Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean -Luc Ponty ( born September 29, 1942 in Avranches ) is a French jazz fusion violinist and composer.

Career

Ponty had then formed as a child of music teachers since the age of six violin lessons and was at the Paris Conservatory as a classical violinist; his interest in jazz was sparked by, among others, the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. 1960 and 1961, he worked as a musician in the symphony orchestra Concerts Lamoureux, but at the same time began to play at night in the jazz clubs of Paris. By 1964, he was then a member of the orchestra of Jef Gilson. He then founded his own group. The quartet with Wolfgang Dauner, Daniel Humair and Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen was successful internationally; he started to use an electric violin, which he agreed an octave lower than the classical violin.

He has worked among others with Michel Portal, Stephane Grappelli, Frank Zappa, Buell Neidlinger, Joachim Kühn, Daryl Stuermer and the Mahavishnu Orchestra and worked on more than 70 albums. In 1973 he turned consistently to the fusion jazz.

Since 1977, he sometimes uses a five-string violin with an additional low C -string, plus a six-string so-called Violectra with additional low C and F strings. Ponty was among the first musicians that the violin with wah-wah pedal, distortion pedals and other effects combined, thereby creating its typical, sometimes synth -like tone.

Since the mid- 1990s, the trio Rite of Strings with guitarist Al Di Meola and bassist Stanley Clarke, he also played acoustic violin. In 2005, Ponty acoustic jazz-fusion supergroup Trio! with Stanley Clarke and the banjo player Béla Fleck.

His daughter Clara Ponty is a singer and pianist.

Prizes and awards

In 1967 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt, 2007 in Stuttgart, the German Jazz Trophy.

Discography (selection)

  • Jazz Long Playing (1964 )
  • Violin Summit ( 1966) with Grappelli, Stuff Smith, Svend Asmussen, Kenny Drew, Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Alex Riel
  • Trio HLP (1966 ) with Daniel Humair and Eddy Louiss
  • George Gruntz Noon in Tunisia (1967 )
  • Sunday Walk ( 1967), with Wolfgang Dauner, Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Daniel Humair
  • Cantaloupe Iceland (1969 )
  • Jean -Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio ( 1969)
  • King Kong: Jean -Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (1970 ) with Ian Underwood, Ernie Watts, George Duke, among others Buell Neidlinger
  • Open Strings (1971 ), with Joachim Kühn, Philip Catherine, Peter Warren, Oliver Johnson
  • New Violin Summit ( 1971), with Don " Sugarcane " Harris, Michał Urbaniak, Nipso Brantner, Terje Rypdal, Wolfgang Dauner, Robert Wyatt, Neville Whitehead
  • Upon the Wings of Music ( 1975)
  • Aurora (1976)
  • Imaginary Voyage ( 1976)
  • Enigmatic Ocean (1977 )
  • Cosmic Messenger (1978)
  • A Taste for Passion ( 1979)
  • Civilized Evil (1980 )
  • Mystical Adventures (1982 )
  • Individual Choice ( 1983)
  • Open Mind (1984 )
  • Fables (1985 )
  • The Gift of Time (1987 )
  • Storytelling (1989 )
  • Tchokola (1991) ( with Guy Nsangué Akwa )
  • No Absolute Time (1993 )
  • The Rite of Strings with Stanley Clarke and Al Di Meola (1995 )
  • Le Voyage ( 1996)
  • The Very Best of Jean -Luc Ponty (2000)
  • Life Enigma (2001)
  • The Best of Jean -Luc Ponty (2002)
  • In Concert ( 2003) ( CD and DVD)
  • The Atacama Experience with Allan Holdsworth and Philip Catherine ( 2007)

With Frank Zappa

  • Hot Rats (1969 )
  • Over- Nite Sensation ( 1973)
  • Apostrophe (') ( 1974)
  • Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar (1981 )

Film

Lexigraphic entries

  • Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X
  • Wolf Kampmann, Loeb Classical Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart, Reclam, 2003; ISBN 978-3150105283
  • Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3-499-16513-9
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