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Mahavishnu Orchestra

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Mahavishnu Orchestra were a multinational jazz-rock fusion band formed in New York City in 1971 by English guitarist John McLaughlin. [1]

86 relations: Adventures in Radioland, Al Di Meola, AllMusic, Apocalypse (Mahavishnu Orchestra album), Between Nothingness & Eternity, Bill Bruford, Bill Evans (saxophonist), Billy Cobham, Birds of Fire, Black Flag (band), Chick Corea, Classical music, Columbia Records, Crawdaddy (magazine), Cynic (band), Danny Gottlieb, David Geffen Hall, Dennis Chambers, Dixie Dregs, Frank Zappa, Funk, Gayle Moran, Geoff Emerick, George Duke, George Martin, Gospel music, Greg Ginn, Hardcore punk, Hymn, Indian classical music, Inner Worlds, Jan Hammer, Jazz fusion, Jean-Luc Ponty, Jeff Beck, Jeff Berlin, Jerry Goodman, Jim Beard, Jimi Hendrix, Joey DeFrancesco, John Lee Hooker, John McLaughlin (musician), Jonas Hellborg, Kai Eckhardt, Like Children, London Symphony Orchestra, Mahavishnu (album), Massive Attack, Miami Vice, Michael Tilson Thomas, ..., Minimoog, Miroslav Vitouš, Mitchel Forman, Multi-neck guitar, My Goal's Beyond, Narada Michael Walden, New York City, Opeth, Paco de Lucía, Pat Metheny, Peter Max, Private Music, Progressive rock, Rhythm and blues, Rick Laird, Shadowfax (band), Shakti (band), Spectrum (Billy Cobham album), Stan Getz, Stu Goldberg, Synclavier, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Flock (band), The Gaslight Cafe, The Inner Mounting Flame, The Lost Trident Sessions, The Mars Volta, Tony Levin, Tony Williams (drummer), Trident Studios, Trilok Gurtu, Unfinished Sympathy, Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity, Visions of the Emerald Beyond, Weather Report, Wired (Jeff Beck album). Expand index (36 more) »

Adventures in Radioland

Adventures in Radioland is a 1987 album by the John McLaughlin-headed group Mahavishnu, released by the Relativity label which represents McLauglin's interest in electronic technology.

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Al Di Meola

Al Laurence Di Meola (born July 22, 1954) is an American jazz, jazz fusion, and world music guitarist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Apocalypse (Mahavishnu Orchestra album)

Apocalypse is the Mahavishnu Orchestra's fourth album, released in 1974.

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Between Nothingness & Eternity

Between Nothingness & Eternity is the first live album by jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, released on November 1973 by Columbia Records.

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Bill Bruford

William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English retired drummer, percussionist, songwriter, producer, and record label owner who first gained prominence as the original drummer of the rock band Yes, from 1968 to 1972 and again from 1989 to 1992.

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Bill Evans (saxophonist)

William D. Evans (born February 8, 1958 in Clarendon Hills, Illinois) is an American jazz saxophonist who was a member of the Miles Davis group in the 1980s and has since led several of his own bands, including Push and Soulgrass.

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Billy Cobham

William Emanuel "Billy" Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian-American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Birds of Fire

Birds of Fire is the second studio album by American jazz fusion band the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Crawdaddy (magazine)

Crawdaddy was an American rock music magazine launched in 1966.

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Cynic (band)

Cynic is an American band.

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Danny Gottlieb

Danny Gottlieb (born April 18, 1953) is an American drummer.

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David Geffen Hall

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Dennis Chambers

Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959), is an American drummer.

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Dixie Dregs

The Dixie Dregs are an American band formed in the 1970s.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gayle Moran

Gayle Moran is a vocalist, keyboard player (piano, organ, and synthesizer), and songwriter born in 1943.

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Geoff Emerick

Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946) is an English recording studio audio engineer.

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George Duke

George Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres.

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 19268 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Greg Ginn

Gregory Regis "Greg" Ginn (born June 8, 1954) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976–86, and again in 2003.

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (often abbreviated to hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Indian classical music

Indian classical music is a genre of South Asian music.

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Inner Worlds

Inner Worlds is an album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Jan Hammer

Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.

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Jeff Berlin

Jeffrey Arthur Berlin (born January 17, 1953) is an American jazz fusion bassist.

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Jerry Goodman

Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands the Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Jim Beard

James Arthur Beard (born August 26, 1960 in Philadelphia) is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer who has worked with Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Mike Stern, Dennis Chambers and Bob Berg.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Joey DeFrancesco

Joey DeFrancesco (born April 10, 1971) is an American jazz organist, trumpeter, and vocalist.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer.

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Jonas Hellborg

Jonas Hellborg (born 7 June 1958) is a Swedish bass guitarist.

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Kai Eckhardt

Kai Eckhardt (15 June 1961) is a German born musician and composer who plays bass, best known for his work with John McLaughlin, Vital Information, Torsten de Winkel, Billy Cobham and Garaj Mahal—a band he co-founded.

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Like Children

Like Children is a collaborative album between two past members of the ground-breaking and highly influential Mahavishnu Orchestra, keyboardist Jan Hammer and violinist Jerry Goodman.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Mahavishnu (album)

Mahavishnu is an album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, released in 1984 by Warner Bros. Records.

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Massive Attack

Massive Attack are a British musical group formed in 1988 in Bristol, consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall and formerly Andy "Mushroom" Vowles ("Mush").

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer.

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Minimoog

The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog.

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Miroslav Vitouš

Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist who is known for his extensive career in the US.

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Mitchel Forman

Mitchel Forman (born January 24, 1956) is a jazz and fusion keyboard player currently residing in Southern California.

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Multi-neck guitar

A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks.

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My Goal's Beyond

My Goal's Beyond is the third solo album (after Extrapolation and Devotion) by John McLaughlin.

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Narada Michael Walden

Narada Michael Walden (born Michael Walden; April 23, 1952) is an American producer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Opeth

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1989.

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Paco de Lucía

Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez (21 December 194725 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía, was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.

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Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

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Peter Max

Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is an American artist known for using bright colors in his work.

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Private Music

Private Music was an American independent record label founded in 1984 by musician Peter Baumann as a "home for instrumental music".

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rick Laird

Richard Quentin Laird (born 5 February 1941) is an Irish bassist who is best known for his place in the American jazz fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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Shadowfax (band)

Shadowfax was a New Age/electronic musical group formed in Chicago in the early 1970s and best known for their albums Shadowfax and Folksongs for a Nuclear Village.

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Shakti (band)

Shakti were a fusion band formed by English guitarist John McLaughlin, Indian violin player L. Shankar, percussionists Zakir Hussain (on tabla), Ramnad Raghavan (on the Mridangam), and T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram (on Ghatam) in 1974.

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Spectrum (Billy Cobham album)

Spectrum is the debut solo album by jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Stu Goldberg

Stuart Wayne "Stu" Goldberg (born July 10, 1954, Malden, Massachusetts) is an American jazz keyboardist.

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Synclavier

The Synclavier was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont, USA.

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The Dillinger Escape Plan

The Dillinger Escape Plan was an American metalcore band formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey, in 1997.

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The Flock (band)

The Flock was an American, Chicago-based progressive rock band, that released two records on Columbia records in 1969 (The Flock) and 1970 (Dinosaur Swamps).

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The Gaslight Cafe

The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

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The Inner Mounting Flame

The Inner Mounting Flame is the debut studio album by multinational jazz-rock fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, released in August 1971 by Columbia Records.

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The Lost Trident Sessions

The Lost Trident Sessions is a studio album by jazz fusion group the Mahavishnu Orchestra, released on 21 September 1999 through Sony Music Entertainment.

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The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta was an American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001.

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Tony Levin

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Tony Williams (drummer)

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer.

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Trident Studios

Trident Studios was a British recording facility, located at 17 St. Anne's Court in London's Soho district between 1968 and 1981.

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Trilok Gurtu

Trilok Gurtu (ترلوک گرٹو, त्रिलोक गुर्टू) (born in Mumbai, India on 30 October 1951) is an Indian percussionist and composer, whose work has blended the music of his homeland with jazz fusion, world music and other genres.

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Unfinished Sympathy

"Unfinished Sympathy" is a song by English trip hop group Massive Attack, released under the temporary group name Massive.

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Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity

Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity is a live album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, first released in 2011 as part of The Complete Columbia Albums Collection boxset, along with the other albums by the first line-up of the band, including The Lost Trident Sessions.

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Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Visions of the Emerald Beyond is an album by the jazz fusion group Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the second released by its second incarnation.

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Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Wired (Jeff Beck album)

Wired is the third solo album by British guitarist Jeff Beck, released on Epic Records in 1976.

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Mahavishnu Project, Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Mahavishnu Orchestra.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavishnu_Orchestra

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