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John McLaughlin - The Essential (2007)

Posted By: thingska

Date: 2 Jul 2010 01:25:19

Unlike the recent release The Complete Eric Clapton, this compilation of another master guitarist has all the signs of having some thought and effort put into the track selection. The tracks have picked from McLaughlin's full career whilst being "borrowed" from a broad variety of recording labels. So the listener is exposed to McLaughlin from being part of Graham Bond's Organisation through Lifetime, Miles, Mahavishnu right on to McLaughlin's latest album, Industrial Zen. Therefore there are a very large number of musicians to be heard playing with McLaughlin here: indeed, a veritable who's who of the modern jazz scene. The liner notes are excellent by (the Jaco Pastorius biographer) Bill Milkowski, and there is also a pretty thorough set of details of the tracks used. And where necessary, apologies have been made either for the need for some track length editing of the original track (but still giving you approximately 88 minutes on each disc), or indicating where the compilers have not being able to access Arjen's Bag from the seminal album Extrapolation (because the record label didn't want to license - shame on them). But instead an alternative version has been found, to me an unknown version of the tune, known as Follow Your Heart, when McLaughlin was briefly part of a Joe Farrell group. You are moved from McLaughlin the bebop player of the early 60's, to the innovative jazz rock fusionist of the 70's, to his Indo-jazz rock and flamenco/Latin jazz fusion explorations and through to the modern day - and via the digression into modern serious music. One minor negative comment: perhaps more tracks representing his output from the 90's might have been provided? Nevertheless, as a starter for a music fan who comes to his music for the first time and wants to hear why John McLaughlin is seen and heard as one of the best guitarists in world, this double CD is an excellent place to start.

John McLaughlin - The Essential (2007)

Tracklist:

CD1:
01. Doxy - (Live, with Graham Bond) 04:38
02. Spectrum - (with Tony Williams Lifetime) 08:53
03. Marbles 04:14
04. Right Off - (with Miles Davis) 17:20
05. Follow Your Heart - (with Joe Farrell Quartet) 06:54
06. Rawalpindi Blues - (with Carla Bley/Paul Haines) 04:37
07. Goodbye Porkpie Hat 03:19
08. Peace One 07:16
09. The Dance of Maya - (with Mahavishnu Orchestra) 07:19
10. Birds Of Fire - (with Mahavishnu Orchestra) 05:44
11. A Love Supreme - (Part 1: Acknowledgement, with Carlos Santana) 07:50

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CD2:
01. Wings Of Karma - (with Mahavishnu Orchestra) 06:11
02. India - (with Shakti) 12:40
03. Do You Hear The Voices You Left Behind 07:47
04. My Foolish Heart 03:30
05. Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs 06:28
06. Dark Prince - (with Jaco Pastorius/Tony Williams/Trio Of Doom) 03:54
07. David - (with Al Di Meola/Paco De Lucia/The Guitar Trio) 06:33
08. Aura - (Intro, with Miles Davis) 04:48
09. Animato - (Third Movement) 08:37
10. Two Sisters 03:55
11. Belo Horizonte 06:35
12. Wayne's Way 07:06

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