Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Electric guitar titan John McLaughlin already made waves earlier this year, when he announced This Moment, the first new album from his fusion ensemble, Shakti, since 1977. Now, McLaughlin has teamed ...

John McLaughlin has made brilliant and groundbreaking music over many decades, with The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis and many more – but arguably it’s his fusion group Shakti that has meant the ...

Jazz fusion legend John McLaughlin might have made his name on a string of Gibson guitars and the odd Strat, but he’s pivoted to PRS builds in recent years. Now, he’s just let it slip about the ...

All About Jazz is celebrating John McLaughlin's birthday today! John McLaughlin, also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitarist from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England. He came to prominence ...

Virtuoso guitarist John McLaughlin has reigned at the top of the charts for the past 40 years and continues to astound his peers. British guitarist Jeff Beck calls him “the best guitarist alive” and ...

Over the past decade guitarist John McLaughlin, other than working on his Industrial Zen (Verve, 2006) project, has devoted much of his time to a new version of his ground-breaking mid-'70s Indo-Jazz ...

MONTEREY, California (Reuters) - Nearly 40 years after helping pioneer jazz fusion with Miles Davis, guitar maestro John McLaughlin still faces harsh critics who dismiss such technically demanding, ...

Running an elegant hand through his mane of silver hair, the English guitarist, composer and band leader takes in the well-heeled clientele of this up-market hotel bar in Nice, southern France, where ...

Death, disability and pestilence have kept the band Shakti from performing together for almost 10 years. But a new album, a miracle cure for John McLaughlin’s arthritic right hand, the end of the ...