John McLaughlin & Remember Shakti – Doncaster To Delhi
Thursday, October 17, 2013
From a chill-inducing encounter with Indian music on the radio as a teenager in Yorkshire, to being hailed as a virtuoso musical pioneer in India itself, guitarist John McLaughlin’s connection to the music of the subcontinent runs deep.
With his legendary Indo-jazz group Shakti, now known as Remember Shakti, celebrating their 40th anniversary with an appearance at this year’s London Jazz Festival, Stuart Nicholson speaks to McLaughlin about first discovering Indian music and culture in the mind-expanding 1960s, and why he’s firedup about the next chapter of Remember Shakti’s culture-crossing history
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