now, McLaughlin has teamed ...

Virtuoso guitarist John McLaughlin has reigned at the top of the charts for the past 40 years and continues to astound his peers. British guitarist Jeff Beck calls him “the best guitarist alive” and ...

All About Jazz is celebrating John McLaughlin's birthday today! John McLaughlin, also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitarist from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England. He came to prominence ...

John McLaughlin has made brilliant and groundbreaking music over many decades, with The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis and many more – but arguably it’s his fusion group Shakti that has meant the ...

It has been a while alright. 46 years have slipped by since Shakti's last studio album, but the band founded by John McLaughlin and Zakir Hussain in late '73, is back to celebrate its 50th anniversary ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - In the midst of John McLaughlin's fall tour with his latest band, the 4th Dimension, the guitarist is upbeat about having returned to the road with jazz-rock rhythms pulsating ...

Death, disability and pestilence have kept the band Shakti from performing together for almost 10 years. But a new album, a miracle cure for John McLaughlin’s arthritic right hand, the end of the ...