Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Mind - COMPACT DISCS

Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Mind - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Open Mind

Artist:

Jean-Luc Ponty

Label:

MPS

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

4029759181248

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2023-05-19

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

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.

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