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Life Enigma
''Life Enigma'' is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 2001. It is his first on his own label, JLP and arrives seven years since his last solo studio release ''No Absolute Time'' (1993). Critical reception Todd Jenkins stated in his '' All About Jazz'' review: "...Ponty shows he’s up to the task of carrying the spirit of fusion into the new millennium instead of just mining the same old spent lodes. Though it was a while in coming, ''Life Enigma'' was worth every minute of the wait." Glenn Astarita states "...if you're expecting some of the innovative pyrotechnics and high-octane jazz-fusion witnessed on some of his previous sessions you might be disappointed." while Ken Dryden in AllMusic proclaimed that "This is easily one of Jean-Luc Ponty's most compelling releases." Track listing All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty. # "Two Thousand-One Years Ago" – 4:20 # "Signals from Planet Earth" – 6:03 # "The Infinite Human Caravan" – 6:37 # "Lonely Among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer. Early life Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, graduating two years later with the institution's highest honor, Premier Prix (first prize). He was hired by the Concerts Lamoureux in which he played for three years. While still a member of the orchestra in Paris, Ponty picked up a side job playing clarinet (which his father had taught him) for a college jazz band, that regularly performed at local parties. It proved life-changing. A growing interest in Miles Davis and John Coltrane compelled him to take up tenor saxophone. One night after an orchestra concert, and still wearing his tuxedo, Ponty found himself at a local club with only his violin. Within four years, he was widely accepted as the leading figure in "jazz fid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Very Best Of Jean-Luc Ponty
''The Very Best of Jean-Luc Ponty'' is a compilation album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 2000. It mainly focuses on his work while on the Atlantic label. Track listing All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty. # "Bowing-Bowing" – 4:53 # "Aurora, Pt. 2" – 6:15 # "Renaissance" – 5:48 # "New Country" – 3:10 # "Enigmatic Ocean, Pt. 3" – 3:37 # "Mirage" – 4:54 # "Egocentric Molecules" – 5:49 # "Cosmic Messenger" – 4:41 # "I Only Feel Good With You" – 3:18 # "No Strings Attached" (live) – 6:02 # "A Taste for Passion" – 5:25 # "Forms of Life" – 4:50 # "Rhythms of Hope" – 4:03 # "Final Truth, Pt. 1" – 4:54 # "Individual Choice" – 4:56 # "Infinite Pursuit" – 5:59 Personnel *Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, autoharp, keyboards, electronic percussion, violectra *Chris Rhyne – synthesizer, piano, synthesizer bass * Patrice Rushen – organ, synthesizer, piano, clavichord, clavinet *Allan Zavod – keyboards, clavinet * Jamie Glaser – guitar *Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Jean-Luc Ponty
''The Best of Jean-Luc Ponty'' is a compilation album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 2002. It focuses on his work while on the Columbia label. Track listing All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty unless otherwise noted. # "Prologue" – 1:03 # "Faith in You" – 4:52 # "Tchokola" (Brice Wassy) – 5:48 # "Spring Episode" – 5:52 # "Metamorphosis" – 5:53 # "Tender Memories" – 5:20 # "Mouna Bowa" (Ponty, Guy N'Sangue) – 6:33 # "In the Fast Lane" – 4:10 # "The Gift of Time" – 5:06 # "After the Storm" – 4:21 # "Bottle Bop" (Yves N'Djock, Nsangue, Wassy) – 4:52 # "Prelude No. 20, Op. 28" ( Chopin) – 2:59 Personnel * Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, synthesizer, Synclavier, keyboards *Rayford Griffin – drums, percussion *Baron Browne – bass * Jamie Glaser – guitar *Pat Thomi – guitar *Wally Mino – piano, keyboards *Clara Ponty – piano * Patrice Rushen – synthesizer *Grover Washington Jr. Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Absolute Time
''No Absolute Time'' is an album by French jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ... artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1993. It marks his return to the Atlantic label. Track listing All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty. # "No Absolute Time" – 5:42 # "Savannah" – 9:18 # "Lost Illusions" – 5:03 # "Dance of the Spirits" – 4:59 # "Forever Together" – 5:46 # "Caracas" – 3:53 # "The African Spirit" – 4:58 # "Speak Out" – 6:23 # "Blue Mambo" – 6:12 # "The Child in You" – 4:33 Personnel *Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, keyboards, electric violin and viola, synthesizer *Martin Atangana – guitar * Kevin Eubanks – guitar (on "Blue Mambo") *Guy N'Sangue – bass, sound effects *Moustapha Cisse – percussion *Kémo Kouyaté – harp, background vocals, Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Jazz
''All About Jazz'' is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, ''Jazz Near You'', about local concerts and events. The Jazz Journalists Association voted ''All About Jazz'' Best Website Covering Jazz for thirteen consecutive years between 2003 and 2015, when the category was retired. In 2015, Ricci said the site received a peak of 1.3 million readers per month in 2007. Another source said that the site has over 500,000 readers around the world. Ricci was born in Philadelphia. He heard classical and jazz from his father's music collection. He played trumpet and went to his first jazz concert when he was eight. With a background in computer programming, he combined his interest in jazz and the internet by creating the ''All About Jazz'' website in 1995. The website publishes reviews, interviews, and articles pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synclavier
The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1990s. The instrument has been used by prominent musicians. History The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of Jon Appleton, Professor of Digital Electronics, Sydney A. Alonso, and Cameron Jones, a software programmer and student at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Synclavier I First released in 1977–78, it proved to be highly influential among both electronic music composers and music producers, including Mike Thorne, an early adopter from the commercial world, due to its versatility, its cutting-edge technology, and distinctive sounds. The early Synclavier I used FM synthesis, re-licensed from Yamaha, and was sold mostly to universities. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Albums
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