The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971/2012 remaster/FLAC)

 

The Inner Mounting Flame is the debut studio album by American jazz-rock fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra, recorded in August 1971 and released in November of the same year by Columbia Records. After their formation, the group performed several debut gigs before they entered the studio to record their first album featuring all original material written by guitarist John McLaughlin.

•     John McLaughlin – guitar
•     Rick Laird – bass
•     Billy Cobham – drums, percussion
•     Jan Hammer – keyboards, organ
•     Jerry Goodman – violin

01. Meeting Of The Spirits (6:52)

02. Dawn (5:10)

03. The Noonward Race (6:28)

04. A Lotus On Irish Streams (5:40)

05. Vital Transformation (6:16)

06. The Dance Of Maya (7:17)

07. You Know, You Know (5:07)

08. Awakening (3:30)

09. The Noonward Race (Live) (15:23)

Al Di Meola with John McLaughlin & Paco de Lucia - discography 1981-1996 (FLAC)

 

1981 - Friday Night in San Francisco

1983 - Passion Grace and Fire

1996 - The Guitar Trio

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (5 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 The Complete Columbia Albums Collection is a box set by Mahavishnu Orchestra. It came out in 2012 and it contains remastered versions of all the albums by the first incarnation of the band, including The Lost Trident Sessions which was to be the band's third studio album, recorded in 1973 but only released in 1999. Additionally, the first album The Inner Mounting Flame contains a bonus track, the live album Between Nothingness & Eternity was remixed and expanded, and the box includes a previously unreleased live CD called Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity.

CD1 - The Inner Mounting Flame 

CD2 - Birds Of Fire 

CD3 - The Lost Trident Sessions 

CD4 - Between Nothingness & Eternity 

CD5 - Unreleased Tracks From Between Nothingness & Eternity 

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 [6 CD, 2005/FLAC]

 

The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 is a 2005 reissue of several 1970 concerts given by Miles Davis, at the Washington, DC nightclub, The Cellar Door.

Significant portions of Davis' Live-Evil were edited and compiled from the music that appears on discs 5 and 6.

It is one of the few recordings that has Keith Jarrett playing electric piano. Live-Evil and this collection are the only live recordings of John McLaughlin live performances with Miles Davis.

• Miles Davis: electric trumpet with Wah Wah
• Gary Bartz: soprano and alto sax:
• John McLaughlin: electric guitar (CDs 5-6 only)
• Keith Jarrett: Fender Rhodes electric piano, Fender electric organ
• Michael Henderson: electric bass
• Jack DeJohnette: drums
• Airto Moreira: percussion, Cuica (CDs 2-3-4-5-6)
  

 

Miles Davis - The Lost Concert (2021/FLAC)

 

The stunning double album ‘The Lost Concert’ from Miles Davis is released for the first time on 28 September 2021, the thirtieth anniversary of his death, on 2CD and digital through Sleepy Night Records. This completes the trilogy from company that brought you the Number One jazz album ‘The Lost Quintet’ followed by ‘The Lost Septet’. This stunning show was captured at La Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, France on 10 July 1991.

Miles Davis was renowned for never revisiting the past, even though many fans, critics and concert promoters always hoped that he would. Then, in July 1991, Miles Davis did return to the past, not once, but twice. The first was two days earlier, when he had played the classic arrangements of Gil Evans from the 1950s and 1960 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Then, Miles arrived at Paris to play this special gig. It was simply advertised as “Miles and Friends” and neither the audience, nor Miles’ band, had any idea on what they were about to witness.

Playing with Miles was an amazing roll-call of past musical associates from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s: Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Al Foster, Steve Grossman, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Darryl Jones, John McLaughlin, Jackie McLean, John Scofield and Joe Zawinul. Miles’ band members were Kenny Garrett, Foley, Deron Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ricky Wellman.

Miles Davis - Live-Evil [2 CD, 1971/FLAC]

Live-Evil is one of Miles Davis' most confusing and illuminating documents. As a double album, it features very different settings of his band -- and indeed two very different bands. The double-LP CD package is an amalgam of a December 19, 1970, gig at the Cellar Door, which featured a band comprised of Miles, bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Jack DeJohnette, guitarist John McLaughlin, saxophonist Gary Bartz, Keith Jarrett on organ, and percussionist Airto. These tunes show a septet that grooved hard and fast, touching on the great funkiness that would come on later.

Miles Davis - Complete On The Corner Sessions [6 CD, 2007/FLAC]

 

This 6CD box set includes more than 6 hours of music. Twelve of these are previously unissued tracks. Another five tracks are previously unissued in full. They cover sixteen sessions from On the Corner, Big Fun, and Get Up With It until Davis's mid-seventies retirement. Miles is joined in these recordings by Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart, and many others.

John McLaughlin - Montreux Concerts [17 CD, 2003/FLAC]

 

This monumental compilation features all the artist's concerts at the Montreaux Jazz Festival spanning the years 1974 through 1999.


Featuring

Shakti in July 1976 & 1977 (3 discs),

John McLaughlin & The One Truth Band in July 1978,

John McLaughlin & Chick Corea in July 1981,

Mahavishnu Orchestra in July 1984 (2 discs),

John McLaughlin & Paco DeLucia in July 1987 (2 discs),

John McLaughlin & The Free Spirits in July 1993 & 1995 (3 discs),

John McLaughlin & The Heart Of Things in July 1998

John McLaughlin & Remember Shakti in July 1999.

The last disc is a bonus CD containing two tracks one featuring McLaughlin performing with Santana in July 1993 'Canto de Xango' & another with McLaughlin & Paco DeLucia in July 1996 'Frevo'.

Trilok Gurtu - Twenty Years Of Talking Tabla [2 CD, 2007] [FLAC]

 

The 20 years referred to in the title of this 2CD collection is only the length of the Bombay-born percussionist's solo career. Gurtu was already beginning to play Indian classical tabla at the age of six, eventually opening his jazz-fusion phase by gigging with Oregon and Don Cherry. This set's subtitle blurb reads 'the serial collaborator in full flight with...', then proceeds to list a highly impressive gathering of guest artists, hailing from both jazz and global music zones.

There's always the danger, particularly with drumming leaders, to be subsumed and sidelined by your singers, guitarists and horn players, but Trilok always invites his collaborators into his own universe, retaining a strong sense of Indian classical tradition. Often this will be pleasingly filtered via a fusion with jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, African, Latin, Far Eastern or Western classical musics, but Gurtu usually tends to emerge unscathed and undiluted.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition [3 CD, 2010]

The 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking fusion album Bitches Brew offers an opportunity to expand upon the context of its original unveiling. The impact of this recognition can't even be mitigated by a collision of commerce and creativity that echoes some of the furor over the original 1970 release. The unreleased studio recordings (not included on the previously issued Complete Bitches Brew from 1998) are alternates take, one of which ("John McLaughlin") isn't appreciably different from the official take, while the other ("Spanish Key") moves a little too fast for its own good. Similarly, the two stereo and two mono 45 single edits, for all their brevity, do manage to capture as much of the album's haunting atmosphere as their truncated likes can hold. The August 1970 concert live recording of Davis and his band at Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachussetts, displays the bravado the trumpeter would always bring to his rock star co-billings, on this date, Santana at the height of the original lineup's powers.

Mahavishnu Orchestra discography

 Mahavishnu Orchestra were a jazz fusion band formed in New York City in 1971, led by English guitarist John McLaughlin. The group underwent several line-up changes throughout its history across two stints from 1971 to 1976 and 1984 to 1987. With its first line-up consisting of musicians Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman and Rick Laird, the band received its initial acclaims for its complex, intense music consisting of a blend of Indian classical music, jazz and psychedelic rock, and their dynamic live performances between 1971 and 1973.