John Mclaughlin Biography
John McLaughlin an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer known as a pioneer of jazz fusion, John’s music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Indian classical music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues. After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, John made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969.
John Mclaughlin Age
John was born on January 4, 1942, in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
John Mclaughlin Guitar
Mclaughlin started playing guitar when he was 11, he was exploring styles from Flamenco to the Jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. He moved from Yorkshire to London in the early 1960s, playing with Alexis Korner and the Marzipan Twisters before moving to Georgia Fame and the Blue Flames, the Graham Bond Organisation in 1963, and Brian Auger.
In the 1960s John had to support himself with session work which he often found unsatisfying but that enhanced his playing and sight-reading. He even gave guitar lessons to Jimmy Page. Jack Bruce formed the Graham Bond Quartet with Bond, Ginger Baker, and John Mclaughlin in 1963.
John then moved to the U.S., where he played with Tony Williams’s group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, as well as On the Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic as well as complex style of music that fused electric jazz as well as a rock with Indian influences.
John’s solo on “Miles Beyond” from his album Live at Ronnie Scott’s won the 2018 Grammy Award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo. John has been awarded multiple “Guitarist of the Year” and “Best Jazz Guitarist” awards from magazines such as DownBeat and Guitar Player based on reader polls.
In 2003, John was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. In 2009, DownBeat included John in its unranked list of “75 Great Guitarists”, in the “Modern Jazz Maestros” category.
In the year 2012, Guitar World magazine ranked him 63rd on its top 100 list. In the year 2010, Jeff Beck called McLaughlin “the best guitarist alive,” and Pat Metheny has also described him as the world’s greatest guitarist. In 2017, John was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music.
John Mclaughlin Height
John stands tall at a height of 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and he has a weight of 72 kgs (158.4 lbs).
John Mclaughlin Family
John was born and raised in a family of musicians “his mother being a concert violinist” in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. John studied violin as well as piano as a child and took up the guitar at the age of 11, exploring styles from flamenco to the jazz of Django Reinhardt along with Stéphane Grappelli.
He moved to London from Yorkshire in the early 1960s, playing with Alexis Korner and the Marzipan Twisters before moving on to Georgie Fame as well as the Blue Flames, the Graham Bond Organisation (in 1963), and Brian Auger.
John Mclaughlin Wife
John is currently married to his fourth wife Ina Behrend. The couple had a son in 1998. From the late 1980s, he has lived in Monaco. He dated French pianist Katia Labèque, who was also a member of his band in the early 1980s. He was married to Eve Kolosky when he was a disciple of Sri Chinmoy. Sue was his first wife and with whom he had a son Julian in 1966.
John Mclaughlin Net Worth
John has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
John Mclaughlin Albums
- live in San Francisco – 2018
- Live @RonnieScotts – 2017
- Blacklight – 2015
- The Boston Record – 2014
- Nowhere this – 2012
- To The One – 2010
- Love@Belgrade- 2009
- Five Peace Band – 2009
- Meeting of the Minds – 2008
- The Way of Beauty – 2008
- Floating Point – 2008
- Five Peace Band – 2009
- Meeting of the minds – 2008
- The Way Of Beauty – 2008
- Floating Point – 2008
- The Gateway to Rhythm
- Industrial Zen – 2006
- This is The Way I Do It – 2004
- Thieves and Poets – 2003
- Collection – 2002
- Saturday Night IN Bombay – 2001
- The Heart of Thing LIve in Paris – 2000
- The Believer – 2000
- Remember Shakti – 1999
- The Heart Of Things – 1997
- The Guitar Trio – 1996
- The Promise – 1996
- After The Rain – 1995
- Tokyo live – 1094
- Time Remembered – 1993
- Que Alegria – 1992
- Live At The Royal Festival Hall – 1990
- The Mediterranean – 1990
- Adventures IN RadioLand – 1986
- Mahavishnu – 1984
- Passion, Grace $ Fire 1983
- Music Spoken Here – 1982
- Friday Night in San Francisco – 1981
- Belo Horizonte – 1981
- Electric Dreams – 1979
- Electric Guitarist – 1978
- Natural Elements – 1977
- A Handful of Beauty – 1977
- Inner Worlds – 1976
- Shakti – 1976
- Visions of The Emerald Beyond – 1975
- Apocalypse – 1974
- Birds of Fire – 1973
- The Lost Trident Sessions – 1973
- Between Nothingness $ Eternity – 1973
- Love Devotion Surrender – 1973
- The Inner Mounting Flame – 1971
- My Goals Beyond – 1971
- Devotion – 1970
- Extrapolation – 1969
- John Mclaughlin Songs
- Meeting of the Spirits
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- You Know You Know
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- Miles Beyond
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- The Translators
- John McLaughlin · 1982
- John McLaughlin · 2020
- My Favorite Things
- John McLaughlin · 1994
- The Dance of Maya
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- Peace One
- John McLaughlin · 1971
- Mediterranean Sundance / Rio Ancho
- Al Di Meola · 1977
- Vital Transformation
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- Follow Your Heart
- John McLaughlin · 1971
- New York On My Mind
- John McLaughlin · 1978
- Short Tales of the Black Forest
- Al Di Meola · 1981
- Manhã De Carnaval
- Al Di Meola · 1996
- Stella By Starlight
- John McLaughlin · 2003
- Emergency
- John McLaughlin · 2017
- John McLaughlin · 2003
- The Noonward Race
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- Peace Two
- John McLaughlin · 1971
- Beyond the Mirage
- Al Di Meola · 1998
- Do You Hear The Voices You Left Behind?
- McLaughlin · 1978
- The Dark Prince
- McLaughlin · 1979
- Fantasia Suite
- Al Di Meola · 1981
- Binky’s Beam
- McLaughlin · 1969
A Love Supreme
- Carlos Santana · 1990
- La Estiba
- Al Di Meola · 1996
- Desire And The Comforter
- McLaughlin · 1979
- Take The Coltrane
- Elvin Jones
Lotus Feet
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1976
- The Life Divine
- Carlos Santana · 1973
- Honky-Tonk Haven
- McLaughlin · 1982
- Phenomenon: Compulsion
- McLaughlin · 1978
David
- Al Di Meola · 1983
- Arjen’s Bag
- McLaughlin · 1969
- Very Early
- McLaughlin · 1981
- Florianapolis
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1987
Love And Understanding
- McLaughlin · 1979
- Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs
- McLaughlin · 1979
- A Lotus on Irish Streams
- Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1971
- Jazz Jungle
- McLaughlin · 1995
- The Unknown Dissident
- McLaughlin · 1979
- Vashkar
- Carlos Santana · 2015
- Sichia
- Al Di Meola · 1983
- El hombre que sabia
- McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension · 2015
Binky’s Dream
- McLaughlin · 1969
- This Is For Us To Share
- McLaughlin · 1969
- Really You Know
- McLaughlin · 1969
- Pete The Poet
- McLaughlin · 1969
Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1973
Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord
Carlos Santana · 1973
Tones For Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones