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John McLaughlin – Liberation Time (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:59 minutes | 416 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abstract Logix
For more than five decades, John McLaughlin has deployed his peerless guitar technique, compositional gifts, and imagination in service of a deeply personal higher calling, forging a vast legacy unmatched in improvised music. Now as the world reels from the toll of the ongoing viral-induced global lockdown, McLaughlin reflects on both the perils and potential of this challenging moment with ‘Liberation Time’.
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John McLaughlin – The Montreux Years (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:38 minutes | 955 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Unlike saxophonists or pianists, jazz guitarists are hardly legions. But when they get noticed, they often become a genre on their own. John McLaughlin falls squarely into this category. To the point that the English guitarist born in 1942 is one of the most important figures in jazz fusion. Sparkling in Miles Davis’ first electric band in the late 60s (he is at the heart of In A Silent Way, the trumpeter’s revolutionary album), McLaughlin will become a superstar in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a revered formation offering a daring cocktail combining jazz, rock and Indian music. Whether he works with Miles, Santana, Tony Williams or Jaco Pastorius, John McLaughlin has always deployed this incredible combination of virtuosity mixed with mysticism and especially taste. Alternating acoustic and electric projects, tirelessly pursuing his experimentation and inscribing his art in a personal spiritual quest, he has always made each of his concerts moments of rare communion with his audience. The Montreux Years is the perfect proof of this! Released in March 2022, this album brings together eight tracks (selected by the master himself) recorded at the prestigious Swiss festival between 1978 and 2016. Over almost four decades, McLaughlin has conducted the Mahavishnu Orchestra (with Bill Evans, Mitchell Foreman, Jonas Hellborg and Danny Gottlieb), as well as with Paco de Lucia, but also in the bands One Truth (with Stu Goldberg, L. Shankar, Tom Stevens and Sonship Theus), Heart Of Things (with Gary Thomas, Jim Beard, Matt Garrison and Dennis Chambers), Free Spirits (with Joey De Francesco and Dennis Chambers) and 4th Dimension (with with Gary Husband, Étienne M’bappé and Ranjit Barot). The ideal setting to taste the art of a musician who has never stopped putting his incandescent virtuosity at the service of his music.
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Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (1973) [MFSL SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:54 minutes | Scans included | 1,7 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 905 MB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2080
A hopelessly misunderstood record in its time by Santana fans — they were still reeling from the radical direction shift toward jazz on Caravanserai and praying it was an aberration — it was greeted by Santana devotees with hostility, contrasted with kindness from major-league critics like Robert Palmer. To hear this recording in the context of not only Carlos Santana’s development as a guitarist, but as the logical extension of the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis influencing rock musicians — McLaughlin, of course, was a former Davis sideman — this extension makes perfect sense in the post-Sonic Youth, post-rock era. With the exception of Coltrane’s “Naima” and McLaughlin’s “Meditation,” this album consists of merely three extended guitar jams played on the spiritual ecstasy tip — both men were devotees of guru Shri Chinmoy at the time. The assembled band included members of Santana’s band and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in Michael Shrieve, Billy Cobham, Doug Rauch, Armando Peraza, Jan Hammer (playing drums!), and Don Alias. But it is the presence of the revolutionary jazz organist Larry Young — a colleague of McLaughlin’s in Tony Williams’ Lifetime band — that makes the entire project gel. He stands as the great communicator harmonically between the two very different guitarists whose ideas contrasted enough to complement one another in the context of Young’s aggressive approach to keep the entire proceeding in the air. In the acknowledgement section of Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme,” which opens the album, Young creates a channel between Santana’s riotous, transcendent, melodic runs and McLaughlin’s rapid-fire machine-gun riffing. Young’ double-handed striated chord voicings offered enough for both men to chew on, leaving free-ranging territory for percussive effects to drive the tracks from underneath. Check “Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord,” which was musically inspired by Bobby Womack’s “Breezing” and dynamically foreshadowed by Pharoah Sanders’ read of it, or the insanely knotty yet intervallically transcendent “The Life Divine,” for the manner in which Young’s organ actually speaks both languages simultaneously. Young is the person who makes the room for the deep spirituality inherent in these sessions to be grasped for what it is: the interplay of two men who were not merely paying tribute to Coltrane, but trying to take his ideas about going beyond the realm of Western music to communicate with the language of the heart as it united with the cosmos. After three decades, Love Devotion Surrender still sounds completely radical and stunningly, movingly beautiful.
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Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia – Saturday Night in San Francisco (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:38 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Latin Jazz, Guitar Virtuoso
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
The beloved, historic & previously unreleased recording by the famous Guitar Trio: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia – ‘Saturday Night in San Francisco’ will be released on July 1st, 2022.
The iconic precursor “Friday Night In San Francisco”, recorded at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on December 5, 1980 (and originally released in 1981), is considered one of all-time best-selling jazz/instrumental albums. Treasured for capturing three legendary and diverse guitar virtuosos at the height of their unparalleled mastery, it is a milestone album that went beyond the niche audience with its unique mix of jazz, fusion, flamenco, and Mediterranean music.
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Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia – Friday Night In San Francisco (1981/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 41:01 minutes | 1,71 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Friday Night In San Francisco is widely considered the most influential of all live acoustic guitar albums. This primarily live and unprecedented set captured at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre features the meeting of three legendary guitarists: John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Paco De Lucia. Its highlights include McLaughlin’s duet with De Lucia on the Gismonti tune, “Frevo Rasgado,” the breathtaking duet version of Chick Corea’s “Short Tales Of The Black Forest” and the studio version of McLaughlin’s “Guardian Angel.” Experience one of music’s most historic events in pristine hi-res. Absolutely essential.
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Santana and McLaughlin – Live At Montreux 2011 (2013)
FLAC(Tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 134:46 minutes | 2,99 MB
Source: Blu-Ray (Eagle Rock Entertainment > LPCM 24/96 track)
Cover sleeve & Digital booklet
On July 1st, 2011, Montreux hosted the reunion of two master guitarists, Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, with their Invitation To Illumination concert. Both musicians have been regulars at Montreux across the years but this was the first time they headlined their own concert together. The show features most of the tracks from their classic 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender mixed in with a wealth of other material. The evening was a showcase of supreme musical virtuosity and spirituality and typified the approach of these two great artists. It is certainly a performance not to be missed.
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The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin – The Inner Mounting Flame (1971/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:01:43 minutes | 1.29 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Columbia/Legacy
The Inner Mounting Flame is Mahavishnu Orchestra’s debut studio album originally released in 1971 by Columbia Records. The jazz-rock group performed tracks composed by leader John McLaughlin. (more…)
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