Back in 1971, when guitar-god John McLaughlin left Miles Davis and (Tony William’s Lifetime) to form the groundbreaking Mahavishnu Orchestra, he was the first to combine the fire of Hendrix-drenched ...
Over thirty years ago the original Mahavishnu Orchestra was making big waves in the music world. The band, led by the legendary English jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, had an album on the Billboard ...
When John McLaughlin looked through his archives in preparation for an upcoming tour celebrating his pioneering Seventies jazz-rock outfit the Mahavishnu Orchestra, he was shocked by how out-there his ...
Even if John McLaughlin had never released a single solo album or formed his pioneering fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, he would still be regarded as a visionary who changed the game for guitarists ...
As you might imagine, quite a lot of thought goes into planning your final tour ever. "It's not a light decision to not tour again, but that really is the situation," said John McLaughlin, the ...
An intense night of jazz awaits those attending The Hair Cut's concert June 21 at Stage on Herr. The Harrisburg-area band doesn't perform typical jazz standards. Instead, they are a self-described ...
Have you ever gone to a concert that was so overwhelmingly stimulating, so crammed with virtuosic musicianship, so spiritually uplifting, that you cried tears of gratitude at the end of it and forgot ...
Rick Laird performs as part of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1973. Credit: vCaem/Hanekroot/Redferns Rick Laird, best known as a founding member of the jazz fusion band ...
Journey guitarist and founding member Neal Schon is calling time on the band’s career after more than 50 years and 100 million album sales. The Final Frontier farewell tour will see the band perform ...
Sam Bush has been a pioneering musician for the past three decades. His virtuoso mandolin and fiddle playing has graced hundreds of albums and, of course, he's been a member some extremely important ...
Rick Laird, whose bass guitar skills graced a number of jazz rock’s most prominent fusion bands in the 1970s, died Sunday at age 80. No cause of death was given, but he recently had entered hospice ...
He played with jazz greats and helped make music history with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. But he gave it up in his 40s to become a photographer. By Giovanni Russonello Rick Laird, a bassist who played a ...
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