Rick McLaughlin

@rickmclaughlin.com

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Music superfan, bassist, educator (Berklee Prof.); https://linktr.ee/rickmclaughlinmusic and @rickmclaughlinmusic elsewhere

Overhead photo of double bass, a rack of guitars, vintage Ampeg amplifiers.
Band logo for Morning Camera - a manual, film SLR camera with davidchampagne.com printed on the lens
Concert poster for Morning Camera, featuring David Champagne, Russ Gershon, Dinty Child, Jerome Deupree, and Rick McLaughlin - live at Passim, July 31 at 8pm
Video of Santana’s Greatest Hits spinning on a dying turntable.
Audience photograph of Yebba and her band on stage at the Royale in Boston on May 26, 2026
Photo of instruments in a garage, getting ready for an informal outdoor concert
Notation of a Dmaj7 on top of a Cmaj7, spelled entirely in thirds. Known as “super-hyper-ultra-meta-mega-Lydian” by Jacob Collier.
Black and white image of the author’s hand and forearm, palm up. Concert bracelet with “musician” printed on it wrapped around the wrist.
Photo of the inside of the Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. This is of the altar featuring the stained glass Windows prominently.
Photographs of a rehearsal space with a drum set, Piano, and the author’s double bass.
Photo of RM playing electric upright bass during soundcheck.
Concert photo for Kris Adams at JP Tiny Desk, Sotheby’s, Jamaica Plain, 7:30pm, March 12
Promo photo for Hey Rim Jeon, pianist and Steinway artist. Features a gleeful Hey Rim seated at the piano.
Concert poster for Rick McLaughlin (bass), Joe Mulholland (piano), Alberto Netto (drums), called Triptych Project
Concert poster for Triptych Project, performing at 7:30pm on Jan 28, David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music
Image of a double bass from the perspective of the performer.
Author playing the bass part to Seven Steps to Heaven
Photograph of the author’s basses and amplifier. 1880s French bass, electric bass made from parts modeled after Sadowsky basses, GK amp and speaker cabinet.
Album cover for "Live at the Quick" by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Similar cartoon-esque drawing as "Cosmic hippo" but this featuring an image of a space ship flying on a television screen.
Album cover for "Reflection of a Clear Moon" by Garrison Fewell and Laszlo Gardony. Beautiful photo of the moon over the ocean.
Album cover for "The Individualism of Gil Evans", featuring a yellow-ish cover, album and artist on the left and a Picasso-esque obelisk on the right.
Album cover for "Declassified" by Excelsior, a great band from Boston transforming Shostakovich's preludes, music of Barber, Stravinsky and Poulenc for a band with accordion, electric violin, electric guitar and drums. Piano keyboards on top of the cover, strings on the bottom, album and title in the middle.
Author playing double bass
Author’s photo of the Ron Carter Foresight Quartet performing at Regattabar in Cambridge Ma Dec 5, 2025.
Getty image of Gunther Schuller conducting a student ensemble - jazz orchestra and string orchestra, blended - rehearsal. Author in center.
Album cover for Ethiopiques Vol 32, Either/Orchestra with Ethiopian guests, “Nalbandiam, The Ethiopian”.
Album cover for the Complete Riverside Recordings of Bill Evans.
Album cover for Trio 64 by Bill Evans.
Concert poster for Dave Bryant's Third Thursdays, November 20, 8pm; Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, $10 Details on left of poster, musician photos on right - Tsuyoshi Hong (saxophone), Dave Bryant (keyboards), Rick McLaughlin (double bass), James Kamal Jones (drums)
List of prominent jazz fusion musicians from the 1960s on…
Concert poster for Triptych Project, Nov 6 at 7pm at the Mad Monkfish in Cambridge
Album cover for the Dominique Eade album “my resistance is low“. The image is of Dominique, with her head down, as if taking a nap on a table top, hands under her head, laid upon some sheet music.
Album cover for “the very best of Ethiopiques“, which features an Ethiopian boy standing in what looks like some type of café, holding up his hand in a number one side.
Album art for Amanda Monaco’s Deathblow, an Anime inspired image of Amanda, guitar in hand, mid-jump/kick.
Concert poster for Dave Bryant’s Third Thursdays at Harvard Epworth Church, 8pm tonight Oct 16, $10
Russ Gershon Trio poster. Black and white photos of Rick McLaughlin (left, double bass), Russ (center, tenor saxophone), Brooke Sofferman (right, drums)
Poster of Stevie Wonder circa 1972, a purple and white color scheme
Sunset reflecting in the wind shields of three mail trucks lined up and parked in parallel.
Book of transcriptions of the music of King Crimson, Discipline era.
Album cover for: Ellington at Newport - color portrait of Duke with artist and title on the top and right side
Prog metal album cover for “Disciple” by Taliesin. Pink and purple hues with a Godzilla-like warrior in armor on the cover.
Album cover for Canyon. Thick black paint brush stroke moving in a winding, river like squiggle on a white background. Title and artist in upper left - Canyon, Jerome Deupree, Sylvie Courvoissier, Lester St Louis, Joe Morris
Concert poster for Dave Bryant’s Third Thursdays at the Harvard Epworth Church at 1555 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. 8pm, $10, Thursday Sept 18. Details listed here printed on the left of the poster, and to the right, photos of personnel: Tom Hall (tenor saxophone), Dave Bryant (piano), James Kamal Jones (drums), Ric McLaughlin (double bass).
Websites announcement for the Tom Snow Quartet featuring Ralph Norris at Jonathan’s Ogunquit in Ogunquit Maine. White background with Jonathan‘s Ogunquit logo and information about the show: Saturday, September 13 at 7:30 PM.
Video of Rick McLaughlin playing double base with concert dates sitting on top of the image. The dates are: Sept 2, 6pm - duo with Daniela Schachter @ Sogno, Woburn Sept 10, 7pm - Ensemble Eclectica @ Robbins Library, Arlington Sept 12, 7pm - monthly residency with Russ Gershon and Brooke Sofferman @ Oggi Gourmet, Harvard Square Sept 13, 8pm - Tom Snow Quartet at Jonathan’s Ogunquit, in Maine Sept 16, 6pm - duo with Daniela Schachter @ Sogno, Woburn
Music in the key of Eb major coming to an end, with a new section in G major - “Act III: Sept 1, 2025 - following.
Photograph of a double bass and bass amp. View from above.
Book cover for “manual for the monitor and drummer“ by Alan Dawson and Don DeMichael. A brown soft cover with a white binding. The cover has a somewhat Cubist drawing of a drum set along with title and author names. This is a Berklee press publication from when Berklee was on Newbury Street still. Sticker on the cover shows that it was purchased in Chicago.