Name: Open Mind
Brand: Jean-Luc Ponty

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2023-06-02

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Absolute Label Services

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Jean-Luc Ponty is a French jazz musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born on September 29, 1942 in Avranches, France, he is renowned for his exceptional skills on the violin and keyboards. With a career spanning several decades, Ponty has established himself as one of the most influential figures in the jazz fusion genre.

Throughout his musical journey, Jean-Luc Ponty has collaborated with esteemed artists such as *Return To Forever*, *Mahavishnu Orchestra*, *Allan Holdsworth*, *Billy Cobham*, and many others. His unique blend of classical training and innovative improvisation sets him apart from other musicians in the industry.

Ponty's compositions are characterized by their intricate melodies and harmonies that effortlessly merge elements of jazz, rock, and world music. His mastery over both acoustic and electric instruments allows him to create captivating soundscapes that captivate audiences worldwide.

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. Ponty chose to use a Roland rhythm machine instead of faking real drum and percussion sounds and played all the keyboard parts himself in order to further explore the concept he had introduced in Individual Choice. He additionally asked two longtime friends to solo on various tracks: George Benson, whom JLP had met and played with when they were both 21 years old, and Chick Corea, who excels on two tracks with his Moog synthesizer. Open Mind has been re-mastered by 2023 Grammy Nominee Christoph Stickeland includes new liner notes.

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