''Storytelling'' is an album by French
jazz fusion artist
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 admitt ...
, released in 1989. It is his second album on the
Columbia label.
Track listing
All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty unless otherwise noted.
#"In the Fast Lane" – 4:09
#"Tender Memories" – 5:20
#"Spring Episode" – 5:52
#"Pastoral Harmony" – 4:22
#"The Storyteller" – 4:26
#"The Amazon Forest" – 4:27
#"After the Storm" – 4:21
#"A Journey's End" – 4:24
#"Chopin Prelude No. 20 (with violin improvisation) (
Frédéric Chopin) – 2:59
Personnel
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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 admitt ...
– violin,
Synclavier synthesizer, keyboards
*
Grover Washington Jr. – soprano saxophone
(track 2)
*
Jamie Glaser
Jamie Glaser (born January 21, 1955 in New York City), is an American guitarist best known for his guitar work on popular television shows like ''Seinfeld'', ''Saved By The Bell'', and '' Married... with Children''. He has recorded and toured with ...
– electric guitar
* Wally Minko – piano, keyboards
* Clara Ponty – piano
(track 9)
*
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer. She is also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.
Her 1982 single "Forget Me Nots" received a Grammy Awar ...
– synthesizer
(track 2), synth solo
(track 7)
*
Baron Browne
Baron Browne was an American bass guitarist.
Career
Born and raised in Georgia, USA, Baron Browne gravitated to music at a very early age, learning to play his uncle's drumset at 7 years old. As a teenager he dabbled in piano lessons and at age ...
– electric bass
* Rayford Griffin – drums, percussion
* Kurt Wortman – percussion
(track 6)
;Production notes
* Jean-Luc Ponty – producer
* Brian Malouf – producer, engineer, mixing
* John Anthony – engineer
* Erik Zobler – engineer
* Peter Kelsey – overdub engineer
* Jeff Poe – assistant engineer, assistant tracking engineer
* Bernie Grundman – mastering
* David Coleman – art direction
* Nancy Donald – art direction
* John Cutcliffe – production coordination
* Kevin Fisher – studio assistant
* Lawrence Fried – studio assistant
* Adam Silverman – studio assistant
Charts
References
External links
Jean-Luc Ponty - ''Storytelling'' (1989) album review by Scott Yanow, credits & releasesat
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1989 albums
Jean-Luc Ponty albums
Columbia Records albums
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