John's an amazing talent but as a 'composition' who are we kidding. The 'piece' is garbage. Also, John's not playing his best to say the fricking least, LOL.
First time i ever heard of john i was in art class in like i dunno 70 and the art teacher put on jack johnson right off song and man it blew everyone away. no body had EVER heard anything like that :)
Jack Bruce Things We Like (check out Sam's Sack and HHCCK Blues for a start) and Wayne Shorter Super Nova and I am sure since you mentioned him, Tony Williams Lifetime's first recordings. There are a couple of tunes from Miroslav Vitous Purple that are in this style too and some stuff with a guy named Danny Thompson (Danny Thompson Trio) predates this but almost has the sound, though more trad, but still cool....
When now I use the phrase 'ahead of its time', i will think of this recording. i'm used to JM surpising me, if that can be said. but this is ensemble sound people are working on today, without as much assurance, and being played in Hendrix's NYC - JM seems undaunted; and we know from jazzfusion.tv how he'd fused Coltrane's sheets of sound onto Hendrix sonics, karnakal time-phonetics, modes making the most thoroughly psychedelic music ever - in live shows 1975 and 1978. All starts w Kerouac.
This is McLaughlin with Chick Corea on piano, Dave Holand on bass, and Jack deJohnette on drums (i.e. the rhythm section in Miles Davis' 'Lost Quintet'). Probably recorded soon after McLaughlin arrived in America in 1969. The piece is called 'Les Catacombes'.
@soctrang first person I've found who knows this album. Mountains in the Clouds, also sold with a different title -can't remember right now- but without a doubt the version of Freedom Jazz Dance on that album is all time favorite.
john is an extremley versatile, and experimental player...not given his due. people talk of vai, satch ect...which are good ones, but john laid out the path for intstrumental guitar. i think he would have jammed with hendrix more so, had jimi lived. thanks...good post.
why john didn't play more with chic is strange...return to forever would have been better with john, but al mieola was alright. heard that the mahvishnus and return to forever double billed in those days. i was too young :(
Yeah, I think of that era all the time. I don't think it would've been a stretch at all to see Miles/Hendrix/McLaughlin/etc., all those cats playing together in some form and at some point during that time. It's too bad Hendrix didn't survive 1970. So much incredible music was being created when he died. Band of Gypsies merely scratched the surface of the direction he could've gone...
@PhunkyPhil72 ...I saw the original Mahavishnu Orchestra,Return to Forever & Klaus Doldinger's Passport in Chicago in '72....By nights end they were all walking on & off doing a improvised version of Bitches Brew which closed the show and lasted nearly 20 minutes...such a memory!
this sounds a lot like the Miroslav Vitous LP with Herbie Hancock, Mclaughlin, DeJohnette,...Mountains in the Clouds, also released as Infinite Search.
there was also another group with Corea and Holland playing similar material.
really one of the great hidden eras in fusion. this collection of post bop, post Miles group, playing their own stuff, just before branching out and kicking the fusion genre wide open. Mclaughlin's playing has never sound so integrated into a group- really special
@1Delta Yes, this is a great hidden era in fusion, as you point out.
As much as I"m in love with the psychedelic rock of this era, I've gotten to stop celebrating all that great stuff and wonder that such amazing far- out, "head" music was being made under the radar by guys such as McLaughin, Hancock et al. And at a time when jazz was unknown by so many rock fans, here were a bunch of guys carrying on the bop, post-bop tradition and taking it in this weird, enchanting direction.
@written12 Unless you're talking about the 10 minutes betweeen Woodstock and Mahavishnu and Return to Forever's HUGE, HUGE breakthroughs there was nothing whatsoever hidden about this era in fusion. It was the time of the genre's coming out party for the rock generation who didn't hear it coming down the tracks with Bitches Brew and didn't recognize Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention bands as the "fusion" of multiple musical traditions. I was 11 years old in '72 and was excited as hell already!
Lent Extrapolation! to a friend decades ago never got it back. remember a drum solo that still rings in my head. that and the album spaces by larry coreyell.
pretty sure thats chick corea on piano and jack dejohnette on drums, maybe david holland or cecil mcbee on bass. very nice free flowing,organic session.
Man, THANK YOU for posting this.
threeby8887 3 days ago
John's an amazing talent but as a 'composition' who are we kidding. The 'piece' is garbage. Also, John's not playing his best to say the fricking least, LOL.
caesarcerf 1 month ago
Very mystical stuff.
talkinglens1 1 month ago
Just great music. Excellent interplay too.
EZIOTHEMASTER 2 months ago
Nice Stuff! Sounds like Return To Forever around 5:10.
waynedanberry 3 months ago
I like rhe music within the noise A-non-da-naga- 9-9-9.
anandanaga999 4 months ago
Reminding of "Somewhere In Heaven".
69MC97gc 5 months ago
Could be wrong, but I'm sure this is off 'Song of the Wind' on CTI
xHeadcleanerx 5 months ago
Danny Thompson I think played Bass with English Folk band Pentangle.
MabSHELLY 5 months ago
@MabSHELLY Yes he did
Gooseberry51 4 months ago
First time i ever heard of john i was in art class in like i dunno 70 and the art teacher put on jack johnson right off song and man it blew everyone away. no body had EVER heard anything like that :)
jazzynet1 6 months ago
Jack Bruce Things We Like (check out Sam's Sack and HHCCK Blues for a start) and Wayne Shorter Super Nova and I am sure since you mentioned him, Tony Williams Lifetime's first recordings. There are a couple of tunes from Miroslav Vitous Purple that are in this style too and some stuff with a guy named Danny Thompson (Danny Thompson Trio) predates this but almost has the sound, though more trad, but still cool....
bzbzob 8 months ago
When now I use the phrase 'ahead of its time', i will think of this recording. i'm used to JM surpising me, if that can be said. but this is ensemble sound people are working on today, without as much assurance, and being played in Hendrix's NYC - JM seems undaunted; and we know from jazzfusion.tv how he'd fused Coltrane's sheets of sound onto Hendrix sonics, karnakal time-phonetics, modes making the most thoroughly psychedelic music ever - in live shows 1975 and 1978. All starts w Kerouac.
newsmanbluesman 11 months ago
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dorian411 1 year ago
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dorian411 1 year ago
the hidden era of jazz fusion......i like that statement
SorcererOnDope 1 year ago
This is McLaughlin with Chick Corea on piano, Dave Holand on bass, and Jack deJohnette on drums (i.e. the rhythm section in Miles Davis' 'Lost Quintet'). Probably recorded soon after McLaughlin arrived in America in 1969. The piece is called 'Les Catacombes'.
postmeback 1 year ago 4
I'll agree, sounds like DeJohnette, Vitous, Corea and McLaughlin. Mountain in the clouds - one of the greatest electric jazz albums; at least to me.
soctrang 1 year ago
@soctrang first person I've found who knows this album. Mountains in the Clouds, also sold with a different title -can't remember right now- but without a doubt the version of Freedom Jazz Dance on that album is all time favorite.
incredible group, a true classic.thanx
1Delta 10 months ago
john is an extremley versatile, and experimental player...not given his due. people talk of vai, satch ect...which are good ones, but john laid out the path for intstrumental guitar. i think he would have jammed with hendrix more so, had jimi lived. thanks...good post.
why john didn't play more with chic is strange...return to forever would have been better with john, but al mieola was alright. heard that the mahvishnus and return to forever double billed in those days. i was too young :(
PhunkyPhil72 1 year ago
@PhunkyPhil72
Yeah, I think of that era all the time. I don't think it would've been a stretch at all to see Miles/Hendrix/McLaughlin/etc., all those cats playing together in some form and at some point during that time. It's too bad Hendrix didn't survive 1970. So much incredible music was being created when he died. Band of Gypsies merely scratched the surface of the direction he could've gone...
Fakename70 1 year ago
@PhunkyPhil72 ...I saw the original Mahavishnu Orchestra,Return to Forever & Klaus Doldinger's Passport in Chicago in '72....By nights end they were all walking on & off doing a improvised version of Bitches Brew which closed the show and lasted nearly 20 minutes...such a memory!
framzoid 1 year ago
@framzoid :-o
shinkongo 1 year ago
Is this off Les Catacombes. I think it is.
Corea
Mclaughlin
Holland
Dejohnette
Also has that muddy and sickly Geordies Boots. Very groovy.
OneBigRetard 1 year ago 3
this sounds a lot like the Miroslav Vitous LP with Herbie Hancock, Mclaughlin, DeJohnette,...Mountains in the Clouds, also released as Infinite Search.
there was also another group with Corea and Holland playing similar material.
really one of the great hidden eras in fusion. this collection of post bop, post Miles group, playing their own stuff, just before branching out and kicking the fusion genre wide open. Mclaughlin's playing has never sound so integrated into a group- really special
1Delta 2 years ago
@1Delta Yes, this is a great hidden era in fusion, as you point out.
As much as I"m in love with the psychedelic rock of this era, I've gotten to stop celebrating all that great stuff and wonder that such amazing far- out, "head" music was being made under the radar by guys such as McLaughin, Hancock et al. And at a time when jazz was unknown by so many rock fans, here were a bunch of guys carrying on the bop, post-bop tradition and taking it in this weird, enchanting direction.
written12 1 year ago
@written12 Unless you're talking about the 10 minutes betweeen Woodstock and Mahavishnu and Return to Forever's HUGE, HUGE breakthroughs there was nothing whatsoever hidden about this era in fusion. It was the time of the genre's coming out party for the rock generation who didn't hear it coming down the tracks with Bitches Brew and didn't recognize Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention bands as the "fusion" of multiple musical traditions. I was 11 years old in '72 and was excited as hell already!
dantean 10 months ago
Lent Extrapolation! to a friend decades ago never got it back. remember a drum solo that still rings in my head. that and the album spaces by larry coreyell.
theres duets with larry and John.
BlueRoseRocketBand2 2 years ago
pretty sure thats chick corea on piano and jack dejohnette on drums, maybe david holland or cecil mcbee on bass. very nice free flowing,organic session.
blackrocknutt 2 years ago
This is purely amazing. That was right before Extrapolation!
boumbi 2 years ago