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Jean-Luc Ponty - Jazz Long Playing (1964) [Reissue 2000] (Repost)

Jean-Luc Ponty - Jazz Long Playing (1964) [Reissue 2000]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 247 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 97 MB | Covers - 50 MB
Genre: Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (548 150-2)

These 1964 sessions marked jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty's recording debut as a leader. In spite of his choice of instrument, he was mainly influenced by bop musicians (especially saxophonists and trumpeters) rather than fellow Frenchmen, swing violinist Stéphane Grappelli. At this stage in his career, he chose mostly compositions by European musicians of his generation, along with tunes American jazz compositions that had stood the test of time. His angular playing in Martial Solal's "Une Nui Au Violon" contrasts with his later venture into jazz fusion, while his dash through Charlie Parker's "Au Privave" is almost immediately halted to first showcase drummer Daniel Humair then flautist Michel Portal before he takes center-stage with a blazing solo…

Jean-Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage (1976)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 11, 2022
Jean-Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage (1976)

Jean-Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage (1976)
Vinyl Rip | 32-bit/384 kHz | WavPack(Tracks) > 3.32 Gb | Artwork(jpg) > 4.89 Mb
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 1.42 Gb
or 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 433 Mb
Atlantic SD 19136 | US | Jazz Rock, Fusion

As of 1976, Jean-Luc Ponty's variations on the Mahavishnu Orchestra theme were still fresh and imaginative, cast in a distinctively different, more lyrical, more controlled framework. For Imaginary Voyage, Ponty's instrumental lineup is identical to that of Mahavishnu – electric violin, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums – but he turns the emphasis on its head, with all commands coming directly from the violin (his) and less competitive crossplay emanating from his colleagues…

Jean-Luc Ponty - No Absolute Time (Remastered) (1993/2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 9, 2023
Jean-Luc Ponty - No Absolute Time (Remastered) (1993/2023)

Jean-Luc Ponty - No Absolute Time (Remastered) (1993/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 329 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:56:50
Jazz Fusion, Crossover Jazz, Afrobeat | Label: MPS Records

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".
Stanley Clarke / Bireli Lagrene / Jean-Luc Ponty - D-Stringz (2015) {Impulse}

Stanley Clarke / Bireli Lagrene / Jean-Luc Ponty - D-Stringz (2015) {Impulse}
EAC 1.1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 299MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 128MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Fusion

The occasion for this trio to work together was a 2010 concert that celebrated violinist Jean-Luc Ponty's 50th anniversary as a recording artist. Both the violinist and Stanley Clarke had collaborated before (a previous electric trio set with Al Di Meola, the Rite Of Strings was issued in 1995), but neither had collaborated with French jazz guitarist Bireli Lagrene prior to that evening. In playing for a mere 20 minutes, they created the impetus for D-Stringz – though it took two years for them to clear their schedules and get into a Brussels studio. These ten tunes are an assortment of standards and originals. The album is an acoustic, straight-ahead date that employs flawless swinging bop and post-bop, as well as 21st century takes on gypsy and soul-jazz and funk.

Jean-Luc Ponty - Individual Choice (Remastered) (1983/2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 25, 2023
Jean-Luc Ponty - Individual Choice (Remastered) (1983/2023)

Jean-Luc Ponty - Individual Choice (Remastered) (1983/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 220 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 86 Mb | 00:37:14
Jazz Fusion, Electronic | Label: MPS Records

By 1982, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty had established an enviable reputation as a pioneer in jazz-rock and jazz fusion. He began as a young bebop player in the late 1950s with little interest in becoming another swing or gypsy style violinist. It was the "sheets of sound" music of John Coltrane that spoke loudest to him. By the early 1970s Ponty was recording and touring with rock composer Frank Zappa, and playing with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, as well as releasing his own music on Atlantic Records. He bought himself a sequencer and synthesizer and carried them around while traveling so he could record new ideas. As ever, he was ready to experiment with new techniques to capture ideas for projects he was planning. The end result surprised and intrigued him.

Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean (1977)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 24, 2021
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean (1977)

Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean (1977)
Vinyl Rip | 32-bit/384 kHz | WavPack(Tracks) > 3.59 Gb | Artwork(jpg) > 4.44 Mb
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 1.57 Gb
or 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 484 Mb
Atlantic, SD 19110 | US | Jazz Rock, Fusion, Prog Rock

Consistently imaginative, Enigmatic Ocean is one of Jean-Luc Ponty's finest accomplishments. The French violinist recorded his share of fusion gems during the 1970s, and this album is at the top of the list. Often aggressive but sometimes reflective and moody, this LP is as unpredictable as it is adventurous…
Jean-Luc Ponty - Original Album Series Vol. 2 (2016) {5CD Box Set}

Jean-Luc Ponty - Original Album Series Vol. 2 (2016) {5CD Box Set}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,21 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 511 Mb
Scans Included | 03:18:34 | RAR 5% Recovery
Atlantic / Rhino Records / Warner Music Group #0081227955380
Jazz / Jazz Rock / Fusion

A pioneer of the electric violin in the 1970’s, and an inspired manipulator of sequencers and synthesisers in the 1980’s, Jean-Luc Ponty is the undisputed master of his instrument in this area. Experimenting with electronics and synthesis, he liberated the violin’s image and capabilities from classical or folk settings. After cutting several albums for the World Pacific label in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, In 1974, fresh from a tour with the Mahavishnu Orchestra until he signed a solo deal with Atlantic Records. Throughout the next decade, he was to record a dozen visionary albums, 5 of which are included here.

Jean-Luc Ponty - No Absolute Time (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 28, 2022
Jean-Luc Ponty - No Absolute Time (1993)

Jean-Luc Ponty - No Absolute Time (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 347 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 158 Mb | Scans included
Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Afrobeat | Label: SPV | # SPV 084-93912 | Time: 00:56:51

A switch back to Atlantic finds Jean-Luc Ponty continuing to dabble in West African waters while re-establishing his earlier solid base in repeating sequenced patterns. The electronics are back, for Ponty splits his time between the electric violin and various synthesizers and sequencers while Abdou M'Boup and Sydney Thiam add African percussion, which often takes a back seat to the electronics as the rhythmic basis for the music. This time, though, the material Ponty has composed isn't as compelling as it had been in the past; at times, Ponty sounds like he is very competently treading water (though "Blue Mambo" has a compelling groove). Yet despite all of the changes Ponty has put himself through, his music still has a Continental elegance that cannot be mistaken for that of anyone else.
Karina Gauvin, Luc Beausejour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)

Karina Gauvin, Luc Beauséjour, Sergei Istomin - Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 66:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # 22012 | Recorded: 1995

The Notenbuchlein (or “Little Music Book”) for Anna Magdalena Bach is one of the most affectionate and tangible means by which we can glimpse an aspect of the Bach family ‘off duty’, so-to-speak. Bach began this anthology devoted mainly to the keyboard for his second wife in 1722, having three years earlier done the same for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Musically speaking, the most important contents are five suites which, with some additional material and a sixth suite, were to become the French Suites (BWV812-7). But it is the remaining pieces which convey such warm intimacy to us, looking, as it were, through the window.

Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger (1978)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Sept. 6, 2021
Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger (1978)

Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger (1978)
Vinyl Rip | 32-bit/384 kHz | WavPack(Tracks) > 3.27 Gb | Artwork(jpg) < 1 Mb
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 1.36 Gb
or 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Flac(Image + Cue) > 427 Mb
Atlantic, SD 19189 | US | Jazz Rock, Prog Rock, Fusion

Cosmic Messenger is more elegant, European-flavored jazz-rock from the French virtuoso Jean-Luc Ponty, and pretty much in the same mold as his previous Atlantic albums but with gradually tightening control over every parameter of performance…