Mahavishnu Orchestra The Dance of Maya

Credits Bass Rick Laird Design Album Ron Coro Drums Billy Cobham Engineer Don Puluse Guitar, Composed By John McLaughlin Photography By Anthony Hixon Piano Jan Hammer Producer John McLaughlin Violin Jerry Goodman Review All Music Guide: This is the album that made John McLaughlin a semihousehold name, a furious, highenergy, yet rigorously conceived meeting of virtuosos that, for all intents and purposes, defined the fusion of jazz and rock a year after Miles Davis Bitches Brew breakthrough. It also inadvertently led to the derogatory connotation of the word fusion, for it paved the way for an army of imitators, many of whose excesses and commercial panderings devalued the entire movement. Though much was made of the influence of jazzinfluenced improvisation in the Mahavishnu band, it is the rock element that predominates, stemming directly from the electronic innovations of Jimi Hendrix. The improvisations, particularly McLaughlin s po