John Luc Ponty Plus Combined Efforts

They have George Duke on electric piano throughout and Ian Underwood on sax on both the opener and closer. He.

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Being Classical trained, joined CONCERTS LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA where due to the influence of some friends got interested in Jazz.

Incredibly his first works in Jazz were done playing the tenor Saxophone until 1962 when he returned to his first love the violin.

Frank ZAPPA for the release of Hot Rats nd then THE George DUKE TRIO for about a year.

In 1970 returns to France in order to form The JEAN-LUC PONTY EXPERIENCE until 1972 when comes back to USA to rejoin THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION.

In 1974 hes recruited BY JOHN MCLAUGHLINS MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA with whom he releases Apocalypse and Visions of Emerald Beyond playing a very important role in both albums.

John Luc Ponty Plus Combined Efforts

Even though he made a lot of independent projects before (like Jazz Long Playing in 1964, Sunday Walk 1967 or The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio in 1969) plus combined efforts with STEPHANE GRAPPELLI and many others His Progressive solo career starts in December 1975 with the first of four amazing releases, the incredible Aurora an album in which he blends perfectly not only Jazz and Progressive Rock as most Fusion artists do, but also adds clear touches of Symphonic Progressive mostly echoes from his early and complete Classical formation, a real gem that everybody should have.

During the next three years he completes his essential tetralogy that includes not only the previously mentioned Aurora.

During the next three years he completes his essential tetralogy that includes not only the previously mentioned Aurora, but also Imaginary Voyage, Enigmatic Ocean and Cosmic Messenger, also transcendental for the history of Progressive Rock.

From that point he starts to experiment with Euro Pop, Afro Jazz and even getting pretty close to New Age in some cases, most of this albums are incredibly experimental creating patterns of electronic sounds with the help of sequencers.

Honestly its hard to understand why this great musician has been forgotten by Prog Archives for such a long time, but I think at last justice is being done with his well-deserved inclusion.

If this still wasnt enough, he explored new rhythms and genres like JazzFusion, Afro Jazz, New Age, Electronic Prog, etc.

Just to add one more reason, he gave a chance to musicians that would form part of Progressive Rock bands like Darryl Stuermer (Genesis) and Philippe Catherine (Focus) IMO this is part of what Progressive Rock is about, to explore and expand the concept of music as an art.

See also: ANDERSON PONTY BAND Discography: Jazz Long Playing.

Studio album (1991) No Absolute Time, studio album (1992) The Jean-Luc Ponty with the George Duke Trio, studio album (1993) Live at Chene Park, live album (1996) Life Enigma, studio album (2001) Live at Semper Opera, live album (2002) Jean-Luc Ponty In Concert, live album (2004) read more.

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This really comes across as a Ponty Zappa collaboration as Frank re-arranged his 6 tracks on here and then plays.

They have George Duke on electric piano throughout and Ian Underwood on sax on both the opener and closer.