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Management number 254455466 Release Date 2026/11/07 List Price US$12.82 Model Number 254455466
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Legendary drummer Kenny Clarke compared Jean-Luc Ponty to Dizzy Gillespie. Fellow violinist Stuff Smith marveled, "He plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone." Born in 1942, the French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty transported jazz violin playing into the world of modern jazz. On Frank Zappa's urging, Ponty moved to the States in 1970. Over the next years he toured with Zappa, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Chick Corea's "Return to Forever". If Ponty's 1983 album Individual Choice was the sketchbook of his decision to take his music in a new direction, Open Mind (1984), released the following year, was a deeper exploration of the emerging world of synthesizers and sequencers and their impact on live and studio performance. Here, complex rhythmic patterns shift in the background while new sounds appear and disappear on the surface in colorful bursts, and outstanding jazz improvisors create familiar music in new settings. It's almost an audio version of a kinetic wind sculpture.

  • Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Mind - Music & Performance - CD
  • Music
  • MPS
  • Jazz
Performer Jean-Luc Ponty
Music genre Jazz
Music release type Release
Media format CD
Original release date 1984
Edition Standard
Is collectible Y
Has parental advisory label N
Number of discs 1
Series title Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Mind [COMPACT DISCS] UK - Import
Track listing Open Mind, Solitude, Watching Birds, Modern Times Blues, Orbital Encounters, Intuition
Record label MPS
Composer Jean-Luc Ponty
Songwriter Jean-Luc Ponty
Track name Open Mind, Solitude, Watching Birds, Modern Times Blues, Orbital Encounters, Intuition
Digital audio file format CD
Music media format CD

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