YEREVAN TO HOST ENGLISH JAZZ FUSION GUITARIST JOHN MCLAUGHLIN CONCERT IN APRIL, 2010

Panorama.am
13:17 14/12/2009

English jazz fusion guitarist and composer John McLaughlin and The
4th Dimension band are going to perform in Yerevan April 28, 2010. The
event is due in the frames of "The International Music Festival" and
will be organized by Vibrographus, the latter’s press office reported.

John McLaughlin is ranked among the best known guitarists. He played
with Tony Williams’s group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his
landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew.

His 1970s electric band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a
technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused eclectic
jazz and rock with eastern and Indian influences. His guitar playing
includes a range of styles and genres, including jazz, Indian classical
music, fusion, and Western Classical music, and has influenced many
other guitarists. The Indian Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has called
John McLaughlin "one of the greatest and most important musicians
of our times". In 2003, McLaughlin was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone
magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

McLaughlin engaged in a late summer/fall 2008 tour with Chick Corea,
Vinnie Colaiuta, Kenny Garrett and Christian McBride under the name
"Five Peace Band", from which came an eponymous double-CD live album
in early 2009.

The International Music Festival will be held in 2010 all year round.