Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Mind - Music & Performance - CD
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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 |
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| 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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