{"id":24915,"date":"2023-03-07T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24915"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:26:44","slug":"interview-roundup-john-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/interview-roundup-john-mclaughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: John McLaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24916\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/extrapolation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/extrapolation.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/extrapolation-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/extrapolation-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>There have been few musicians as boundary-pushing and inspiring as John McLaughlin. Form his work with Miles Davis to his pioneering fusion ensemble Mahavishnu Orchestra, from his world music explorations (Shakti) to his collaborations with Carols Santana to his solo work, McLaughlin has never failed to impress.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, he\u2019s a wonderfully warm and personable interview subject, too. I had the honor of meeting the man, shaking his hand and having him autograph <i>Extrapolation<\/i>, his first solo album. Here are some of my interviews with the master.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4044\">My 2013 interview with John McLaughlin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/20\/the-john-mclaughlin-farewell-interview-part-one\/\">My first 2017 interview with John McLaughlin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/22\/bonus-a-quick-qa-with-john-mclaughlin\/\">My second 2017 interview with John McLaughlin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may also enjoy\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/album-review-john-mclaughlin-liberation-time\/\">My review of his 2021 album <i>Liberation Time<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/23\/album-review-miles-davis-jack-johnson-at-50-part-one\/\">My review of Miles Davis\u2019 Jack Johnson (featuring John McLaughlin)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/06\/miss-adventure\/\">A personal essay into which McLaughlin figures, if too briefly<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been few musicians as boundary-pushing and inspiring as John McLaughlin. Form his work with Miles Davis to his pioneering fusion ensemble Mahavishnu Orchestra, from his world music explorations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1187],"class_list":["post-24915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-john-mclaughlin","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24919,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24915\/revisions\/24919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}