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territory. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he<br />
explored electric guitar jazz-rock fusion with<br />
Tony Williams's Lifetime and Miles Davis' Bitches<br />
Brew, On the Corner, and Live at the Cellar Door<br />
bands. (It was through Mr. McLaughlin's tenure<br />
with Davis that he got to work with Chick Corea.)<br />
Mr. McLaughlin also formed his own seminal<br />
fusion group, Mahavishnu Orchestra, which burst<br />
onto the scene with two artistic and commercial<br />
blockbusters: 1971's The Inner Mounting Flame<br />
and 1972's Birds of Fire.<br />
While a fusion superhero, Mr. McLaughlin<br />
proved to be a master guitarist not content to<br />
dwell in predictable territory for too long a spell.<br />
He delved into acoustic guitar playing, working<br />
with Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu as well as<br />
recording Time Remembered, a gorgeous acoustic<br />
Takacs Quartet<br />
Marc-Andre Hamelin piano<br />
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homage to Bill Evans. Mr. McLaughlin also toured<br />
with Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia,<br />
composed two critically acclaimed concertos<br />
for classical guitar and orchestra, and played<br />
jazz-infused Indian classical music with his band<br />
Shakti. In 2005 McLaughlin recorded Thieves and<br />
Poets, his first new studio album in six years. It<br />
featured his buoyant, classical-tinged three-part<br />
suite for acoustic guitar and orchestra performed<br />
by him and The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie<br />
conducted by Renalto Rivolta. His most recent<br />
album, Floating Point, another electric date<br />
with a band of Indian musicians, was praised by<br />
DownBeat as "a landmark recording, marked<br />
by detail, subtlety, and extraordinary moving<br />
performances."<br />
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