The last three minutes of "Desire and the Comforter" from Electric Dreams say it all about John McLaughlin. He just tears apart his electric guitar with cascades of funk, blues, rock, jazz, and ...

There's even McLaughlin the occasional banjoist on "Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs from Electric Dreams (Columbia, 1978), the sole album by his fusion-centric One Truth Band. And there's plenty more, ...

"I'm a fusion guy." So says John McLaughlin, making it as plain as can be. "Fusion," in the world of jazz and pop, is a word fraught with baggage. McLaughlin doesn't carry any of it. As a ...

While leading the jazz-rock fusion trailblazers Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early ‘70s, John McLaughlin created a new language on the electric guitar. His free-spirited and often frenetic ...

McLaughlin's experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism – in conjunction with the rigs associated with the rock and proto-metal players of the late 1960s and early 70s ...

Indeed, McLaughlin had written and played ragtime, rock, free jazz, modern jazz, fusion, world music, and even classical music. What the jazz traditionalist in Feather couldn't see at the time, ...