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John McLaughlin
Sign in to saveEnglish guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 1981
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Lost in translation
- The first four centuries of music for the organ
- Ring out!
- The art of playing the modern carillon
- Matisse portraits
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Film & TV
Acting · Yorkshire, England, UK
John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. One of the pioneers of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, Indian classical music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues.
Known for
- Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 — Self2024
- John McLaughlin - Live At A To Jazz Festival — guitar2022
- John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 20222022
- Santana - Montreux Jazz Festival 20152015
- VA - Jazz Intermezzo Vol.22013
- John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension - Live At 33th Leverkusener Jazztage — electric guitar2012
- Produced by George Martin — Self2012
- Santana & McLaughlin: Invitation to Illumination - Live at Montreux2011
- The Santana Story: Angels and Demons — Self2011
- John McLaughlin & Billy Cobham: Live at Montreux 2010 — Self - guitar2010
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-01-04
Discography
Member of
- The Tony Williams Lifetime1969–1971
- Trio of Doom1979–1979
- Remember Shaktisince 1997
- Shakti
- Fuse One
- Duffy's Nucleus
- Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Skruff
- The Free Spirits
- John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension
- John McLaughlin Duo
- Danny Thompson Trio
- Five Peace Band
- Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes
- The One Truth Band
- John McLaughlin Trio
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 235,820
- Total plays
- 2,320,284
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John McLaughlin (b. 1942), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English jazz- and jazz-fusion guitarist and composer. Born on 4th January 1942 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, he played with Tony Williams Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew. His 1970s electric band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused eclectic jazz and rock with eastern and Indian influence
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 777
- Cited by
- 63,880
Research areas
Most cited works
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans2016 · 10,290 cit
- Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease2012 · 4,837 cit
- Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci2010 · 2,576 cit
- Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 472011 · 1,352 cit
- Disease-Specific Alterations in the Enteric Virome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease2015 · 1,309 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,681x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,730x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,340x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,860x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1942-01-04 ) 4 January 1942 (age 84) , Doncaster , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Genres
- Jazz fusion world fusion progressive rock psychedelic rock
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Guitar piano
- Years active
- 1963–present
- Labels
- Douglas Columbia Verve Warner Bros. Abstract Logix
- Website
- www .johnmclaughlin .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.johnmclaughlin.com
- Image
- JohnMcLaughinCrossroads2007.jpg
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- John McLaughlin
- date of birth
- 1942-01-04
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- social media followers
- 23582
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John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also previously known as Mahavishnu, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues. After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with drummer Tony Williams' group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his 1969–72 electric jazz fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Live-Evil, and On the Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Classical, Indian and other influences. In 1974, he helped found Shakti, a seminal Indian-Jazz rock fusion band with Indian violinist L. Shankar and percussionists Zakir Hussain and Vikku Vinayakram.
McLaughlin's solo on "Miles Beyond" from his album Live at Ronnie Scott's won the 2018 Grammy Award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo. He has been awarded multiple "Guitarist of the Year" and "Best Jazz Guitarist" awards from magazines such as DownBeat and Guitar Player based on reader polls. In 2003, he was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In 2009, DownBeat included McLaughlin in its unranked list of "75 Great Guitarists", in the "Modern Jazz Maestros" category. In 2012, Guitar World magazine ranked him 63rd on its top 100 list. In 2010, Jeff Beck called McLaughlin "the best guitarist alive", and Pat Metheny has also described him as the world's greatest guitarist. In 2017, McLaughlin was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music.