Check out John McLaughlin on Cherokee

Most people don't think of John McLaughlin as this kind of player, because they are familiar with a lot of his other work that is modern, but here he is burning up "Cherokee" - a jazz standard which is required repetiore for a bebopper.  It just shows you once again how important it is to be, rather than appear to be - esse quam videri.  Don't be a poser, learn your stuff, hit the practice room, so that you can be a jazz musician, and not a fraud.  Tell me, do you think after checking out this clip, that John McLaughlin spent some time in the shed?  The rest of the band isn't too shabby either.