It’s earth-shaking when I think about it. If I had never met him, where would my life have gone?”: Virtuoso guitarist John ...

John McLaughlin has opened up on his guitar-collecting habits, and remembered the time he gifted Jeff Beck a vintage Fender ...

“I gave a 1967 white [Fender] Strat to Jeff Beck after a tour we did together in 1974, or ’75,” McLaughlin says. “And when we ...

“I’d gotten to know Miles by then, and I’d go by his house a lot in those days. He would call up and say, ‘Come by the house, ...

When John McLaughlin looked through his archives in preparation for an upcoming tour celebrating his pioneering Seventies jazz-rock outfit the Mahavishnu Orchestra, he was shocked by how out-there ...

But a new album, a miracle cure for John McLaughlin’s arthritic right hand, the end of the pandemic and the joy of playing live again have put this seminal east/west fusion ensemble back on the ...

Each week, McLaughlin presided over a panel of Washington nobodies — the Group — that snarled and hissed over the meat (“Issue No. 1!”) that McLaughlin tossed into the cage.

In those late months of 2014, McLaughlin’s profanities regularly echoed around my room. But in those formative experiences, I also realized John’s greatest qualities. RELATED: John McLaughlin, RIP ...

John McLaughlin died Tuesday at age 89. If you were born after 1990 — or maybe even after 1980 — your likely response to this news was a shrug. It shouldn't be. While McLaughlin's influence ...

Built according to McLaughlin’s pictorial principles, they are dispersed throughout the galleries. John McLaughlin, “#6, 1970,” 1970, oil and acrylic on canvas. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) ...