Jazz Articles about Jean-Luc Ponty

About Jean-Luc Ponty

Album Review

A living legend looks both backwards and forwards, crafting unique music of profound elegance. It’s been a while since Jean-Luc Ponty graced us with a solo album of this caliber. His rewarding detour into The Rite of Strings is behind him for now as the electric violinist revisits the pop-jazz fusion that made him a megastar in the 70s and 80s. Life Enigma is no regression, however. The pop consciousness of his past is transfigured into a sound more appropriate ...

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Album Review

Jean-Luc Ponty: Life Enigma

Read "Life Enigma" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2001

With his first solo release in seven years, famed jazz-fusion/world music violinist, Jean Luc Ponty also utilizes various digital instruments along with assistance from others on selected works. Here, the violinist contends that Life Enigma parallels a musical style that he explored during his late '70s Enigmatic Ocean and Cosmic Messenger outings. Expertly engineered, Ponty's latest features his often-crystalline performances on the “Zeta" electronic violins, as we would be hard pressed to have heard anything as immaculately recorded, thanks to ...