Over the past decade guitarist John McLaughlin, other than working on his Industrial Zen (Verve, 2006) project, has devoted much of his time to a new version of his ground-breaking mid-'70s Indo-Jazz ...

Shakti – the fusion ensemble co-founded by UK jazz master John McLaughlin – has announced its first studio album in over four decades. For the record, McLaughlin and Hussain will be joined by vocalist ...

John McLaughlin. Ustad Zakir Hussain. Speak either name and a host of musical notions can come to mind. Pair them together and they conjure just one: Shakti. Indeed, the iconic jazz guitarist and ...

Death, disability and pestilence have kept the band Shakti from performing together for almost 10 years. But a new album, a miracle cure for John McLaughlin’s arthritic right hand, the end of the ...

Released today, This Moment, a 50th Anniversary celebration album from the groundbreaking global fusion ensemble, SHAKTI. As a cornerstone of what is now called World Music, the vision and virtuosity ...

Following word of the Summer 2023 release of This Moment - their first new studio album in 46 years - revolutionary world music ensemble Shakti will continue to discover and explore the musical common ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John McLaughlin has made brilliant and groundbreaking music over many decades, with The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis and many ...

Shakti, the ensemble co-founded by British guitarist and bandleader John McLaughlin and master Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain, has announced their plans to mark 50 years of music with a ...

To hear them tell it, the cofounders of Shakti — guitar great John McLaughlin, 81, and tabla master Zakir Hussain, 72 — are ecstatic whenever the group reunites for a concert. So expect the group’s ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Talk about a trial by heavy metal fire! English guitar giant John McLaughlin and Indian tabla drum virtuoso Zakir Hussain had just released the 1975 debut album by Shakti — their all-acoustic, Indian ...

Shakti, an unprecedented transcontinental collaboration between visionary tabla player Zakir Hussain and British guitarist and jazz fusion pioneer John McLaughlin, have announced a forthcoming tour in ...