A week ago, on November 10, I caught guitarist John McLaughlin's farewell US tour at NJPAC in Newark, NJ. I haven't paid much attention to his solo work, but I love the four albums (three studio, one live) by the original lineup of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, as well as his work with Miles Davis on Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Live-Evil, On The Corner and Big Fun and his collaboration with Carlos Santana, Love Devotion Surrender. And this show was explicitly billed as being all about that Mahavishnu era of shredtastic prog-fusion, so I knew I had to be there.
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Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – November 2017
