Belo Horizonte (album)

Belo Horizonte
Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedJune–July 1981
GenreJazz fusion, jazz
Length37:34
LabelWarner Music Group
ProducerJohn McLaughlin
John McLaughlin chronology
Electric Dreams
(1979)
Belo Horizonte
(1981)
Friday Night in San Francisco
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
All About Jazz[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Belo Horizonte is an album by English guitarist John McLaughlin, released in 1981 through Warner Music Group.[4] The album reached number 172 on the Billboard 200 and number 11 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.[5]

The album features McLaughlin on acoustic guitar, although the backing band includes electric keyboards. The same basic lineup would return on his next album Music Spoken Here. It is the first McLaughlin album including Katia Labèque, who would become his wife.

  1. ^ Yanow, Scott. Belo Horizonte at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 2011.
  2. ^ Kolosky, Walter (15 November 2002). "John McLaughlin: Belo Horizonte". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 135. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ "Belo Horizonte". Allmusic. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Belo Horizonte: Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 13 May 2011.