John McLaughlin, the trailblazing guitarist from Mahavishnu Orchestra, just announced that he has a new live album due out September 15th via Abstract Logix Music. The latest album, Live at Ronnie Scott’s, compiles live recordings from John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension during their sold-out, two-night stand at the famed London Jazz club back in March of this year. McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension—composed of Ranjit Barot (drums, konokol), Gary Husband (keyboards, drums), and Etienne M’Bappé (bass)—highlights the group’s simultaneous technical mastery and soulful and fluid playing. Live at Ronnie Scott’s contains a career-spanning track listing, pulling early classics from Mahavishnu Orchestra as well as numbers from the group’s most recent studio album, Black Light. With a fifty-year career under his belt, McLaughlin has more than enough catalog to go around. Longtime fans will be pleased to hear McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension’s takes on “Vital Transformation” (from Mahavishnu’s 1971 Inner Mounting Flame album) and “Miles Beyond” (from 1973’s Birds of Fire), while also getting a taste of more recent compositions like “El Hombre Que Sabia” and the moving “Gaza City.”
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Following the September 15th releasse of Live at Ronnie Scott’s, John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension will hit the road with Jimmy Herring and the Invisible Whip for their joint Meeting of the Spirits Tour. The tour starts in November and spans through to December, with the two acts hitting both American coasts and many towns in between. Each performance will feature individual sets from McLaughlin and Herring’s bands, with a collaborative joint jam session based on classic Mahavishnu Orchestra material. You can check out dates for the Meeting of the Spirits tour below, and pre-order and sample Live at Ronnie Scott’s here.
John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring Announce “The Meeting Of The Spirits” Tour
John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring “Meeting Of The Spirits” Tour
11/1/17 Buffalo, NY, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts
11/2/17 Albany, NY, The Egg
11/3/17 New York, NY, Town Hall
11/4/17 Port Chester, NY, Capitol Theatre
11/5/17 Cranston, RI, Park Theatre/Rhode Island Center for the Performing Arts
11/8/17 Boston, MA, The Wilbur Theatre
11/9/17 Philadelphia, PA, Keswick Theatre
11/10/17 Newark, NJ, Prudential Hall, New Jersey Performance Art Centre
11/11/17 Washington DC, Lincoln Theatre
11/12/17 Durham, NC, Duke Performances at DPAC
11/15/17 Ann Arbor, MI
11/17/17 Chicago, IL, Vic Theatre
11/19/17 Indianapolis, IN, Clowes Memorial-Hall-Butler University
11/21/17 Nashville, TN, Schermerhorn Symphony Center-Laura Turner Concert Hall
11/22/17 Atlanta, GA, Atlanta Symphony Hall
11/24/17 Jacksonville, FL, Florida Theatre
11/25/17 Clearwater, FL, Ruth Eckerd Hall
11/27/17 New Orleans, LA, The Joy Theater
11/30/17 Austin, TX, Paramount Theatre
12/5/17 Seattle, WA, Moore Theatre
12/6/17 Portland, OR, Revolution Hall
12/8/17 San Francisco, CA, The Warfield
12/9/17 Los Angeles, CA, Royce Hall-UCLA