John McLaughlin
Guitar, Composer
"Though Larry Coryell was recording brilliant
jazz-rock lines on his hollowbody Gibson with Gary Burton in 1967,
McLaughlin was the first jazz guitarist to play complex altered
scales, stinging bent notes and odd meters on a distorting solidbody
at ear ringing volumes. His work on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
and In A Silent Way set the stage for the fusion guitar
movement of the 1970s. By the time he formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra
and released Inner Mounting Flame he had become the de facto
father of the genre." - Guitar Player magazine January 1992.
John McLaughlin has recorded innumerable
sessions of which the following is only a selection. For a more
complete (but probably not definitive!) list see a
discography compiled by Johann Heidenbauer.
Albums recorded
with the Mahvishnu Orchestra: - Inner Mounting Flame -
Columbia KC 31067
- Birds of fire - Columbia PC 31996
-
Live - Columbia KC 32766
- Apocalypse - Columbia KC
32957
- Visions of the emerald beyond - Columbia PC 33411
- Inner worlds - Columbia PC 33908
- Adventures In
RadioLand - Relativity 88561-8081-1
Albums as a leader:
- Electric guitarist - Columbia JC 35326
- Belo
Horizonte - Warner Brothers BSK3619
- Music spoken here
- Warner Brothers 23723-1
- Que alegria - Verve 837280-2
Other sessions:
- Miles Davis
- Bitches'
Brew Columbia CS 9995/6
- In A Silent Way Columbia CS
9875
- Tony William's Lifetime
- Emergency! Polydor 25-3001
- Turn it over Polydor 24-4021
- Larry Coryell
- Spaces Vanguard 79345
- Shakti
- Shakti Columbia
PC 34162
- Handful of beauty Columbia PC 34372
- Natural
elements Columbia JC 34980
Joe Germuska
j-germuska@nwu.edu -- 708/467-3037
WNUR-FM, Northwestern University
Last Updated: 95/09/14