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JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
At 70, the guitar virtuoso still revels in his dynamic musical journey
By Jeff Tamarkin
John McLaughlin remembers some odd advice he once received from Miles Davis—cryptic words at the time, but later made perfect sense. It was 1969, and the young guitar master was working in the studio with the jazz titan when “Miles made this Zen statement,” recalls McLaughlin. “He told me, ‘Play like you don’t know how to play guitar.’”...