Word: mahavishnu
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Mahavishnu Orchestra, with Loggins and Messima. This is the weirdest double bill since Soft Machine and Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys backed Jimi Hendrix in '69. The Orchestra plays swirling, spiritual jazz-rock, from John McLaughlin's mystical base. Loggins-Messina are Buffalo Springfield drawn through Poco. This lot played at the Common this summer. And cut everybody except Smokey. October 27th at the AQUARIUS. 7 and 10 p.m. Tickets...
AQUARIUS. Oct. 27: Mahavishnu Orchestra, with Leggins and Messima. 7 p.m. and 10 pm., $3.50-5.50. Oct. 31: Quicksilver, Boz Scaggs and Estus. 7:30 and 11 p.m., $4-6. Nov. 1: Roy Buchanan...
...were more contemporary accents drowned out. The 30-year-old Guitarist John McLaughlin led his Mahavishnu Orchestra through a shattering set of jazz-rock at Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard turned in a fiery performance as a stand-in for Miles Davis. And the "Connoisseur Concerts" that Wein booked into Carnegie Hall presented such acquired tastes as the abstract expressionism of Pianist Cecil Taylor. In all, there was enough youth and promise on stage -and in the audiences-to make the festival a meeting ground not only of the past and present, but of the past and future as well...
After a lengthy delay, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, featuring John McLaughlin, appeared. McLaughlin is one of a handful of followers of an Indian spiritual leader named Sri Chimoy. He believes in the intense spirituality of is music; he believes in fact that he is merely a medium, that Sri Chimoy actually plays all the music. Regardless of who's playing the music, the effect of the Orchestra is an intensely uplifting emotional experience...
...difficult to write of the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It is eminently music that must be experienced, to be appreciated. An awful lot of bands purport to be completely different, or more powerful onstage, but I suspect only Mahavishnu really is. It was supposed to rain that Wednesday evening. It didn't. I'm half convinced that John McLaughlin was responsible...