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  John McLaughlin (host) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John McLaughlin, Ph.D., (born 29 March 1927 -) is the creator, executive producer, and host of The McLaughlin Group, a long-running weekly public affairs television program in the United States, where a group of five commentators discuss current political issues.
McLaughlin is fond of making witty predictions based on current events, and of asking questions in absurd ways.
McLaughlin himself appeared as The Grim Reaper in a SNL sketch that parodied his show.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_McLaughlin_(host)   (235 words)

  
 John McLaughlin (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John McLaughlin (born January 4, 1942), also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitar player from Yorkshire in England.
The album showed that McLaughlin's trademark power, speed and accuracy (and ability to play in odd metres like 13/8) were his almost from the beginning.
Along with Carlos Santana, McLaughlin was a follower of the guru Sri Chinmoy, and in 1973 they collaborated on an album of devotional songs, Love, Devotion, Surrender, which included recordings of Coltrane compositions including A Love Supreme.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_McLaughlin_(musician)   (534 words)

  
 John McLaughlin - Verve Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McLaughlin's classic recordings of the 1970s have long been regarded as essential listening for anyone with even a casual interest in fusion, and if the British improviser had decided to retire in 1980, he still would have gone down in history as one of jazz-rock's most influential axemen.
McLaughlin was a child when he first fell in love with jazz and the blues, and he was just 11 years old when he began studying and playing the guitar.
McLaughlin was no less eclectic in the 1990s, when his Verve projects ranged from 1993's acoustic Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans (a tribute to the late pianist) to sessions featuring organist Joey DeFrancesco (1993's Tokyo Live and 1994's John Coltrane-minded After the Rain) to an acoustic McLaughlin/DiMeola/de Lucia reunion in 1996.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /verve/artist.asp?aid=2877   (693 words)

  
 The Elements Of Shakti - Biography of John McLaughlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John was not influenced by the sixties and decided to go off to India for a fleeting session with a fashionable Maharishi or to study a few tips from a sitarist.
John McLaughlin was born on January 4, 1942 in Yorkshire, England.
McLaughlin claims that the gramophone record was his greatest teacher and he learnt most of his early guitar playing by listening to the records of the great blues artists of America like Big Bill and Muddy Waters.
www.remembershakti.com /bio_johnmclaughlin.html   (2605 words)

  
 Heroes - John McLaughlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McLaughlin also pulls out his acoustic guitar for the first time on a widely popular album.
Although McLaughlin had experimented with acoustic guitar before and releases acoustic albums, this is the one that marked McLaughlin's transition to acoustic guitar pretty much full-time.
Mclaughlin and his band of Indian musicians settle in in front of a large crowd at a California university, they thank the crowd for their warm welcome, and then they tear into three songs as if their lives depended on it.
www.betterguitar.com /Players/Heroes/jMcLaughlin/jMcLaughlin.html   (775 words)

  
 John McLaughlin The Folk Life Conversation with Martin Carthy
John: My own feeling, from all I’ve witnessed of it on a personal level, is that there are people in the big time, any big time, who would cut your throat for the profit margin, and nothing personal about it.
John: I guess I think of you as primarily a singer of tales, but that may be my own bias, in terms of the oral transmission theory of Albert Lord.
John: George Gritzbach said at one point in Greg Giamo’s interview with him, which we printed some months ago in The Folk Life, there’s something legitimate in doing the old blues songs, just as they were done originally, as a matter of pure history.
johnmclaughlin.hypermart.net /martincarthy.html   (6658 words)

  
 Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
It was John's great good fortune to find himself at the home of his idol almost as soon as he touched down in America and through his work on Mile's albums, "In a Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew" finally broke out into the world at large after his localised fame in the UK.
John was now talking of himself as a jazz guitarist and composer, moving futher away from the rock propulsion of the 70's fusion sound he helped to forge.
Whether or not John continues on this musical merry-go-round remains to be seen, but for now he is extremely happy to being playing with his brother musician Zakir again and one senses that he has truly found the perfect marriage of music and spirit for which he has constantly striven.
www.foxyproductions.co.uk /tribute   (1335 words)

  
 The McLaughlin Group
John McLaughlin is the creator, executive producer and host of two of America's most talked about weekly public affairs programs: The McLaughlin Group, which premiered in 1982, and John McLaughlin's One On One, first telecast in 1984.
McLaughlin's incisive journalistic interviewing and moderating style, coupled with his wry sense of humor, have earned him numerous awards for The McLaughlin Group, and a reputation as an oft-quoted newsmaker for his acclaimed John McLaughlin's One On One.
Before his broadcasting career, Dr. McLaughlin served as a speechwriter and special assistant to Presidents Nixon and Ford, and was associate editor of America, a weekly opinion journal.
www.mclaughlin.com /about/bio.asp?pid=6   (360 words)

  
 E.J.N. - JOHN MC LAUGHLIN
One of the most versatile and influential guitarists of our time, John McLaughlin is known as an extraordinary solo artist, as the leader of both the group breaking Mahavishnu Orchestra and the revolutionary indo-jazz group Shakti and as the composer of some of the most stunning classical Jazz-fusion pieces ever written.
In addition to Lifetime, McLaughlin worked with Wayne Shorter and was personally invited to work and record with the legendary Miles Davis.
In 1988, parallel to his more classical oriented activities, John McLaughlin founded a new Trio with electric bass and percussion, which led to a long and deep musical friendship with the Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu.
www.ejn.it /mus/mclaughl.htm   (714 words)

  
 Longtime political columnist John McLaughlin dies at 70 (phillyBurbs.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McLaughlin, who died Thursday at his Morris Township home after a long battle with cancer and Parkinson's disease, was a journalist for more than five decades.
In the late 1970s, McLaughlin became the chief political correspondent for the New York Daily News, covering the foibles of mayors, governors and presidents, always with an eye for what that meant to the public.
McLaughlin also gained recognition for his "Lanes of Pain" columns in 1998, which showed the state's touted high-occupancy vehicle lanes on Routes 80 and 287 made traffic and pollution worse, not better.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/104-08172005-529132.html   (313 words)

  
 Elephant Talk: Interviews - John McLaughlin by Robert Fripp in Musician   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John is a dapper dresser; today he's in grey: flannels and pullover, shirt and tie not quite matching and just enough so that either you knew that he knew, or maybe he knew you didn't.
McLaughlin: Happily, my mother was an amateur musician; she was a violinist and there was always music going on in the house.
McLaughlin: Tony's a difficult person to know...but I have such enormous respect for him as a musician, as an artist...what he does with the drums.
www.elephant-talk.com /intervws/fripp-mc.htm   (5472 words)

  
 John McLaughlin - Thieves And Poets - Verve Records
The new CD begins with the three-part suite “Thieves and Poets,” which McLaughlin says “is in a way, a story of my musical journey through life.” The cinematic piece features McLaughlin on acoustic guitar along with the orchestra, conducted by Renato Rivolta.
John McLaughlin is without question one of the most important guitarists in music history.
Born in England, McLaughlin has influenced such jazz/fusion guitar greats as Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield, due in part to his appearances with artists ranging from Ginger Baker to the great Miles Davis, and even his own trio with DiMeola and Paco de Lucia.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?pid=10850   (347 words)

  
 Remember Shakti: Four people as one
McLaughlin believes the almost complete lack of mainstream knowledge, appreciation and availability of world music at the time of Shakti’s introduction also hampered its initial acceptance.
McLaughlin and Hussain remained friends and collaborators since the original group's disbanding in 1978 and even engaged in a brief Shakti reunion tour of India in 1984.
John has taken the time to study Indian classical music and figure out how we work, how we think and what our improvising techniques are.
www.innerviews.org /inner/shakti.html   (3979 words)

  
 WBTG-Lessons-Guitar Magazine September 1996- Over The Top
McLaughlin is describing what is sometimes referred to as the "Phrygian-Dominant" scale (in E: E F G# A B C D), so named because it includes a major 3rd and b7 -- defining notes of the Mixolydian or dominant scale -- and a b2, which is characteristic of the Phrygian mode.
A quick glance at the tab shows McLaughlin's approach to be three notes per string, but the jump at the beginning of bar 3 (the position at the string crossing) bears special attention.
No audible hiccup was heard from John McLaughlin as he played Example 1, though.
www.italway.it /morrone/WBTG-Lesson09.htm   (876 words)

  
 The McLaughlin Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John McLaughlin is an egomaniacal right-wing zealot frothing with hate and vitriol for no better reason than to hear the sound of his own lips flapping.
McLaughlin scuttled his own show when he became far too loud and domineering, and once his panel was replaced by Clinton lackey Eleanor Clift and the three bores, the show lost whatever redeeming qualities it once had.
Anyhoo, McLaughlin Group is a pretty good show in my opinion for what it is and it shouldn't be judged as either good or bad depending on whether you personally agree/disagree with the viewpoints expressed by McLaughlin or the panelists.
www.jumptheshark.com /m/mclaughlingroup.htm   (3458 words)

  
 Catholic New Yorkers: John McLaughlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
McLaughlin, 48, a parishioner of St. Catharine's in Blauvelt, is president of McLaughlin and Associates, a polling, strategy consulting and media buying firm.
McLaughlin's embrace of conservative Republicanism was not something instilled in him as a child.
McLaughlin's awakening as a conservative came, he said, as he developed an awareness of national and world events while in high school.
www.cny.org /cn070104.htm   (988 words)

  
 VH1.com : John McLaughlin : Biography
McLaughlin worked with Alexis Korner, Graham Bond, Ginger Baker, and others in the 1960s and played free jazz with Gunter Hampel for six months.
McLaughlin, who recorded a powerful spiritual album with Carlos Santana that was influenced by John Coltrane, put together a new Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1974 that, despite the inclusion of Jean-Luc Ponty, failed to catch on and broke up by 1975.
McLaughlin then surprised the music world by radically shifting directions, switching to acoustic guitar and playing Indian music with his group Shakti.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/mclaughlin_john/bio.jhtml   (346 words)

  
 Jazz Artist Biography - John McLaughlin@ jazzreview.com
With his revolutionary Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin became one of the most influential and individual fusion guitarists of the 1970s.
Born in Yorkshire England, on January 4, 1942, McLaughlin was encouraged to learn piano from age 9 by his mother, an amateur violinist.
Playing a double-barreled guitar, McLaughlin's demanding rhythmic playing is usually closer to a fusion of Indian Classical and rock, and the group's impetus is based upon lengthy riff-figures often used in multiples.
www.jazzreview.com /articledetails.cfm?ID=159   (630 words)

  
 My Way - News
He said the threats were not pinned specifically to the Democratic and Republican political conventions this summer but to the whole period before the November presidential election.
McLaughlin said the CIA had admitted the estimates were not all correct, and had done an internal review of sources, assumptions and spying methods before the Senate report.
McLaughlin said he did not know what plans the White House had for permanently filling the CIA director post.
news.myway.com /top/article/id/387144|top|07-13-2004::20:47|reuters.html   (544 words)

  
 JazzHouston | Jazz News | John McLaughlin Interview with Mark Towns
Since emerging from the jazz-rock scene in England during the 1960's, John McLaughlin has been committed to reshaping the language of the guitar into a personal, powerful musical expression of his inner vision.
Throughout the 70's, McLaughlin continued to experiment with contexts: his legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra set commercial and artistic precedents for electric fusion with the classic The Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire, albums which sold hundreds of thousands of records and led the band to perform to sellout crowds.
I recently spoke with McLaughlin in Paris by phone from radio station KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston for the following interview, portions of which will be aired on the station’s "Border Crossings" show Thursday September 25, between 10:00 a.m.
www.jazzhouston.com /news/words.jsp?pKey=1&key=555   (3781 words)

  
 Deputy Chief Resigns From CIA (washingtonpost.com)
John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said.
A CIA spokesman said McLaughlin's retirement "was a long-planned personal decision taken at a natural transition point in the administration and not connected to any other factors."
McLaughlin issued a statement that said: "I have come to the purely personal decision that it is time to move on to other endeavors."
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A46580-2004Nov12.html   (686 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: Shakti With John McLaughlin [LIVE]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John McLaughlin's Shakti was (and still is) a musical marvel like no other, blending Indian elements with the finest in-the-moment spontaneity of true jazz - and, as per usual for McLaughlin, often doing it at a dizzying pace that borders on the utterly insane.
McLaughlin is one of them, but not in his incarnation as a member of Shakti.
John Mclaughlin is a great guitarist, but he is not a master of Indian music; nowhere is that more obvious than on this cd.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027EV?v=glance   (1871 words)

  
 The McLaughlin Group
John McLaughlin: Issue number 1: the commander-in-chief in Mexico.
Pat Buchanan: John, Salinas is playing up his recent economic success and steering his..
Eleanor Clift: John, this is just another case of President Bush trying to push a policy..
snltranscripts.jt.org /90/90gmclaughlin.phtml   (451 words)

  
 The Korea Times : Guitarist John McLaughlin to Hold Concert in Seoul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John McLaughlin, one of the most influential guitarists of our time, brings his group Remember Shakti to the LG Arts Center on Feb. 1.
A few years later, McLaughlin went unplugged with the formation of Shakti, a group that brought together the Eastern and Western worlds in a unique form of Indo-jazz improvisation.
McLaughlin's career can be seen as one of the most versatile, having worked with Lifetime, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and Chick Corea.
times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200501/kt2005012017244511710.htm   (213 words)

  
 K. John McLaughlin, Ph.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John McLaughlin, Helga Kochanowski, Davor Solter, George Schwarzkopf, Piroska E. abo and Jeffrey R. Mann (1997).
Roles of the imprinted gene Igf2 and paternal duplication of distal chromosome 7 in the perinatal abnormalities of androgenetic mouse chimeras.
McLaughlin, K.J., Solter D., and Mann, J. The developmental consequences of two paternal copies of imprinted chromosome region distal 7 in mice.
www.med.upenn.edu /crrwh/McLaughlin.html   (649 words)

  
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John McLaughlin is known primarily for his hard-edged, geometric style of painting.
McLaughlin was born in Sharon, Massachusetts in 1898.
He was a part-time painter even while he worked as a dealer in Japanese prints and also as a translator during World War II in Japan, China, and Burma.
askart.com /artist/M/john_mclaughlin.asp?ID=30074   (268 words)

  
 The CyberMedia Group Consulting Staff
Bogen is a member of the New York and California bars and has been admitted to practice before the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, and the United States District Court for the Northern and Central Districts of California.
McLaughlin was the inventor of the original Information Industry Map at Harvard University's Center for Information Resources Policy, where he was a director for 10 years.
McLaughlin was Director of Strategic Planning for the U.S. Postal Service during the mid-70s to the mid-80s.
www.cybrmda.com /who.html   (3353 words)

  
 John Surman - musicolog.com
Born in Devon in 1944, composer/multi-instrumentalist John Surman is one of the key figures in a generation of European musicians who have crucially expanded the international horizons of jazz in the 70s and 80s.
As wll as his association with Westbrook, there was varied experience with Alexis Korner, Ronnie Scott, Humphrey Lyttleton, the Brotherhood of Breath and John McLaughlin, and he forged lasting relationships with John Warren, John Taylor and Dave Holland.
A further commission in 1996 from Salisbury Festival allowed John to return to a long-standing fascination with choral music, producing Proverbs and Songs, an extended work for solo saxophones, pipe organ (John Taylor) and the 80-strong Salisbury Festival Chorus, directed by Howard Moody, and premiered in Salisbury Cathedral.
www.musicolog.com /surman.asp   (1226 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Democracy Now! Interviews Right-Wing Journalists Bill Kristol and John McLaughlin at the DNC
Shortly after we spoke to John McLaughlin, we saw one of the chief spokespeople for the neocon movement, Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative publication the Weekly Standard.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: Right now, I think the majority of Americans feel that the war was a mistake.
AMY GOODMAN: That was John McLaughlin and shortly after we spoke with him, we saw one of the chief spokespeople of the neo-conservative movement, Bill Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/07/27/1430233   (1046 words)

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