This is still music driven by a groove, but it's certainly not a house by numbers affair. Instead you get soaring violin solos (from Jean Luc Ponty no less), infinte threads of nimble keys work and ...

He subsequently made seven albums for the German MPS label between 1970 and 1976. Duke initially gained fame due to a fortuitous recording date when he was recruited by Jean Luc-Ponty for the album ...

When Jean-Luc Ponty first released Life Enigma i n 2001, it had been nine years since his last studio album. Coasting on a series of ‘best of’s and live excursions, there was a suspicion that the ...

French fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is to have his 2001 album Life Enigma released on vinyl for the very first time. The new vinyl edition will be reissued on the MPS/Edel label on May 17, along ...

Charlie: “We [sampled] a Jean-Luc Ponty record. I was surprised no one had touched it before. “Then we all come from Africa so have that offbeat, polyrhythmic thing within us. It’s normal. What’s ...

Jean-Luc gives his son something he’s craved his whole life: approval and unconditional love. And Jean-Luc also won’t let his son go.

French fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is to have three of his 1980 and 1990s albums reissued through the MPS/Edel label over the next few months. 1984's Open Mind will be reissued on May 12 ...

Jean Luc-Ponty’s treated violin on the sweet ballad “Mellow” and “Legs” Larry Smith’s tap-dance enlivening the jaunty, darkly humorous teen suicide ditty “I Think I’m Going to Kill ...

Nevertheless, the long-running live configuration of Collins-Rutherford-Banks with Jean-Luc Ponty guitarist Daryl Stuermer and Weather Report drummer Chester Thompson was not without its charms.

By the time Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke were recorded in 1994 at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival—remarkably, in their first time ever playing together in public—each had ...

Under the concept ‘WARM’, Trent’s reputation precedes him on his latest album What Do The Stars Say To You. Paying ode to the vinyl long-player, he not only plays guitar, drums and keys, but recruits ...