Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – My Goal’s Beyond
(Douglas Records 1971 SDGL69014)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
– some wear to edges/corners
Original Red Inner Sleeve
(there are a few light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from a few light dust crackles on side 2)
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“. In 2009, Down Beat Magazine included McLaughlin in its unranked list of “75 Great Guitarists”, in the “Modern Jazz Maestros” category. In 2012, Guitar World magazine ranked him #63 on its top 100 list. In 2010, guitarist Jeff Beck called him “the best guitarist alive”. McLaughlin was also referred to as the best guitarist alive by Pat Metheny.
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.
My Goal’s Beyond is the third solo album (after Extrapolation and Devotion) by guitarist John McLaughlin. The album was originally released in 1971 on Douglas Records in the US.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Peace 1” | John McLaughlin | 7:15 |
| 2. | “Peace 2” | John McLaughlin | 12:18 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” | Charles Mingus | 3:15 |
| 2. | “Something Spiritual” | Dave Herman | 3:35 |
| 3. | “Hearts and Flowers” | Theodore Moses Tobani | 2:05 |
| 4. | “Phillip Lane” | John McLaughlin | 3:35 |
| 5. | “Waltz for Bill Evans” | Chick Corea | 2:00 |
| 6. | “Follow Your Heart” | John McLaughlin | 3:17 |
| 7. | “Song for My Mother” | John McLaughlin | 3:30 |
| 8. | “Blue in Green” | Miles Davis/Bill Evans | 2:37 |
| Total length: | 43:27 | ||
Personnel
- John McLaughlin – acoustic guitar
- Charlie Haden – double bass
- Jerry Goodman – violin
- Mahalakshmi (Eve McLaughlin) – tanpura (Indian drone instrument)
- Dave Liebman – flute, soprano saxophone
- Billy Cobham – drums
- Airto Moreira – percussion
- Badal Roy – tabla
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