This is my Album of the Year, since it is one of the finest albums of the last quarter-century. Shakti was formed in 1973, as McLaughlin sought deeper musical fulfillment following the success of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John McLaughlin's touring career ended three years ago, but before he packed it in, he recorded a final live album, Live at ...

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 ...

Grammy-winning American musician John McLaughlin Williams studied violin, conducting, and composition. The multi-talented musician has guest-conducted orchestras all over the world. He provides ...

It goes without saying that John McLaughlin is an outright legend. A jazz-fusion hero on steroids, the electric guitarist has worked with everyone from Miles Davis and Carlos Santana to Tony Williams ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

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 ...

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MONTEREY, California (Reuters) - Nearly 40 years after helping pioneer jazz fusion with Miles Davis, guitar maestro John McLaughlin still faces harsh critics who dismiss such technically demanding, ...

At some point, jazz fans inevitably play "Two Degrees of Miles Davis." Because of the great trumpeter's protean career, the puzzle has easy solutions for virtually every major jazz player since the ...