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Albums by Jean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMD-StringzStanley Clarke, Biréli Lagrène & Jean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMLife EnigmaJean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMJazz Violin SummitJean-Luc Ponty, Stuff Smith & Stéphane Grappelli
ALBUMNew Violin SummitJean-Luc Ponty, Don 'Sugarcane' Harris, Nipso Brantner & Michał Urbaniak
ALBUMNo Absolute TimeJean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMTchokolaJean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMStorytellingJean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMThe Gift of TimeJean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMFablesJean-Luc Ponty
ALBUMOpen MindJean-Luc Ponty
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The Gift of Time
Jean-Luc Ponty
Artist Biography
France's Jean-Luc Ponty is a prolific recording artist, composer and bandleader. He pioneered the electric violin in jazz-rock in the 1970s, creating a distinctive sonic fusion that graced iconic albums by Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and others. Between 1975 and 1995, he released 15 consecutive top five albums. These included Upon the Wings of Music (1975), Enigmatic Ocean (1977), The Gift of Time (1987), Storytelling (1989), and The Rite of Strings (1995, alongside Stanley Clarke and Al Di Meola). 2007's The Atacama Experience featured guitarists Allan Holdsworth and Philip Catherine. In 2015, Ponty, with Clarke and Birelli Lagrene released D-Stringz, while he and vocalist Jon Anderson issued Better Late Than Never. They collaborated again on 2019's 1000 Hands: Chapter One. In 2022, MPS issued the archival Live at the Bern Jazz Festival with pianist Wolfgang Dauner. In June, Ponty appeared on house producer Ron Trent's single "Sphere."
Hometown
Avranches, France
Genre
Jazz