John McLaughlin Chick Corea Victor Wooten Lenny White Blue Note "Miles Beyond"

Second Set 12/11/16
Wooten/McLaughlin solos

[@abronxdude]

crazy how great Johnny M is. Every time I hear him go at it the hair on my arms and shoulders stand up. I was 19 in 1970 and he brings me back to those days every time! Every fucking note means something... Awesome.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

God u were so so lucky, do not take ur memories for granted whatever you do ,: 0

[@anneonym7346]

"Every fucking note means something" Really ?

[@michaelprice8440]

Victor Wooten wasn’t even born when this McLaughlin wrote this tune. The real birds of Fire.

[@michaelcorenzwit6860]

I first heard JM on a couple of recordings with Miles. I have almost every recording that he was part of. I marvel at his ability to still perform at his age. He is and always has been one of my favorite musicians. Bravo maestro!

[@mr.beaverchair3622]

John and Victor together are even more amazing than I always thought they'd be.

[@ricardomcvane2123]

Yes Sir.

[@Drivethebeat]

I could have done without actually

[@Hologhoul]

That is fucking marvellous! Always loved this track, full of vibe and atmosphere. When John starts shredding, he's so youthful (even now in 2024, in his 80s!) And his note selection has always been absolutely extraordinary and fascinating.

[@steffiheineck1514]

Every musician needs to learn this tune. Victor does a way-over-the-top solo while John M. just smiles and plays along.

[@SwampEye1]

Chick is the clock ... he's in the pocket ... whilst John takes off, goes soloing, does his thang and always finds back to the groove ....but the drummer ... he's a little shakey and even Wooten looses track in some moments ... I guess playing in the presence of greatness, of giants .. ain't that easy ....

[@1crashit]

It's just G, C and D right...LOL!!!

[@ofogo3758]

As someone living in a whirlpool of depression and other bullshit, anytime I see Matt Pike, that all disappears. It makes me so happy to live in the same time as him. God luck and good speed, my man. Keep on truckin’ Mr. Pike!

[@jug3435]

Have no knowledge of mr Pike, arrived via jmck. But as someone whiling in a cesspit of depression appreciate you input and will defo check out mr pike…thank you and I hope your D recedes real soon. 🙏❤️

[@mr.beaverchair3622]

High on Fire videos are that way 👉

[@yuvgotubekidding]

Any time he plays don't expect a carbon copy of the original recording. What you can expect is lightning in a bottle so be in the moment with him.

[@_nelson_1958]

🇧🇷Big fan since early Mahavishnu records a long time ago...

[@mikecimerian6913]

If people could interact in the same manner as free style musicians they would first decode, then understand, plan what is to be said then join in the conversation. What a fine World this would be.

[@sinsagoodmansbrother]

Nothing wrong with his hands brother.... This is F**KING awesome footage... I knew he played there with chick for a week or two and was sorry I couldn't make it... This is the next best thing... Damn, how he gets up to that speed still amazes me... Thanks for uploading these videos... Just awesome chops and speed from McLaughlin... I was hoping that Chick would release all the footage from that month long gig he did at the Blue Note!... This video is excellent... Thanks! Thanks! & Thanks again!!!

[@mbass718]

I was at this show and McLaughlin played great as always. He did 3 or nights with this lineup and a duo show with Chick before this. Chick was actually at the blue note for about 2 1/2 months..80 shows in total. McLaughlin is my favorite guitar player so no way was I missing this. I also caught the Miles tribute Chick did with Mike Stern..that was great but this show blew it away. Though I gotta say that John's show here at town hall last month was my fave show of the year. The Mahavishnu tunes were like a dream come true hearing all of them live with the awesome band he had as well as Jimmy Herring's band also doing the 3rd set of all Mahavishnu with John's band. It was literally like a religious experience gettin to finally hear all the Mahavishnu tunes I grew up on live in front of me. So wish he wasn't retiring..he played phenomenally!! But he has said he'll still do the occasional gigs here and there so hoping he comes back at some point. Seen him around 30 times over the years and this was definitely one of my fave times seeing him.

[@LRS905]

Damn. Giving Wooten to McLaughlin for this is like giving sliced yellow cheese to a gourmet.

[@mayajones9439]

RL R in

[@frankystareye529]

Brilliant Band! Thank you for posting and all.

[@johnsluggett1822]

One of the greatest "fusion" compositions. At times they bring to back some of the loopy Bitches Brew outness. After all, Wooten excepted, this is the core BB lineup.

[@teaguecrocco9209]

Incredible show both sets! Thanks for sharing!

[@gonzostage]

@carizmojones: i just saw him in Zurich John played for about 2 hours like a young god...! nothing wrong with his hands! its a real gift a present when you "go" like this with 75!

[@Wagiblues]

yeah - was there too at the Kongresshaus Zürich. Great remembrance. May be we have seen us - smile

[@SwampEye1]

john s daunting looks ,,,, omg .... as much as his playing ... 👌👍👍

[@asmrdadbod2483]

I saw John during the belohorizonte tour. It took him a couple tunes to warm up, but he shredded nicely.

[@anthonyhaas8096]

this is badass the only thing it lacks is Cobham on drums

[@finarollerz]

Lenny is badass, were you listening?

[@cmrdt]

what a performance!

[@christophermarshall]

My eyes are watering! Lovely..............just like the tune was on "Birds of Fire", but with a fair amount of "dusting of the shelves" of a more recently-made bookcase.

[@pgonzo98]

bullshit...it was all chops not related to the tune in anyway.. i'm speaking of wooten not john..

[@YAS6931]

Wooten grooves as hellllllll he should gives lessons to mohiny dey 😜😁....i love her

[@trygveknudsen3809]

John is one of my biggest heroes. But I would like to hear him get back to the tone he had on 'Electric Guitarist' and 'Electric Dreams' (1978/79), his finest guitar tone ever, in my opinion. I never quite liked the tone he's had since he started to play the PRS although I'm sure it's a fine guitar!

[@4Corners57]

I agree. His more modern tone is either a little too synthesized or too "smooth jazz". He needs an edge.

[@pierreherve8189]

John mclaughlin the greatest

[@petermaxwell4904]

this really IS a jam,

[@cavuotoj]

thanks, was only able to see the Last Sunday show which was also Fantastic

[@Jaycee37]

Woooten is awesome! Everyone in this band is just the BIZ!

[@mrkremko1]

Jaycee37 I thought his phrasing didn’t work in this setting

[@yelassinacoulibaly]

La musique,du Faso est une source intarissable de douceurs.
Elle permet de plonger au plus profond de soi et simultanément d'entrer en résonance avec son prochain, Yé Lassina Coulibaly

[@wilhelmbeck8498]

What a groove ...........

[@colinmackie8472]

Absolutely the Biz

[@syn707]

Give me some of that arthritis...I’d love to play like John!!!

[@tizmon]

There is no question of the bassist’s originality and talent. One phrase we know it’s Victor. I question his musical viability, though, especially after a guitar solo like this. Musician vs circus act?

[@bb57365]

The Master.🎸

[@jftuvell]

I love the bass and first saw Victor Wooten years ago with Bala Fleck. He’s a wonderful player with great creativity and percussive drive. In this setting, however, I think John Patitucci would have been a better fit, with both the chops and feel to match the setting. In an ideal world, Jaco would have also been around to sit in.

[@perrysar5954]

Am I the only one who thinks Wooten who I love is not the right man for this gig?

[@jeffwolinski2659]

Agree, too gimmicky.

[@JonesyTheCat]

Laid back mode, then badass mode!

[@LUIS.VENOSA]

Genial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelmclaughlin2142]

Wow! Just WOW.

[@2wayplebney]

Is Victor showing off here? You bet he is! Who wouldn't?

[@pgonzo98]

did the solo have a relationship with the song??? just chops....

[@carl7waters]

Great stuff !!! great band ignore the snobs they are just jealous anyway

[@mrkremko1]

Jimmy haslip would’ve been the perfect bassist in this setting

[@steveikerd7]

Jazz is what great players want to play when they tire of boundaries. Looking for meaning out of chaos.

[@rainbowriderjt7833]

Was that Victor Wooten on the Bass????

[@ricardomcvane2123]

Yep.Top notch.

[@J02V50]

What is the black box installed on JML's guitar ?

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Victor is great in this one

[@dogfacedboy6947]

If his Uncle Arthur is like mine, it comes and goes. He doesnt want to commit to a long schedule because he doesn't know WHEN Uncle Arth comes a-visiting. And STEVE MORSE is talking about it too! Thems my two, irrefutably my best teachers! It's feeling like... something's OVER.

[@kolobokbok]

Видно, что жуткие фирмачи! Белый похож на типичного американца с плаката. Басист, вообще, творит что-то невероятное! Круто!

[@EliSchwab]

Victor Wooten is just so damn good... they all are the peak of their games!

[@tim8030]

Wooten ?? I must disagree

[@EliSchwab]

You don't agree that he is an amazing bass player?

[@mrkremko1]

Yeah, Wooten’s solo didn’t work, not in my opinion. The choice of notes seemed questionable. His snappy staccato-way of playing always excites people though. This reminds me of Zakk Wylde playing with les Paul, all speed and no substance.

[@volpeverde6441]

Victor's way over the top....he's a good bassist,but what he's going doesn't fit what's going on....

[@cmillerphotos]

Will you just walk the fucking bass line, Woot? :-)

[@Drivethebeat]

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin! Where is the double axe in a museum some f****** where?

[@Avatar7x7]

Had my favorite sax player Kenny Garrett on stage ! They was in there do'n the "Johnny thousand Note" so he didn't git to play...smh LOL

[@SwampEye1]

Chick is the clock ... he's in the pocket ... whilst John takes off, goes soloing, does his thang and always finds back to the groove ....but the drummer ... he's a little shakey and even Wooten looses track in some moments ... I guess playing in the presence of greatness, of giants .. ain't that easy ....

[@johnsluggett1822]

Lenny White is a giant. Ever heard of Bitches Brew? Return to Forever? Red Clay by Freddie Hubbard?

[@tomn9094]

Hey John, may I have that guitar when you're finished with it ?

[@eduardorojo3842]

Excelente!!!

[@Sam-hf8nq]

I mean Victor Wooten has amazing talent and everything, but for me that solo was just a bunch of chaos. No space. No journey. Just noise and technical overkill.

[@johnsluggett1822]

Would you go as far as to say it sounds like shit?

[@jahova424]

Space..?

[@Carizmojones]

it's sad to see the shape of John's hands; the arthritis is taking him down. He's announced that this is his last year of performing and touring

[@Incog2k6]

Carizmojones Which makes it even sadder that John has performed with Victor Wooten for the first time only recently. They could have collaborated many times already, yet things only materialized now, literally right before John's retirement. The smile on his face during Victor's bass solo says it all. Too bad. Old age has taken yet another legend from us 😔. Let's hope that others like Chick or Herbie aren't being plagued by arthritis as well..

[@YouzTube99]

@Carizmojones, what is your source for the this?
I just searched and cannot find any other reference to it.

[@petermaxwell4904]

that is sad ! goddamit !

[@flyingcheesehead7601]

McLaughlin himself talks about it here:
www.soulandjazzandfunk.com/interviews/3650-qim-not-dead-yetq-guitar-legend-john-mclaughlin-talks-to-sjf-about-life-death-retirement-and-his-brilliant-new-album-black-light.html
And
Bill Milkowski mentions it here:
www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/02/notes-from-new-york-winter-jazzfest-john-mclaughli.html
Plus,
there's the not-so-revealing press release of his final US Tour:
www.johnmclaughlin.com/2016/10/the-meeting-of-the-spirits-tour-nov-dec-2017/

[@Maks2Art]

Great!

[@ninidesbois]

Il manque juste un violon 😢. Jean-Luc, où es-tu ? 😅

[@alansilverman8500]

How far "beyond" did the jam go...?

[@harry2928]

so hello........ ---why'd you cut it off ? Yes, that kinda ruins it.
Why-- What's the point. O.k. for what was there, but it woulda been Extra nice, tremendous, whatever if you'd have just let them finish! Isn't that the IDEA to "playing-a-tune".
Thanx for almost something. ??

[@4Corners57]

A worker at the venue stopped me recording. They don’t take kindly to extended recording there. I was lucky to get as much as I did.

[@RS-vj1co]

I vote for Victors name to also be in the title

[@4Corners57]

DONE!(ADDED LENNY TOO!)

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

I see Wooten is wearing mask for covid-19, they must have had covid back then, anybody confirm this? ,: 0

[@yuril9228]

shiza, juzz

[@condocord7544]

thin guitar tone does not cut it - this is a sleeper -good night

[@johndickson9677]

When does the music start?

[@Andrew-q8k]

I think you need to go back to your musical subterranean level and listen to bubblegum pop... leave real musicianship to those with an ear for the good stuff

[@joelrussell]

Victor is often too much show/flashy technique. He lacks a certain amount of musicality.

[@wadsmitter511]

4:43

[@sumoblues]

John McL's pinky is longer than my middle finger!

[@CBrolley]

Shame his guitar is buried in the mix.

[@TheDerekeder]

Both John and Chick tragically lost members to Scientology ... Rick Laird from Mahavishnu and Chick Corea from Return to Forever

[@XanAxDdu]

but we are all with the only mahavishnu one looking for the One

[@Joshualbm]

Victor should buy a flamenco guitar.

[@jimsmith4611]

Listened to the whole video fraid it's not for me..

[@Cordmichael]

Why is he so low down in the mix?

[@4Corners57]

Best I could do on my cell phone.

[@FunkATeer-qk7hq]

💜🤘🏿

[@blesseins4658]

John has just smoked that good enough Smoke from Belug's Stars ; ...my new movie for junkies a bit breathin' ...!!!

[@waltertaleno35]

They could play something more interesting having all these amazing muscicians, maybe this is not the best tune of the show.

[@maxcohen13]

Don't bogart it, Vic.

[@hugosinteuil287]

stop cette pub toujours la même avant la musique

[@kckennedy55]

His hands might be giving him some problem, but Benson is the one with hand problems. I don't know how often Mclaughlin plays out, but Benson is touring. I have commented before on his sound....hate it! He is and always will be great and one of my favorites. But damn he needs to get a Blu amp or something. Jennifer Batten uses them and they are great AND portable. I just don't like his sound anymore. And i don't like that PRS he is playing. Sounds like one of those damn DGT models. Sounds good for Grissom but crappy in John's hands.

[@4Corners57]

McLaughlin is doing a US tour this year starting in November. If you want to see him, you better go. He says this is his last US tour. He's turning 75 and, as you mentioned, he says arthritis is starting to hamper his ability to play. www.johnmclaughlin.com/tour-dates/

[@4Corners57]

And agreed on his sound. It needs a whole lot more bite/edge.

[@mayajones9439]

kckennedy55

[@visog]

Reboot the bass player... it's malfunctioning!?

[@davidpritchard7802]

Vic Wooten? It's a shit recording and you can't hear him properly.

[@deepindercheema4917]

at first I did not see the bass player. I thought someone had made one of those cheeky videos with really bad singing and playing

[@albertfish69]

hes my favorite guitarist ever, but its as if he purposefully goes for the shittiest tone possible.

[@metalmania1315]

I've noticed that with his recent stuff. sounds like he's playing through a shitty crate amp or something. His tone used to be so good in the double neck days and before with Miles.

[@p.schouten6597]

From an interview, I believe he stopped using amps entirely and goes straight into the PA.

[@mbass718]

Not sure what you mean cause his tone was phenomenal on this last Meeting of the Spirits tour. It wasn't as good at this Chick show but every time I've seen him his tone was perfect.

[@andyjay4695]

100% although his tone isn't as bad here as I've seen in other recent videos. His tone at the Berklee graduation was just awful haha

[@do.n.e.7161]

He's one of the many guitarists I listen to. I like guitar solos more particularly. No vocals like this one: ua-cam.com/video/iNcZ69PwNN0/v-deo.html

[@johnbuell8035]

This is just intensely boring. Victor Wooten’s solo at the beginning sounds like when your guitar has a faulty jack - it’s just noise.

[@georgeradcliffe7511]

Technically and his relationship with his, what appears to be a PRS, is second to none but, the resultant sound makes no MUSICAL sense whatsoever... Sorry, I prefer music that remains in my mind long after the musician has stopped playing.

[@isabelllowenherz2213]

Eigentlich vollkommenes Chaos. Der Kaiser ist nackt.

[@PaulJazz]

John McLaughlin, as always, still plays fast scales up and down the neck without any musical sense, with no melody sense at all, and he is still considered a great guitarist.

[@mishagasparovsky196]

Lol dude you are just completely clueless abou music, aren't you?

[@alberthaust4542]

I really enjoyed what he played. Perhaps a lot of classical music should go away because it uses fast scales. How about John Coltrane? I felt what McLaughlin played here.

[@JonesyTheCat]

Maybe you can't hear it, just because it is fast doesnt mean it isn't musical. Besides, it is slow, tasteful and very 'musical' at the beginning, not sure what you are talking about.

[@kckennedy55]

McLaughlin is one of my favorite guitarist. He is still great. Still has the chops. But that tone is god awful. I remember The Gibson double neck and Marshall stack at the Ford Auditorium in Detroit 1972. I remember the Mesa/Boogie amps at the Masonic Temple. I remember him BLOWING a Marshall stack at Ann Arbor, MI. The love, devotion, surrender tour with Carlos Santana. Please find an amp that brings out that old fire........Cause as much as I love your playing...........your sound is not good.

[@tim8030]

Wooten is so over rated. This is a perfect example.

[@jazzlefty]

Thias is a mahavisnu song..

[@ivanbolanos6973]

Tim I can't agree more with your comment, I mean, he doesn't even know what the fuck he's doing there, his style is not fussion, jazz or anything that can match with John's style or mahavishnu's, he's a joke

[@Kenyaprince]

The promoters are hoping you don't know more or lack there of, than they do about music and musicians...but alas, we do know more than them.'

[@louiskremer2000]

lol you're an idiot. Victor is an insane bass player.

[@mrkremko1]

louis kremer I think wooten’s solo was very out of place.

[@garymcaleer6112]

Never a wrong note, ... never a right note. Don't waste my time....

[@IIIITommyIIII]

👎👎👎 That is the greatest junk I ever heard!!! 👎👎👎

[@NickDuvet]

What a lame version this is. Even making allowances that they would not have rehearsed much, this is poor, especially from Lenny White. Do your homework guys! I was at Chick's 70th anniversary at the Blue Note when Gail Moran came on and they did Smile of the Beyond, and Brian Blade blew up a storm on the drums. Proper respect for the music

[@samsmith4216]

Yawnnnnnn

[@tommyseibel7902]

I hate overrated Bass playing, typical for Jazz Music. And the guitar player does nothing, and he is the leader, lots of keyboards, typical Jazz Music. Not my style. Hipster things

[@carloguarrera8568]

What a horrible guitar sound in the first part!