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Walter Kolosky has written for allaboutjazz.com, jazz.com. Jazz Improv Magazine, Jazziz, and many other publications. He is best known for his work on the music of the guitarist and composer John McLaughlin. In 2010, he gave a lecture about John McLaughlin’s music at the Cordoba Guitar Festival in Cordoba, Spain. Kolosky is the author of the acclaimed book about the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Power, Passion and Beauty. His latest work, Follow Your Heart, continues his study of McLaughlin's music, song by song, since 1969. Follow Your Heart is an invaluable listener's guide, history, reference book and source of inspiration all rolled into one.

Walter was emcee for the 2010 New Universe Music Festival which featured John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, Jimmy Herring, Lenny White, Gary Husband, Ranjit Barot, Wayne Krantz and many other top notch musicians.

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With guitar legends Pepe Romero, Leo Brouwer and musician/collaborator/lecturer Marco Anderson. The photo was taken at the 2010 Cordoba Guitar Festival in Cordoba, Spain after the round table discussion that completed the 4-day John McLaughlin seminar.