Dimension

A little more than a week after he bagged a Grammy for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, legendary British jazz guitarist John McLaughlin will be performing in Mumbai. Together with his band, the 4th Dimension, featuring Ranjit Barot alongside bassist Etienne Mbappe and pianist and drummer Gary Husband, McLaughlin will be taking his audience on a hitherto unseen musical journey. The 75-year-old guitarist, better known as "Mahavishnu" John McLaughlin [thanks to his band Mahavishnu Orchestra that he formed in New York in 1971] started the 4th Dimension in 2007. He calls it the "greatest band of all time". Ask him why he says, "Because it integrates so many dimensions of the human being - from the most capricious to the most sublime."