To the One
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| Studio album by John McLaughlin | ||||
| Released | 20 April 2010 | |||
| Recorded | November – December 2009 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:01 | |||
| Label | Abstract Logix | |||
| Producer | John McLaughlin | |||
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| The Aquarian Weekly | (B+) |
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| All About Jazz | (favorable) |
To the One is an album released by British jazz guitarist John McLaughlin. It is his first album with his band, the 4th Dimension. The album was released in 2010 on Abstract Logix Records and was produced by McLaughlin. It reached number 27 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart and was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
I had no intention or idea or desire to make an homage, but the music came like that and reminded me of the marvelous event when I heard Love Supreme for the first time. It changed my life.
To the One was inspired by the 1965 John Coltrane album A Love Supreme. The liner notes were written by McLaughlin and detail how he was influenced by A Love Supreme both musically and spiritually.
The music came to McLaughlin over a five-week period in the summer of 2009. McLaughlin previously honoured the memory of Coltrane on his 1973 collaboration with Carlos Santana, Love Devotion Surrender.
The album was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album but lost to the Stanley Clarke album The Stanley Clarke Band. The other nominees were Never Can Say Goodbye by Joey DeFrancesco, Now Is the Time by Jeff Lorber, and Backatown by Trombone Shorty.
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