Could this be the granddaddy of both new age and the world music movement? Fresh from his sojourn with Miles Davis's groundbreaking electric fusion band, guitarist John McLaughlin continued to explore that style with his own explosive electric group, the Mahavishnu Orchestra. However, he also recognized an affinity between jazz and Indian music, and began that investigation--which would later come to encompass his band, Shakti--with this acoustic date. My Goals Beyond is essentially two records: the first half a group session featuring Miles Davis bandmates Airto, Billy Cobham, Badal Roy, and Dave Liebman, as well as sitarist Mahalakshmi, violinist Jerry Goodman and bassist Charlie Haden; the second a solo guitar collection that combines originals with the modern jazz standards "Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat" and "Blue in Green." In its melding of international styles, and reliance on acoustic performances, My Goals Beyond is both a trendsetter and a harbinger of musical movements to come. Despite the passage of time, few of the albums it spawned live up to the performances it contains. --Fred Goodman
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Featuring: John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira, Charlie Haden, Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Mahalakshimi, Badal Roy, Dave Liebman When John McLaughlin arrived in New York from his native England , the twenty-seven year old guitarist was virtually unknown in the United States. But in no time at all he would find himself an integral part of some of the most important jazz activity then taking place in this country, with a rapidly growing reputation that would soon have him acknowledged as the foremost guitar player of the 1970s. When My Goals Beyond was released in 1971 Down Beat praised it as 3a compelling new view of the most exciting guitarist playing today,2 and Robert Palmer called it in Rolling Stone 3a quietly beautiful LP, certainly McLaughlin1s best.2 As the years have gone by its reputation has continued to grow and it has come to be regarded as a modern classic. For the critic Joachim E. Brendt, My Goals Beyond is the 3record which really established solo guitar playing - the forerunner of hundreds of solo guitar records which followed - and, in my opinion, it is still the most beautiful of them all.2 Knit Classics is proud to make My Goals Beyond available once again. Band members are...
Featuring: John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira, Charlie Haden, Billy Cobham,
Jerry Goodman, Mahalakshimi, Badal Roy, Dave Liebman
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