ABOUT WALTER

Walter Kolosky is best known for his work on the music of the guitarist/composer John McLaughlin. Kolosky is the author of the acclaimed book about the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Power, Passion and Beauty. (Now available in an updated Print on Demand version!) Follow Your Heart continued his study of McLaughlin’s music, song by song, since 1969. He lectured on that book in 2010 at the Cordoba Guitar Festival in Cordoba, Spain. Kolosky has written for many publications such as Jazz Improv, Jazziz, allboutjazz.com, jazz.com, Self & Society – International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, Swiss Guest Book and more. He has authored liner notes for John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Earth Code, Aurora Clara, Carl Orr, Wolfgang Schaulk and others. Kolosky is also co-host of the popular Jazz Rocks Podcast.

Walter has interviewed such luminaries as John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird, Jan Hammer, Jean-Luc Ponty, Narada Michael Walden, Ralphe Armstrong, Pat Metheny, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Gary Husband, Dennis Chambers, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Sir George Martin, Bill Frisell, Ken Scott, Steve Lukather, John Abercrombie, John Scofield, Bill Buford, Steve Morse, Lyle Mays, Jonas Hellborg, Danny Gottlieb, Peter Max, Steve Khan, Raul Mannola, Marco Anderson, Carl Orr, Kai Eckhardt and many others.