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Date of Birth
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04-January-1942
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Place of Birth
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Doncaster
(Yorkshire, England)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu, John Mc Laughlin, John McLaughlin (musicien), John McLaughlin (Musiker), John McLaughlin (musiker), John McLaughlin (muzyk), Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, McLaughlin, John, John Mclaughlin
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Profession
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Musician, Songwriter, Guitarist, Composer
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John McLaughlin, also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer. His music includes many genres of jazz, and rock, which he coupled with an interest in Indian classical music to become one of the pioneering figures in fusion.
In 2010 guitarist Jeff Beck called him "the best guitarist alive". In 2003, McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
After contributing to several key British groups of the early sixties and making his first solo record Extrapolation he moved to the USA where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On The Corner. His 1970's electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.
McLaughlin was formerly married to the French pianist Katia Labeque, who was also a member of his band in the early 1980s.
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