Product Details

• Actors: John McLaughlin
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Abstract Logix
• DVD Release Date: May 20, 2008
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00158K164
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,476 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fractal Intent, June 20, 2008

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Keith Rutherford "krut" (DOUBLEVIEW, Western Australia Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: John McLaughlin: Meeting of the Minds - The Making of Floating Point (DVD)

This video gives the audience a front seat in the recording studio and gives us a rare opportunity to see John Mclaughlin's mastery of non western music and his gentle all pervasive leadership of a team of exceptional world musicians. John McLaughlin conceived and wrote the base scores for the five day recording session with particular combinations of instrumentalists in mind. He then proceeded to bring them together to collaborate and improvise on his themes with wonderful results.
A truly uplifting revelation of the creative power of collaboration in music and musicianship.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic., June 14, 2008

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Bryan C. Rombalski (Sanford, Mi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: John McLaughlin: Meeting of the Minds - The Making of Floating Point (DVD)

This is a gift for us musicians. What a pleasure to see a master at work. And the high quality of gifted players that join him are supreme. Plus the CD is top rate and ranks as one of his best.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars McLaughlin DVD review, April 9, 2009

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Gilbert Lemke (Santa Cruz Mountains, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: John McLaughlin: Meeting of the Minds - The Making of Floating Point (DVD)

I have been a big fan of John for almost 40 years. I have most of his albums and try to see him when ever he is on tour. In my opinion, this DVD is much better than going to a concert because you get a more intimate look into the process and the people. Typically at concerts, the sound mixing is poor, you have bad seats, the volume is too loud, plus, there is way too much jamming, which is not what draws me to his music. In this video, you are right there in the studio as they figure things out. It was interesting to see that John sometimes lays down the basic melody on keyboard and uses that to convey to the musicians. Only the keyboard work seems to be written on paper. Although I have followed John's music for many years, I didn't have any sense of his personality. He comes across as very warm and a genuinely nice guy. At one point Louiz Banks (on keyboard) takes improvisation a touch too far and John pulls the plug on that take. Everyone gets a good laugh. The musicians that John brought in are all excellent. I find myself following Louiz's background chords moreso than the guitar work. Sometimes the fingerwork of the guys on strings is so fast that you think that your DVD player momentarily went into fast forward. It's also nice to follow along with music that you may be familiar with, the Floating Point album, which is very nice (too bad they didn't get the grammy).