[VIDEO] Week 8: Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Duet; RTF Meets Mahavishnu
Posted: January 21, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Chick Corea, Fusion, Jazz, John McLaughlin, Lenny White, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Music, New York, New York City, Return to Forever, RTF, The Blue Note, video Leave a comment
The Greatest Jazz Birthday Party Ever. Chick Corea @ 75, Blue Note Jazz Club, NYC
[VIDEO] Blue Note: Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Victor Wooten & Lenny White
Posted: January 7, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Afro-Cuban All Stars, Blue Note, Chick Corea, Jazz fusion, Jazz-Rock, John McLaughlin, Lenny White, Live Performance, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Music, New York City, Romantic Warrior, Victor Wooten Leave a comment

Corea was joined by a legendary group of musicians, including guitarist John McLaughlin, bassist Victor Wootenand drummer Lenny White. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Lenny White, Victor Wooten, at the Blue Note: ‘Miles Beyond’, December 19, 2016
Posted: January 5, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Blue Note, Chick Corea, Fusion, Jazz, John McLaughlin, Lenny White, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Music, NYC, Return to Forever, Victor Wooten, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] John McLaughlin & Chick Corea – White House Hosts International Jazz Day Concert 2016-04-30
Posted: October 7, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Chick Corea, International Jazz Day, Jazz, John McLaughlin Leave a comment
Carlos Santana Talks Reuniting Santana IV, New Band With Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin & Herbie Hancock
Posted: August 28, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Ashley Kahn, Carlos Santana, Chick Corea, Cindy Blackman, DTE Energy Music Theatre, George Avakian, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, Newport Jazz Festival, Wayne Shorter Leave a commentGary Graff reports: Carlos Santana is getting closer to the finishing the Santana IV project, which reunites members of the 1971-72 lineup of the band. But that’s not the only band he plans to launch in 2015.
“Definitely spring recording and summer touring in Europe and maybe America. Can you hear it? It’s kind of like playing with, sharing music with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, ’cause Wayne and Herbie, they’re at that level of genius, genius, genius, genius.”
The guitar legend tells Billboard that he and his wife Cindy Blackman Santana are forming a jazz fusion group called Supernova that will also include saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboardist Herbie Hancock and guitarist John McLaughlin.
“I’m just grateful that they accept it and want to do it. And every time I play with Cindy, it goes viral. People go crazy. The energy between Cindy and I is very, very supernova.”
“Definitely spring recording and summer touring in Europe and maybe America,” Santana says of their plans. “Can you hear it? It’s kind of like playing with, sharing music with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, ’cause Wayne and Herbie, they’re at that level of genius, genius, genius, genius. I’m just grateful that they accept it and want to do it. And every time I play with Cindy, it goes viral. People go crazy. The energy between Cindy and I is very, very supernova.”
[Read the full story here, at Billboard]
That said, Santana acknowledges being a bit skeptical as to how well a group like Supernova will play in his homeland. “America is still into ‘Tutti Frutti’ and that kind of stuff,” he says. Read the rest of this entry »