John McLaughlin – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonJohn McLaughlin, the Yorkshire-born musician who found himself on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew in 1969 and became a guitar legend, has returned to Ronnie Scott's for the first time in 44 years. Musing on the late proprietor's likely opinion of his heavy-hitting 4th Dimension quartet, McLaughlin wryly surmised that Scott might drawl, "That's not jazz." But an R&B instinct runs deep with McLaughlin (he played with Cream's Jack Bruce and jammed with Hendrix in the 60s) and his p...

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