ℹ️ #
John_McLaughlin ( #
GuitarVirtuoso ) had been a member of #
Miles_Davis ' band and #
Tony_Williams_Lifetime. After the recording sessions of the
seminal Album 💽 1970 - Bitches Brew by #Miles_Davis , McLaughlin decided to form his own band called #Mahavishnu_Orchestra. He was the first to combine the fire of #
Jimi_Hendrix drenched #
Rock with the groove of #
John_Coltrane's #
ModalJazz & the #
Ethereal #Indian ragas of #Ravi_Shankar. The critics called it “jazz rock” (of course it was much more) and the result was nothing less than a
musical revolution. The Mahavishnu Orchestra has since been cited as a major influence on everyone from #King_Crimson to #Phish, and was in many ways one of the first #
Electric jam bands. Not surprisingly however, the music of the #Mahavishnu_Orchestra has not gone on to be covered or re-interpreted by the many bands it has affected, due largely to its
extreme #technical demands.