![]() ![]() In 1968, jazz in the UK took a major turn of direction moving from experimental, often free and/or atonal jazz, to take on board the energy and the electricity of rock - while many young jazz musicians were finding work doing sessions for rock musicians, in a flurry of cross-fertilisation. Born 4th January 1942 in Kirk Sandall, Yorkshire, England In 1969 MCLAUGHLIN recorded the ground-breaking "Extrapolation" (with. We pushed at boundaries even more, didn't we?" When I went to the USA to join Tony in Lifetime it was crazy. The Graham Bond Organisation with Baker and Bruce was a powerful band pushing boundaries. But even then the music played with Georgie Fame was good R'n'B. However, Montgomery was not the only influence MCLAUGHLIN recently said: "I grew up in the 60's listening to the music of Coltrane and Miles. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN was first recognised to be a new innovative guitarist whilst working as part of Danny Thompson's Trio, (their album "Trio Live 1967", was not to be issued for several decades, however), for instance merging bebop and Wes Montgomery's guitar style. He joined the Graham Bond Organisation (with Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker), had a brief spell with Brian Auger's Trinity.īritish jazz by the mid to late 60's had begun to develop its own independent voice (rather than doing largely inferior USA jazz impressions). However, during this time JOHN MCLAUGHLIN was paying his dues and became a sought after session guitarist for pop recordings, while playing blues and jazz for pleasure for instance recordings with blues harpist Duffy Powers and working with Alexis Korner. He first came the British public's attention in the mid 60's as a member of Georgie Fame's Blues Flames, in what BBC Four Jazz Britannia series, rather anachronistically called 'Britain's formative jazz rock years'. At the end of the 50's he was playing with Pete Douchar & His Professors of Ragtime. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN's mother was a violinist although JOHN starting learning piano from the age of 9 but within two years took up the guitar. With his latest album "Industrial Zen", JOHN MCLAUGHLIN demonstrates he has still much to say and do in jazz rock innovation. ![]() JOHN MCLAUGHLIN is one of the most important jazz rock fusion musicians who goes back to the very beginning of the genre in the early 60's in England, was instrumental through Lifetime, Miles Davis's seminal works and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in progressing the genre. ![]()
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