john mclaughlin - blue in green -

[wesman0120]

My Butcher has tastier chops, who likes fretless bass anyway ,everytime you go away you take a piece of meat with you.

[sergiolopez3349]

Is that a fretless bass?!

[videocanone]

Interesting version of this tune, he first recorded it on My Goals Beyond. Nice instrumentation. I like how he tries out some new guitar/band combination and pushes the limits of music out further and further every few years. With all due respect to Coltrane, I think JM has had more influence on the development of music, jazz, and instruments, but its hard to know what Coltrane would be doing if he had lived. Some artists get drama-fame dying young. JM is a survivor-artist. Coltrane is a memory.

[MrTwisterband]

I bet Jm CAN FINGERPICK -BUT BOY-WHAT A PICK PLAYER-S

UPREME

[makakodelamor]

all this mr nobody people talking about if JM can do this or not.....just listen and go home and practice like im sure he did.....poor player is the one that can't express...not the one that doesn't know this or that technique....and this guy sure can express....

[markmarktarmann]

@makakodelamor i agree with the other "mister nobody" fast staccatto riffs a la de lucia demiola de mclaughlin are boring. your opinion is that he can do anything because he can do something. yours truly , mister other nobody.

[makakodelamor]

@markmarktarmann i agree that they are boring...but the musician critic attitude is more boring that the stacatto riffs....you want to play?..then go and do it.....your instrument is waiting for you!!!.......i feel a lot of frustrated musician talking arround youtube....maybe they should go and play!!.......im very happy to be a mr nobody....prefer to stay like this!!!...other thing: de Lucia, Di Meola and Mc Laughlin play VERY different...maybe you can listen a little better also!!!.....

[makakodelamor]

@markmarktarmann i think you didn't understand my opinion at all!!..anyway...that's the bad thing of comunicating like this!!...sorry if i offended you!!!....i just like when musicians can express, hewever they want to do it....and this guy has really interesting electric guitar playing!!....i don't play like this, i don't even play jazz....but i'm happy playing what i can do!......it's not a vertical thing to play.......and i think this guy also knows that.....

[markmarktarmann]

@makakodelamor when you start with "mr nobody" you re bound to offend someone. if i agree with the other mister nobody, then i guess i am nobody too. all opinions are valid. why do we categorize other viewpoints w/:"hater" "wannabe" "nobody"? self elevation. on the other hand i agree with you,we should all just refrain from this 6 days a week &practice our instruments , and then blow shit at each other just 1 day a weekor look for a gig. or go on a picnic. ciao thanks 4 yer polite response

[sixstringer82]

don johnson jumper

[gillan5]

John Mc Laughlin can not fingerpick. What a poor player.

[TheBellesProject]

@gillan5 jejj

[dorian411]

@gillan5 your comment is foolish as well as ignorant. AAR, who is a good player then?

[gillan5]

@dorian411 Can`t you understand that my comment was a sarcastic reply to the foolish comment of Rexicano accusing Mc Laughlin of not bein able to fingerpick. Sure he can not fingerpick - he is playing with a pick.

[dorian411]

@gillan5 My apologies to you.

[gillan5]

@dorian411 Thank you!

[Rexicano]

I have to agree with so many of the people writing here that this is not good.

McL was always way better on electric.

He never really got into acoustic in a way I like to hear it...and not being able to finger pick like so many great acoustic players do (Towner, Bensusan), means he's always going to be limited. Fast staccato riffs get boring quickly. Bad influence of Al Di Meola?

I liked Shakti because McL was with the great L. Shankar.

Kai E. on Bass here is really great.

[dorian411]

@Rexicano I do not think you actually listened to this piece,

[TheStupidcomment]

Crap like this gives jazz a bad name.

[evankiefl]

is he pissed off at the drummer at the start? I can't tell haha. I'd be pissed off at that drummer he was fucking erverything up

[LeGall1989]

Asquerosamente insoportable john mclauglin...lo unico que hace es mostrar cuan rapido puede tocar y no cuanta musica puede hacer sonar, Kai Echardt y Trilok de la puta madre

[gillesduhem]

what a flawed and massacred cover of a masterpiece...

[sontesn1]

Its sad that the sound quality is so poor, because this is really a great version! Buy the cd!

[tiluriso]

John Mclaughlin was always his own man, his style all his own, great version...by the way, I love Miles Davis, but as you all know, it was actually Bill Evans who wrote this tune, as well as " Nardis"- which is also credited to Davis, but then again, Miles wrote "Donna Lee" - credited to The Bird.

[0362868]

poor John can't access the sublime no matter how hard he tries.. He loves Bill Evans and Miles but doesn't seem to be able to let time stop long enough for the magic to happen. He wears a relentless monkey on his back that forces him to over state everything he plays. The mood he so aspires to eludes his bed bug touch.

[dorian411]

Number person, yeah, such a gracelss hack. No finese. Primate bug-a-boos hauting him. Absolutely no magic. That is why Miles brought John in with his New Directions In Music and that JMac was his favorite guitarist. From your comment I assume the only magic you know about is sleight of hand.

[0362868]

I saw John most recently at the Monterey jazz fest and to my taste, he was to relentless, from 0-90 with nothing in between and far less music than Mimi Fox or the great Jim Hall. John IS lovable. I really liked him with Shakti and he played slow and lyrical. Magic is not trick.

[dorian411]

Number person, you really do not get JM. He covers the gamut of music taste and style. You really cannot have listened to much of him. Plus to say that you enjoyed Shakti because it was slow and lyrical is absurd. He and Zakir drove that ensemble like a high speed bullet train. You think others make "more" music, well enjoy them. For me, he is truly a Master who has created the most devastingly emotional and creative music of all time. For me, there is only one "greater": John Coltrane.

[0362868]

I was saying I like the lyricism of Shakti whan he played that way. I realize they played fast. I saw them three times. It didn't need mentioning because it's obvious. I didn't know your love for him was so deep. That's quite a gold star your gave him..To each their own...right Dorian?

[dorian411]

My love for JM's playing (and music) is both long and deep. BIG gold star. Correct.

Jim Hall? Why not mention Jimmy Rainey, or certainly Herb Ellis? Mimi Fox? You have got to be kinng... Cheers!

[arn123321]

I like John McLaughlin personally, but I have to agree. This cover fell flat.

[CrabNebola]

Kai Echardt on bass. Marvelous!

[dorian411]

as I bounce around Utube listening to the many versions of this song by the multitudes, what stands out for me is how UNIQUE JM does this tune. He ALWAYS performs songs with HIS voice, and a voice no one else does.

[steffenbrix]

This is brilliant! My favourite McLaughlin trio and period......!

[red5media]

they change songs all the time, that's jazz. i like the ending, it had original feel for blue in green. they probably just felt it different that night.

[llafutaal]

I think John plays as he wants. His musical knowledge will be bigger than we know and if he talks about ."..how to play "sure rest of musicians will be impressed by his explanations or words.

[simlesby]

JM knows full well how to play this beautifully...check his version on "my goal's beyond' for proof...I think he thinks that in a live sitch people want to see/hear the dizzying runs, no matter in what context...that's entertainment, y'all....

[kernalkorn]

This song on "My Goals Beyond" is one that still blows me away every time I hear it.

[mikeleighmusic]

He plays fast cos he can. Its what he does. But he does temper it with some more relaxed playing and I think he plays this Miles tune the way you would expect him too.He has a great respect for the man.Its very easy to say this one would play it differently ,or that one would have done so & so with the tune.We play how we play.True to our nature & ability.

[llafutaal]

HERE you have another niece version of this beautiful piece. John´s solo is beautiful.

[KAROLAmaJABOLA]

It's not the best blue in green what I ever heard. This man really great play on the guitar,but that's not good way to presetns creations of Miles Davis.

[jazztom86]

I just want to clarify: this tune IS NOT written by Miles Davis, even if on Kind Of Blue it's written so. The tune was originally written by Bill Evans. It was just a Miles' typical bad habbit to put his name under songs he didn't write.

[02x9]

I've heard that John McLaughlin has the ability to travel inter-dimensionally throughout CalabiYau space. Therefore when McLaughlin is at the height of his powers, the resulting musical landscape defies the very construct of the space time continuum.

[tavadigelovani]

@02x9 what are you talking about? :s

[blueflame2]

@02x9 Dude Please

[blueflame2]

@02x9 Dude Please and he's got a son named Harry Potter

[69MC97gc]

@02x9 Some people say he plays faster...and now that E is not equal to MC 2 according to 2 scientists in CERN...who knows

[llafutaal]

I´m working on JM´s musical journey since many years ago. Love all the great guitarrist and all periods of John. BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT THIS FORMATION OF JM TRIO HAS GOT THE BIGGEST EFECTO ON MY MUSICAL LIFE! EVERY TIME I HEAR THEM OR SEE THEM I´M WRAPPED AROUND THIS TRIO. UNIQUE!

[laszlosirsom]

I LOVE THE MUSIC KIND REGARD LASZLO

[XanAxDdu]

part 4 and ending (thanks to have read the full answer to this post)

at least, we are lucky to have this video. in it we can see an overgoing miracle. this mclaughlin trio is the best thing we have had since the album in question was out. an album hardly to repeat. a project unique in his totally new and hot aestethic relief. like a method, or something grabbed to eternity and given in music. one of the best of all time for poetry. this is the real thing.

have fun in playing it in loop

[everardrocks]

uhhh?

[XanAxDdu]

comment part 3 (sorry guys i had to write a long message.-)

so, all what you have said here is true. it is true metheny trio was the best and heavier of last years. probably not only as trio and not only last years. lol, so what?

mclaughlin plays bill evans or john coltrane in their owns, like their spirits were in his fingers. that is another thing, and not to compare. both of them lead in music since 40 years, not always we can agree with their choices. it is normal, where is the problem?

[XanAxDdu]

part2

Well, John and Pat are probably the best of best on gtr (especially when not electrical gtr, and hoping you dont prefer segovia or classical approach only), and each on his own style, statement... or simply their kind of blue.

Metheny is nothing, or just remains interesting or over-freeloading when he forgets his bright size life way to play.

McLaughlin is otherways, and in another way, a free spirit. as 1st one in jazz to change things on guitar, between coltrane and hendrix.

end pt2

[ajdicks]

you are somewhat right about pat metheney getting stuck in one style. but watch this mclaughlin video again...what the hell are those fast runs at 1:52? they don't belong in this song at all! he was effective during "in a silent way" but from mahavishnu on his songs always start well then become too fast and loud. at least pat uses restraint on quieter songs.

[larry3393]

how does that run not fit? its helping to build to a more climatic moment in the solo and emphasis

[ajdicks]

this violates every principle miles believed in. i believe the fatal mistake in jazz is too many notes. herbie and zawinul usually respected this. unfortunately mclaughlin and corea could overplay (as could coletrane toward the end) the greatest jazz or rock of any era uses open space in an interesting way

[dorian411]

ajdicks, UNLESS a note is sustained or bowed, ANY "run" of multiple notes (melody) will have space between those notes, and as such some might be shorter others longer. This is a none issue.

[ajdicks]

i'm talking artistically here not technically. have you ever actually listened closely to a miles davis record? sure miles was physically capable stacatto bursts of notes for four minutes at a time but he usually chose not to. i have criticisms of chick corea, keith emerson, rick wakeman, and joey defrancesco. you can wear your audience down if you play too many notes on every song.

[osensei2987]

Not true! Whats important is the use of themes and motifs also known as theme and variation! This goes to the heart of melodic phrasing. In this way one's solo is not merely a string of meandering notes but rather is composed of melodic sentences and paragraphs. It's hard to explain unless you know how to analyze a piece of music, but what it boils down to is that the solo needs to tell a story. Otherwise the listener drifts off mentally and wakes up when its over!

[dorian411]

ajdicks, HUH? You clearly just do NOT get it...

[XanAxDdu]

i have to write a comment in 4 parts, so here comes part 1 haha

ehy guys, let down your guns, don't think to musicians just or only like myths, they are humans. musicians can be of talent, creatives, virtuosi. could anyone of you to say as absolute value i prefer chet baker to miles davis, the album kind of blue really does not inspire me? that would be a fool thing to believe. we have to grew up our sensibility and to open minds and hearts. music is not only mathematics or speed.

end pt 1

[llafutaal]

Hola Buzaglod, I think Pat Metheny is great, that´s evident, but you have to think all of us have our personnal heroe. Your statement of John Mclauglin "this guy isn´t bad..." says more of your musical knowlegment that a thousand of words about how good is PAT METHENY.I´ve enjoyed very much Metheny´s works some time ago, now I prefer Mclaughlin´s work, over all past.

I see Metheny like a beautiful music creator and Mclaughlin like a genuine artist in search of new musical landscapes.

[florafox]

Metheny isn´t great. Most of his repertoire is "kitsch", he is superficial and cannot compete with the level of most guitarists. John is a genius not because of some kind of "virtuoso status" but because of his compositions and his strong influence. He developped new musical styles.This is much more than being a good guitar-player !

[vonlyf]

Damn... and I'm lucky enough to share a studio with Kai. This is so sweet because John slows down enough for the rest of humanity to catch up here... and Kai is SO soulful. Nice!

[Joviron]

oh no He is TRILOK GURTU: (check him playing with JOE ZAWINUL)

[Buzaglod]

Is that jack dejonet?

[risgrigg]

This is simply beautiful. I can't think of anyone who does more interesting harmonies on guitar than John. The degree of interaction between the players is phenominal.

[Buzaglod]

Pat Matheny

[dorian411]

Yes, Pat does create some wonderful but oblique melody lines. Reminiscent of Thelonius but modern. I do feel, for me, that Pat's best work was way in the past.

[Buzaglod]

Are you kidding, have you heard the pat matheny trio! like not on an album, live! THEY ARE THE BEST THREE PERFORMERS IN THE WORLD and they just started performing like a year ago

If your saying Pat Metheny is a has-been ur an idiot

This guy isn't bad but its not interesting to me

[dorian411]

I just saw him. Sorry, but it was not very inspirational. If you wish to characterize my statement that I liked him better in the past (way past) as saying he is a "has-been", you are incorrect. If I am an idiot for not liking him as much as you still do, so be it. A rather foolish statement I think however.

Referring to JM as "this guy" and it is "not interesting":Personally, while I think this is not JM's most compelling, I do find this piece better than ANY of the 15 or so albums of Pat.

[Buzaglod]

You cant compare Jazz musicians in talent because they are so good

but Pat Metheny is probably one of the most insightful and creative musicians ever to walk the earth

Although John Mcaughlin might be talented in this rendition at least it seems to me like how many notes can I spit out at once

[AndyHN34]

This guy ISN'T BAD?????? are you KIDDING??????

'THIS GUY' is the single greatest guitarist who's ever LIVED!!!!!!

[glaucoaster]

Teacher ¡¡¡ me quedo sin palabras , cada vez que escucho a este tipo . alusinante "

[japidon87]

kai eckthardt on bass

check out his solos

[alejandrojazzmetal]

en el bajo esta, kai eckhardt que esta reemplasando a dominic di piazza

[carlitoparadise]

the most virtuoso of guitar jazz

[rugdoctor]

whos on bass?

[jacs91]

Dominique Di Piazza

[jacs91]

No, sorry, it's Kai Eckhardt.

[raulmarcusbruno]

lindo!

[luke125]

I LOVE THIS!