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Bathed in Lightning.

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Kúpala v Lightning.

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Bathed in Lightning. John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond. Book. Softcover. 506 pages. Published by Jawbone Press. HL.123071. ISBN 1908279516. 6x8.5 inches. On February 16 1969, John McLaughlin flew into New York, from London, in a snowstorm. The following day, Miles Davis, his hero, invited him to play on a record. Two years later, on the path of Bengali mystic Sri Chinmoy, John launched The Mahavishnu Orchestra – an evocation in music of spiritual aspiration and extraordinary power, volume and complexity, far beyond anything else in jazz or rock. Curiously, it was also a huge success. John McLaughlin brought rock music to its pinnacle, the end point in an evolution from Mississippi blues through Coltrane, Hendrix and the Beatles. And then, in November 1975, he hung up his electric guitar and walked away from the stadiums of the rock world for an ongoing, restless career in music of other forms. To most of the world, John McLaughlin looked like an overnight success, with a backstory going back only as far as that February in 1969. Yet he had been a professional musician since 1958, experiencing all the great movements in British music-trad jazz, rock'n'roll, R&B, soul, modern jazz, free jazz, psychedelic rock – a guitar for hire at the center of 'Swinging London', a bandmate of future members of Cream, Pentangle and Led Zeppelin, but always just under the radar. Drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews and many months of meticulous research, author and music historian Colin Harper brings that unrepeatable era vividly to life. This landmark new work retrieves for the first time the incredible career of John McLaughlin before he conquered the world – and then chronicles how he did so.

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Kúpala v Lightning. John McLaughlin, 60. a Emerald Beyond. Kniha. Softcover. 506 strán. Vydal Jawbone Press. HL.123071. ISBN 1908279516. 6x8.5 cm. 16. februára 1969 John McLaughlin odletel do New Yorku, z Londýna, v snehovej búrke. Nasledujúci deň, Miles Davis, jeho hrdina, pozval ho hrať sa na rekord. O dva roky neskôr, na ceste bengálske mystické Sri Chinmoya, John začal Mahavishnu Orchestra - vyvoláva dojem v hudbe duchovnej ašpirácie a mimoriadnu silu, objem a zložitosť, ďaleko za čokoľvek iné v jazzu či rocku. Napodiv to bol tiež obrovský úspech. John McLaughlin priniesol rockovú hudbu k jeho vrcholu, koncový bod v evolúciu od Mississippi blues cez Coltrane, Hendrix a Beatles. A potom, v novembri 1975 sa zavesil gitaru a odišiel od štadiónov na svete rocku na prebiehajúce, nepokojné kariére v hudbe iných foriem. Pre väčšinu sveta, John McLaughlin vyzeral ako okamžitý úspech, s backstory vracať iba pokiaľ ide o tej februára 1969. Napriek tomu bol profesionálny hudobník od roku 1958, zažíva všetky veľké pohyby v British music-trad jazz, rock'n'roll, R. Kreslenie na desiatky exkluzívnych rozhovorov a mnoho mesiacov starostlivé výskumu, spisovateľ a hudobný historik Colin Harper prináša tú neopakovateľnú éra naživo k životu. Tento medzník nové dielo získa prvýkrát neuveriteľnú kariéru John McLaughlin, než on si podmanil celý svet - a potom zaznamenáva, ako to urobil tak,.