After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, McLaughlin made "Extrapolation", his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz-fusion albums "In a Silent Way", "Bitches Brew", "Jack Johnson", and "On the Corner". His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.