Having already released King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (Pacific Jazz, 1969) as part of its remastered reissue of Blue Note's 1976 two-disc compilation, Cantaloupe Island (BGO ...

While he continues his six-year (and counting) journey to complete the upcoming sequel to his 1976 debut album, former Yes vocalist Jon Anderson is already on to his next project: A new band with ...

Artists are often defined—and pigeon-holed—by the music that's had the best distribution, not necessarily their best music. Not that any of the fusion discs that Jean-Luc Ponty recorded in the ...

The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue ...

Jean-Luc Ponty is far from a traditional violinist. He grew up performing classical music and jazz, then went on to pioneer jazz-rock fusion during stints with Frank Zappa and the Mahavishnu Orchestra ...

French violinist and composer Jean-Luc Ponty has collaborated with a number of virtuosic and complex American music makers. He’s played with Frank Zappa, Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea.

It would seem almost demeaning to refer to the career of perhaps the most influential jazz violinist of his generation as accidental. But the word that landmark French instrumentalist Jean-Luc Ponty ...

AndersonPonty Band is the musical partnership of two giants of progressive rock: Jon Anderson the former singer for Yes and Jean-Luc Ponty, the legendary violinist who played with Mahavishnu Orchestra ...