Apocalypse, released as part of the CBS Records` Contemporary Jazz Masters series, highlights the second, expanded Mahavishnu Orchestra fronting the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. A novel attempt to integrate classical sonorities into McLaughlin`s jazz-rock palette, Apocalypse echoes Third-Stream efforts of two decades earlier while losing none of the electric band`s gritty edge and probing improvisational twists. It`s a timeless classic.
