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K.C. Undercover
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K.C. Undercover
Genre
Comedy
Created by
Corinne Marshall
Starring
Zendaya
Veronica Dunne
Kamil McFadden
Trinitee Stokes
Tammy Townsend
Kadeem Hardison
Theme music composer
Andrew Love
Joacim Persson
Johan Alkenas
Opening theme
"Keep It Undercover"
by Zendaya
Composer(s)
Bert Selen
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
75 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Rob Lotterstein
Jared Hoffman
Eileen Conn
Darin Henry
Producer(s)
Vic Kaplan
Jenn Lloyd & Kevin Bonani
Kevin O'Donnell
Zendaya
Camera setup
Videotape (filmized)
Multi-camera
Running time
21–29 minutes
Production company(s)
Rob Lotterstein Productions
It's a Laugh Productions
Release
Original network
Disney Channel
Picture format
720p (HDTV)
Original release
January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18) – February 2, 2018 (2018-02-02)
External links
Website
Production website
K.C. Undercover is an American comedy television series created by Corinne Marshall that originally aired on Disney Channel from January 18, 2015 to February 2, 2018. The series stars Zendaya as a teenager named K.C. who becomes a spy.
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1 Plot
2 Characters
2.1 Main
2.2 Recurring
3 Production
4 Episodes
5 Ratings
6 Broadcast
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
Set in Washington, D.C., the series follows K.C. Cooper, a high school math genius who gets recruited by her parents, Craig and Kira Cooper, after she discovers that they are secretly undercover spies working for an agency called The Organization. Her brother, Ernie, tries to help because he feels left out, and eventually joins the team, and his desire leads Craig and Kira to get a new robot child named Judy.
Each episode centers on K.C. and her family as they contend with common familial issues while also performing missions to save the country, with a recurring storyline involving thwarting the plans of a criminal organization called the Other Side.
The third season introduces a renegade organization called the Alternate which is against the Organization and the Other Side with plans to destroy the United States government to change the world their way.
Characters[edit]
Main[edit]
K.C. Cooper (Zendaya) is a high school student by day and a undercover spy whenever. She is highly proficient at math, and karate. She is a member of a government spy organization. She is the daughter of Kira and Craig Cooper. Sister to Ernie Cooper. Granddaughter to Gayle King and Othello King.
Marisa Clark[1] (Veronica Dunne) is K.C.'s best friend. She is cheerful, girly and a very outgoing person. In "Photo Bombed", she learns about K.C.'s spy life.
Ernie Cooper (Kamil McFadden) is K.C. and Judy's brother and a stereotypical nerd. He is a computer genius and joins the family's spy team in "My Sister From Another Mother...Board". He is often ignored by his parents (especially his father, who treats him as expendable during missions), which gives him a severe inferiority complex.
Judy Cooper[1] (Trinitee Stokes) is K.C. and Ernie's sarcastic robot sister who looks like a 10-year-old girl. Her robotic nature makes her very smart, but she has no social skills, although she is considered to be sassy. Her name stands for "Junior Undercover Digital Youth". She does not appear in the show until "My Sister from Another Mother...Board", when the Cooper parents believe Ernie wouldn't make a good enough spy before he quickly proves them wrong.
Kira Cooper (Tammy Townsend) is mother to K.C., Ernie, and Judy and also an undercover spy.
Craig Cooper (Kadeem Hardison) is father to K.C., Ernie, and Judy and also an undercover spy.
Recurring[edit]
Agent Johnson (Rick Hall) is the leader of the Organization. In the series finale, it’s revealed that he is the mask.
Beverly (Sherri Shepherd) is the head of the Organization. She is good friends with the Cooper family.
Petey (James DiGiacomo) is a "friend" of Judy's. Judy finds him annoying, as he has proven to be skeptical of the Cooper household, when Judy is alone. He's shown to be obnoxious and loud every time he screams out Judy's name.
Mrs. Goldfeder (Jaime Moyer) is the Coopers' neighbor and Petey's mother. Like Petey, she is also obnoxious and loud, frequently visiting the Cooper's house.
Brett Willis (Ross Butler) is an enemy spy and K.C.'s ex-boyfriend. In "Operation: Other Side, Part 2", it's shown that Brett was kicked out of the Organization, after he was discovered working as a double agent and being the son of Zane, he now works for the Other Side as a hand-to-hand combat instructor. In "K.C. and Brett: The Final Chapter" Brett was sent to kill K.C., but failed, and he is now currently on the run from the Other Side in Canada.
Zane (Francois Chau) is a member of the Other Side and the father of Brett. After Richard is captured by the Coopers, he becomes the new leader of the Other Side until he was apprehended again.
Victor (Lee Reherman) is the underboss of the Other Side.
Abby (Kara Royster) is the long-lost cousin of K.C. and Ernie and the daughter of Erica Martin and Richard Martin. She is secretly a member of the Other Side who was sent to reactivate her mother's status.
Erica (Jasmine Guy) is the sister of Kira, the estranged wife of Richard Martin, the mother of Abby, the aunt of K.C. and Ernie, and a member of the Other Side who went inactive.
Richard (Rick Fox) is the father of Abby, the husband of Erica, and the uncle of K.C. and Ernie. He is the leader of the Other Side that has eluded the Organization.
Brady (Connor Weil) is an enemy agent who works for a renegade spy organization known as the Alternate. He appears in the third season where he manipulates Marisa into helping him following Zane's arrest. In the episode The Revenge of the Van People, it is revealed that he is a double agent now working for the Organization.
Production[edit]
The series was first announced as a pilot in pre-production titled Super Awesome Katy in November 2013. The series was set to star Shake It Up star, Zendaya, who would play 16-year-old Katy Cooper, an outspoken and confident technology wiz and skilled black belt, who discovers that both her parents are spies who expect her to follow in their footsteps. Production on the pilot was set to begin in early 2014.[2] On November 6, 2013, Zendaya tweeted about the pilot, saying she wants to bring back the "cool Disney Channel", mentioning shows like That's So Raven, The Proud Family, and Kim Possible.[3] It was ordered to series by Disney Channel in May 2014, with the series now under the title K.C. Undercover.[4] The series was released on Watch Disney Channel on January 1, 2015, and was followed by the television premiere on January 18, 2015.[5] The first season consisted of 27 episodes. On May 15, 2015, Disney Channel renewed the series for a second season,[6] which premiered on March 6, 2016. On August 1, 2016, People revealed that the series had been renewed for a third season.[7] The third season premiered on Disney Channel on July 7, 2017.
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of K.C. Undercover episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 27 January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18) January 24, 2016 (2016-01-24)
2 24 March 6, 2016 (2016-03-06) January 13, 2017 (2017-01-13)
3 24 July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07) February 2, 2018 (2018-02-02)
Ratings[edit]
Season
Episodes
First aired
Last aired
Avg. viewers
(millions)
Date
Viewers
(millions)
Date
Viewers
(millions)
1 27 January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18) 3.51[8] January 24, 2016 (2016-01-24) 2.02[9] 2.30
2 24 March 6, 2016 (2016-03-06) 2.08[10] January 13, 2017 (2017-01-13) 1.18[11] 1.51
3 24 July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07) 1.24[12] February 2, 2018 (2018-02-02) 1.16[13] 1.10
Broadcast[edit]
In Canada, the series premiered on Family Channel on January 23, 2015,[14] and moved to Disney Channel on September 1, 2015. During the launch week of Disney Channel, the episode "Runaway Robot" aired on September 1, 2015, a week before the U.S.[15] The series premiered on Disney Channel in Australia and New Zealand on March 5, 2015.[16] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the show premiered on March 27, 2015, on Disney Channel. On Disney Channel in Southeast Asia, it premiered in Singapore on March 13, 2015, and in the Philippines on April 10, 2015.[citation needed] The show debuted on the English feed of Disney XD in the Middle East and Africa on October 12, 2015.[17] In India, the series premiered on October 30, 2017 on Disney International HD.[18]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Lakeitcha Thomas (February 1, 2018). "Fact Sheet: K.C. Undercover". Disney Channel. Archived from the original on February 24, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
Jump up ^ Philiana Ng (November 6, 2013). "Shake It Up Star Zendaya to Topline Disney Channel Spy Pilot". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Zendaya on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ Philiana Ng (May 8, 2014). "Disney Channel Orders Zendaya's K.C. Undercover to Series". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
Jump up ^ "New Series K.C. Undercover Starring Zendaya to Premiere Sunday, January 18, on Disney Channel". Screener. December 11, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
Jump up ^ "K.C. Undercover Renewed for Season 2 at Disney Channel". TV Line. May 15, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
Jump up ^ Patrick Gomez (August 1, 2016). "Watch Zendaya Transform into a Portly Old Man for K.C. Undercover". People. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (January 21, 2015). "Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals: 1.18.2015". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (January 26, 2016). "Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals: 1.24.2016". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (March 8, 2016). "Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals: 3.6.2016". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (January 17, 2017). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals: 1.13.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (July 10, 2017). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals: 7.7.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
Jump up ^ Mitch Metcalf (February 5, 2018). "Top 150 Friday Cable Originals: 2.2.2018". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
Jump up ^ Family Channel (January 16, 2015). "Don't Miss the Premiere of K.C. Undercover!". YouTube. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Get Ready Canada! Disney Channel Arrives on September 1!". Corus Entertainment. August 11, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
Jump up ^ "K.C. Undercover: Zendaya Reveals Her Latest Series". Foxtel. February 26, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
Jump up ^ Andrew Germishuys (August 31, 2015). "Disney XD Programming Highlights for October 2015". South African Movie Database. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ "K C Undercover on Disney International HD - Launching Oct 29". YouTube.
External links[edit]
K.C. Undercover on IMDb
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Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor
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Katherine MacGregor
Born
Dorlee Deane MacGregor
(1925-01-12) January 12, 1925 (age 93)
Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names
Scottie MacGregor
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1951–1983
Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor (born Dorlee Deane MacGregor; January 12, 1925, Glendale, California) is a retired American actress, best known for her role as Harriet Oleson in Little House on the Prairie.[1]
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She is best known for her comedic performance as Harriet Oleson from 1974-83 on Little House on the Prairie.[2] As a child, her mother moved them to Denver, Colorado, where she lived until she moved to New York as a young adult. In the 1940s she was hired by the Arthur Murray Dance Studios in New York City as a dance instructor. She studied acting under Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler.[3] MacGregor's favorite description of her character in Little House came in a fan letter from Minnesota in the 1970s, in which Mrs. Oleson was described as "the touch of pepper in the sweetness of the show". In 1979, thanks to the popularity of Little House in Spain, MacGregor was invited to Madrid, Spain and appeared on RTVE's 625 Lineas program. After Little House on the Prairie, she withdrew from screen productions in favor of local theater. She dedicated herself to the Hindu religion, and to teaching acting to children at the Wee Hollywood Vedanta Players, before finally retiring in the early 2000s.[citation needed]
Beginning in the 1950s, MacGregor worked in theatre on and off Broadway in New York,[3] and won such uncredited parts as "a longshoreman's mother" (On the Waterfront); "Alice Thorn" (The Traveling Executioner) and "Miss Boswell" (The Student Nurses). She appeared in numerous episodes of various television series: Love of Life (1956), Play of the Week (1959), East Side/West Side (1963), Mannix (1970–71), Emergency! (1972), Ironside (1972, 1974), and All in the Family (1973), as well as the two 1981 "Heroes vs. Villains" episodes of Family Feud hosted by Richard Dawson. She had roles in the TV movies, The Death of Me Yet (1971), The Girls of Huntington House (1973), and Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974).
Personal life[edit]
She was briefly married to actor Bert Remsen, one month her junior, in 1949-50, and to actor, director and teacher Edward G. Kaye-Martin, 14 years her junior, from August 1969 to October 1970.[citation needed]
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1954 On the Waterfront Longshoreman's Mother Uncredited
1956 Love of Life Tammy Forrest #1 Unknown episodes
1959 Play of the Week Maria Episode - "The Power and the Glory"
1963 East Side/West Side Grace Morrison Episode - "Go Fight City Hall"
1970 The Traveling Executioner Alice Thorn Uncredited
1970 Mannix Nurse Evans Episode - "The World Between"
1970 The Student Nurses Miss Boswell
1971 The Young Lawyers Mrs. Brady Episode - "The Bradbury War"
1971 The Death of Me Yet Nora Queen TV movie
1971 Mannix Nurse Episode - "Run Till Dark"
1972 Ironside Mrs. Pyle Episode - "Programmed for Panic"
1972 Emergency! Myrna Scudder Episode - "Musical Mania"
1973 The Girls of Huntington House Rose Beckwith TV movie
1973 All in the Family Nurse Episode - "Edith's Christmas Story"
1974 Tell Me Where It Hurts Marge TV movie
1974 Ironside Irma Episode - "Amy Prentiss" (Parts 1 & 2)
1974–1983 Little House on the Prairie Harriet Oleson 153 episodes
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Luchina Fisher (2011-08-26). "Melissa Gilbert Files for Divorce from Bruce Boxleitner". ABC News.
^ Jump up to: a b Buck, Jerry (11 June 1981). "Katherine MacGregor Plots Her Own Downfall". Greenville Daily Advocate. Associated Press. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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John McLaughlin (musician)
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John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin, Chick Corea's 75th Birthday, Blue Note Jazz Club, New York City, 10 December 2016
Background information
Also known as
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
Born
(1942-01-04) 4 January 1942 (age 76)
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England
Genres
Jazz, Jazz fusion, world fusion, progressive rock, psychedelic rock
Occupation(s)
Musician, songwriter
Instruments
Guitar
Years active
1963–present
Labels
Douglas, Columbia, Verve, Abstract Logix
Associated acts
Miles Davis, Tony Williams Lifetime, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti, Remember Shakti, Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola, Carlos Santana, Katia Labèque, Zakir Hussain, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Joey DeFrancesco, Jimmy Herring
Website
www.johnmclaughlin.com
John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer. His music includes many genres of jazz which he coupled with elements of rock, Indian classical music, Western classical music, flamenco and blues to become one of the pioneering figures in fusion.
After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, and On the Corner.
His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.
McLaughlin has been cited as an influence by a number of prominent musicians. He is a Grammy Award winner and has been awarded multiple "Guitarist of the Year" and "Best Jazz Guitarist" awards from magazines such as Down Beat and Guitar Player based on reader polls. In 2003, he was ranked 49th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[1] In 2009, Down Beat Magazine included McLaughlin in its unranked list of "75 Great Guitarists", in the "Modern Jazz Maestros" category.[2] In 2012, Guitar World magazine ranked him #63 on its top 100 list.[3] In 2010, guitarist Jeff Beck called him "the best guitarist alive".[4] McLaughlin was also referred to as the best guitarist alive by Pat Metheny.[5]
McLaughlin's solo on the cut "Miles Beyond" from his album Live at Ronnie Scott's won the 2018 Grammy Award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.[6]
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 1960s
1.2 1970s
1.2.1 The Mahavishnu Orchestra
1.2.2 Shakti
1.2.3 Other activities
1.3 1980s
1.4 1990s
1.5 2000s
2 Style
3 Influence
4 Personal life
4.1 Activism
5 Discography
6 Equipment
7 References
8 External links
Biography[edit]
1960s[edit]
John McLaughlin was born on 4 January 1942 to a family of musicians (his mother being a concert violinist) in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. McLaughlin studied violin and piano as a child and took up the guitar at the age of 11, exploring styles from flamenco to the jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. He moved to London from Yorkshire in the early 1960s, playing with Alexis Korner[7] and the Marzipan Twisters before moving on to Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, the Graham Bond Organisation (in 1963)[8] and Brian Auger.[9] During the 1960s he often had to support himself with session work which he often found unsatisfying[10] but which enhanced his playing and sight-reading. Also, he gave guitar lessons to Jimmy Page.[11] In 1963, Jack Bruce formed the Graham Bond Quartet with Bond, Ginger Baker and John McLaughlin. They played an eclectic range of music genres, including bebop, blues and rhythm and blues.
In January 1969, McLaughlin recorded his debut album Extrapolation in London. It prominently features John Surman on saxophone and Tony Oxley on drums. The album's post-bop style is quite different than McLaughlin's later fusion works, though it gradually developed a strong reputation among critics by the mid-1970s.
McLaughlin moved to the U.S. in 1969 to join Tony Williams' group Lifetime. A recording from the Record Plant, NYC, dated 25 March 1969, exists of McLaughlin jamming with Jimi Hendrix. McLaughlin recollects "we played one night, just a jam session. And we played from 2 until 8, in the morning. I thought it was a wonderful experience! I was playing an acoustic guitar with a pick-up. Um, flat-top guitar, and Jimi was playing an electric. Yeah, what a lovely time! Had he lived today, you'd find that he would be employing everything he could get his hands on, and I mean acoustic guitar, synthesizers, orchestras, voices, anything he could get his hands on he'd use!"
He played on Miles Davis' albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew (which has a track named after him), Live-Evil, On the Corner, Big Fun (where he is featured soloist on "Go Ahead John") and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. In the liner notes to Jack Johnson, Davis called McLaughlin's playing "far in". McLaughlin returned to the Davis band for one night of a week-long club date, recorded and released as part of the album Live-Evil and of the Cellar Door boxed set. His reputation as a "first-call" session player grew, resulting in recordings as a sideman with Miroslav Vitous, Larry Coryell, Joe Farrell, Wayne Shorter, Carla Bley, the Rolling Stones, and others.
1970s[edit]
John McLaughlin, Cirkus Krone-Bau, Munich, West Germany, 9 June 1973
He recorded Devotion in early 1970 on Douglas Records (run by Alan Douglas), a high-energy, psychedelic fusion album that featured Larry Young on organ (who had been part of Lifetime), Billy Rich on bass and the R&B drummer Buddy Miles. Devotion was the first of two albums he released on Douglas. In 1971 he released My Goal's Beyond in the US, a collection of unamplified acoustic works. Side A ("Peace One" and "Peace Two") offers a fusion blend of jazz and Indian classical forms, while side B features melodic acoustic playing McLaughlin on such standards as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", by Charles Mingus whom McLaughlin considered an important influence. My Goal's Beyond was inspired by McLaughlin's decision to follow the Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, to whom he had been introduced in 1970 by Larry Coryell's manager. The album was dedicated to Chinmoy, with one of the Guru's poems printed on the liner notes. It was on this album that McLaughlin took the name "Mahavishnu".
In 1973 McLaughlin collaborated with Carlos Santana, also a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, on an album of devotional songs, Love Devotion Surrender, which featured recordings of Coltrane compositions including a movement of A Love Supreme. McLaughlin has also worked with the jazz composers Carla Bley and Gil Evans.
McLaughlin performing in The Netherlands, 1978
In 1979 he formed a short-lived funk fusion power trio named the Trio of Doom with Tony Williams on drums and Jaco Pastorius on bass. Their only live performance was on 3 March 1979 at the Havana Jam Festival (2–4 March 1979) in Cuba, part of a US State Department sponsored visit to Cuba. Later on 8 March 1979 the group recorded the songs they had written for the festival at Columbia Studios, New York, on 52nd Street. Recollections from this performance are captured on Ernesto Juan Castellanos's documentary Havana Jam '79.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra[edit]
Main article: Mahavishnu Orchestra
McLaughlin's 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra,[12] included violinist Jerry Goodman, keyboardist Jan Hammer, bassist Rick Laird, and drummer Billy Cobham. They performed a technically difficult and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Eastern and Indian influences. This band helped establish fusion as a new and growing style. McLaughlin's playing at this time was distinguished by fast solos and non-western musical scales.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra's personality clashes were as explosive as their performances, and consequently the first incarnation of the group split in late 1973 after two years and three albums, including a live recording entitled Between Nothingness and Eternity. In 2001 the Lost Trident Sessions album was released; recorded in 1973 but shelved when the group disbanded. McLaughlin then reformed the group with Narada Michael Walden (drums), Jean-Luc Ponty (violin), Ralphe Armstrong (bass), and Gayle Moran (keyboards and vocals), and a string and horn section (McLaughlin referred to this as "the real Mahavishnu Orchestra"). This incarnation of the group recorded two more albums, Apocalypse with the London Symphony Orchestra and Visions of the Emerald Beyond. A scaled-down quartet was formed with McLaughlin, Walden on drums, Armstrong on bass and Stu Goldberg on keyboards and synthesiser, which generated a third "Mahavishnu 2" recording in 1976 largely due to contractual obligations, Inner Worlds.
Shakti[edit]
McLaughlin then became absorbed in his acoustic playing with his Indian classical music based group Shakti (energy). McLaughlin had already been studying Indian classical music and playing the veena for several years. The group featured Lakshminarayanan L. Shankar (violin), Zakir Hussain (tabla), Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram (ghatam) and earlier Ramnad Raghavan (mridangam). The group recorded three albums: Shakti (1975) A Handful of Beauty (1976), and Natural Elements (1977). Based on both Carnatic and Hindustani styles, along with extended use of konnakol, the band introduced ragas and Indian percussion to many jazz aficionados.[13]
In this group McLaughlin played a custom-made steel-string J-200 acoustic guitar made by Abe Wechter and the Gibson guitar company that featured two tiers of strings over the soundhole: a conventional six-string configuration and seven strings strung underneath at a 45-degree angle – these were independently tuneable "sympathetic strings" much like those on a sitar or veena. The instrument's vina-like scalloped fretboard enabled McLaughlin to bend strings far beyond the reach of a conventional fretboard. McLaughlin grew so accustomed to the freedom it provided him that he had the fretboard scalloped on his Gibson Byrdland electric guitar.
Other activities[edit]
John McLaughlin, Remember Shakti Concert, Munich/Germany (2001)
McLaughlin also appeared on Stanley Clarke's School Days and numerous other fusion albums. They later recorded three tracks at CBS Studios in New York, 8 March 1979. The same year he teamed up with flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía and jazz guitarist Larry Coryell (replaced by Al Di Meola in the early 1980s) as the Guitar Trio. For the tour of fall 1983 they were joined by Dixie Dregs guitarist Steve Morse who opened the show as a soloist and participated with The Trio in the closing numbers. The Trio reunited in 1996 for a second recording session and a world tour. Also in 1979 McLaughlin recorded the album Johnny McLaughlin: Electric Guitarist, the title on McLaughlin's first business cards as a teenager in Yorkshire. This was a return to more mainstream jazz/rock fusion and to the electric instrument after three years of playing acoustic guitars.
Left to right: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía performing in Barcelona, Spain in the 1980s
1980s[edit]
The short-lived One Truth Band recorded one studio album, Electric Dreams, with L. Shankar on violins, Stu Goldberg on keyboards, Fernando Saunders on electric bass and Tony Smith on drums. After the dissolution of the One Truth Band, McLaughlin toured in a guitar duo with Christian Escoudé.[14]
With the group Fuse One, he released two albums in 1980 and 1982.[15]
In 1981 and 1982, McLaughlin recorded two albums, Belo Horizonte and Music Spoken Here with The Translators, a band of French and American musicians who combined acoustic guitar, bass, drums, sax, and violin with synthesizers. The Translators included McLaughlin's future wife, classical keyboardist, Katia LaBeque.
From 1984 through to (circa) 1987, an electric five-piece operated under the name "Mahavishnu" (omitting the "Orchestra"). Two LPs were released, Mahavishnu and Adventures in Radioland. The former featured McLaughlin making extensive use of the Synclavier synthesizer, allied with a Roland guitar/controller. The first of the two albums was recorded with a line-up of McLaughlin, Bill Evans (saxophones), Jonas Hellborg (bass), Mitchel Forman (keyboards) and both Danny Gottlieb and Billy Cobham on drums. Initial advertising for concert dates in support of the album included Cobham's name, but by the time the tour started in earnest, Gottlieb was in the band. Forman left at some point between the albums, to be replaced on keyboards by Jim Beard.
In tandem with Mahavishnu, McLaughlin worked in duo format (c. 1985–87) with bassist Jonas Hellborg, playing a number of concert dates, some of which were broadcast on radio and TV, but no commercial recordings were made.
In 1986 he appeared with Dexter Gordon in Bertrand Tavernier's film Round Midnight. He also composed The Mediterranean Concerto, orchestrated by Michael Gibbs. The world premier featured McLaughlin and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was recorded in 1988 with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Unlike what is typical practice in classical music, the concerto includes sections where McLaughlin improvises. Also included on the recording were five duets between McLaughlin and his then-girlfriend Katia Labèque.
In the late '80s McLaughlin began performing live and recording with a trio including percussionist Trilok Gurtu, and three bassists at various times; firstly Jeff Berlin, then Kai Eckhardt and finally Dominique DiPiazza. Berlin contributed to the trio's live work only in 1988/89, and didn't record with McLaughlin. The group recorded two albums: Live at The Royal Festival Hall and Que Alegria, the former with Eckhardt, and the latter with di Piazza for all but two tracks. These recordings saw a return to acoustic instruments for McLaughlin, performing on nylon-string guitar. On Live at the Royal Festival Hall McLaughlin utilised a unique guitar synth which enabled him to effectively "loop" guitar parts and play over them live. The synth also featured a pedal which provided sustain when pressed. McLaughlin played parts which sound overdubbed and creating lush soundscapes, aided by Gurtu's unique percussive sounds. This approach is used to great effect in the track "Florianapolis", among others.
1990s[edit]
In the early 1990s he toured with his trio on the Que Alegria album. By this time, Eckhardt had left, with McLaughlin and Gurtu joined by bass player Dominique Di Piazza. In the latter stages of this trio's life, they were joined on tour by Katia Labeque alone, or by Katia and her sister Marielle, with footage of the latter configuration forming part of a documentary on the Labeque Sisters. Following this period he recorded and toured with The Heart of Things featuring Gary Thomas, Dennis Chambers, Matt Garrison, Jim Beard and Otmaro Ruíz. In 1993 he released a Bill Evans tribute album entitled Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans, with McLaughlin's acoustic guitar backed by the acoustic guitars of the Aighetta Quartet and the acoustic bass of Yan Maresz. In recent times McLaughlin has toured with Remember Shakti.
In addition to original Shakti member Zakir Hussain, this group has also featured eminent Indian musicians U. Srinivas, V. Selvaganesh, Shankar Mahadevan, Shivkumar Sharma, and Hariprasad Chaurasia. In 1996, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola (known collectively as "The Guitar Trio") reunited for a world tour and recorded an album of the same name. They had previously released a studio album entitled Passion, Grace, & Fire back in 1983. Meanwhile, in the same year of 1996 McLaughlin recorded The Promise. Also notable during the period were his performances with Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco.
2000s[edit]
In 2003 he recorded a ballet score, Thieves and Poets, along with arrangements for classical guitar ensemble of favourite jazz standards and a three-DVD instructional video on improvisation entitled "This is the Way I Do It" (which contributed to the development of video lessons.[16]) In June 2006 he released the post-bop/jazz fusion album Industrial Zen, on which he experimented with the Godin Glissentar as well as continuing to expand his guitar-synth repertoire.
In 2007 he left Universal Records and joined Abstract Logix. Recording sessions for his first album on that label took place in April. That summer, he began touring with a new jazz fusion quartet, the 4th Dimension, consisting of keyboardist/drummer Gary Husband, bassist Hadrian Feraud, and drummer Mark Mondesir. During the 4th Dimension's tour, an "instant CD" entitled Live USA 2007: Official Bootleg was made available comprising soundboard recordings of six pieces from the group's first performance. Following completion of the tour, McLaughlin sorted through recordings from each night to release a second MP3 download-only collection entitled, Official Pirate: Best of the American Tour 2007. During this time, McLaughlin also released another instructional DVD, The Gateway to Rhythm, featuring Indian percussionist and Remember Shakti bandmate Selva Ganesh Vinayakram (or V. Selvaganesh), focusing on the Indian rhythmic system of konnakol. McLaughlin also remastered and released a shelved 1980 project called The Trio of Doom, featuring jazz/fusion luminaries Jaco Pastorius and Tony Williams. The project had been aborted due to conflicts between Williams and Pastorius as well as what was at the time a mutual dissatisfaction with the results of their performance.
On 28 July 2007, McLaughlin performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Bridgeview, Illinois.
McLaughlin, 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival
On 28 April 2008 the recording sessions from the previous year surfaced on the album Floating Point, featuring the rhythm section of keyboardist Louis Banks, bassist Hadrien Feraud, percussionist Sivamani and drummer Ranjit Barot bolstered on each track by a different Indian musician. Coinciding with the release of the album was another DVD, Meeting of the Minds, which offered behind the scenes studio footage of the Floating Point sessions as well as interviews with all of the musicians. He engaged in a late summer/fall 2008 tour with Chick Corea, Vinnie Colaiuta, Kenny Garrett and Christian McBride under the name Five Peace Band, from which came an eponymous double-CD live album in early 2009.
McLaughlin performed with Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Billy Cobham at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, on 2 July 2010, for the first time since the band split up. In November 2010, a new book was released by Abstract Logix Books entitled Follow Your Heart- John McLaughlin Song by Song by Walter Kolosky, who also wrote the book Power, Passion and Beauty – The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra. The book discussed each song McLaughlin wrote and contained photographs never seen before.
Style[edit]
John McLaughlin is a leading guitarist in jazz and jazz fusion. His style has been described as one that incorporates aggressive speed, technical precision, and harmonic sophistication.[17] He is known for using non-Western scales and unconventional time signatures. Indian music has had a profound influence on his style, and, it has been written, he is one of the first Westerners to play Indian music to Indian audiences.[18] He was influential in bringing jazz fusion to popularity with Miles Davis, playing with Davis on five of his studio albums, including Davis' first gold-certified Bitches Brew, and one live album, Live-Evil. Speaking of himself, McLaughlin has stated that the guitar is simply "part of his body," and he feels more comfortable when a guitar is present.
Influence[edit]
Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin in 1979
McLaughlin has been cited as a major influence on many 1970s and 1980s guitarists. Examples are prominent players such as Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Mike Stern, Al Di Meola, Shawn Lane, and Scott Henderson. Current players still hold him as highly influential, including Omar Rodríguez-López of the Mars Volta,[19] Paul Masvidal of Cynic,[20] and Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan.[21] According to Pat Metheny, McLaughlin has changed the evolution of the guitar during several of his periods of playing. McLaughlin is also considered a major influence on composers in the fusion genre. In an interview with Downbeat, Chick Corea remarked that "what John McLaughlin did with the electric guitar set the world on its ear. No one ever heard an electric guitar played like that before, and it certainly inspired me. John's band, more than my experience with Miles, led me to want to turn the volume up and write music that was more dramatic and made your hair stand on end". Frank Zappa said of McLaughlin: "A person would be a moron not to appreciate McLaughlin's technique. The guy has certainly found out how to operate a guitar as if it were a machine gun. But I'm not always enthusiastic about the lines I hear or the ways in which they're used. I don't think you can fault him, though, for the amount of time and effort it must have taken to play an instrument that fast. I think anybody who can play that fast is just wonderful. And I'm sure 90% of teenage America would agree, since the whole trend in the business has been 'faster is better'."[22]
Perhaps the most unusual tribute to McLaughlin's influence came in the 1970s from the musician and comedian Darryl Rhoades. In the 1970s, he led the "Hahavishnu Orchestra," which did parodies of the funk, rock and jazz musical styles of the era. [23]
Personal life[edit]
McLaughlin is currently married to his fourth wife Ina Behrend.[24] They had a son in 1998.[25] Since the late 1980s, he has lived in Monaco.[26][27] He formerly lived with the French pianist Katia Labèque, who was also a member of his band in the early 1980s. Before that he was married to Eve Kolosky when he was a disciple of Sri Chinmoy. He was first married to Sue, with whom he had a son Julian in 1966.[28]
Activism[edit]
McLaughlin, alongside Behrend, supports a Palestinian music therapy organization, Al-Mada, who run a program called "For My Identity I Sing." McLaughlin performed in Ramallah, Palestine in 2012 with Zakir Hussein and in 2014 with 4th Dimension.[citation needed]
Discography[edit]
Main article: John McLaughlin discography
Equipment[edit]
Gibson EDS-1275 – McLaughlin played the Gibson doubleneck between 1971 and 1973,[29] his first years with the Mahavishnu Orchestra;[30] this is the guitar which, amplified through a 100-watt Marshall amplifier "in meltdown mode," produced the signature McLaughlin sound hailed by Guitar Player as one of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time."[31]
Double Rainbow doubleneck guitar made by Rex Bogue, which McLaughlin played from 1973 to 1975.[32][33]
The first Abraham Wechter-built acoustic "Shakti guitar,"[34] a customised Gibson J-200[35] with drone strings transversely across the soundhole.[36]
Gibson Byrdland on albums Inner Worlds and Electric Guitarist
He has also played Godin electric/MIDI guitars. He discusses the Godin and other gear in an interview for Premier Guitar online.[37]
McLaughlin endorses PRS guitars.[38]
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