Jean-Luc Ponty

...322 N. Alfred St., Alexandria. A listing in today's Weekend section, which was printed in advance, includes information on a Jean-Luc Ponty concert Nov. 20 at the Barns at Wolf Trap. That concert has sold out. A Nov. 12 Metro article on...

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Initially, though, Ponty didn't approach jazz through the violin, but by playing clarinet. His father taught him to play the instrument. His mother instructed him on piano. "There was a band of non- professional musicians at a university...

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...into all these devices and come up with sounds that no violinist had ever done before," Ponty says. "It also stimulated my imagination. I wrote some pieces that I never would've written without them." But as much as he loved the energy...

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...people like it. " Few violinists of the past 50 years have created music as alternately brilliant and frustrating as that of Jean-Luc Ponty, who performs tonight at downtown's all-ages Anthology (anthologysd.com). The French-bred...

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...R&B, funk, jazz and rock musician and as an accomplished composer and producer. He has worked with an array of artists, including: Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Dianne Reeves, George Clinton, Anita Baker, Miles...

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...both beautiful and refreshing exhibiting his superb mastery of the modern American Jazz music that is rarely seen among his peers. " - Jean-Luc Ponty "While Tolling is skilled at evoking a beautiful melody, he's equally adept at filling...

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...jams on the Oops EP, the Polyfolk Dance EP-- the latter named after a track by prog-rock violinist Jean-Luc Ponty-- and various singles and remixes, he's helped position his LuckyMe crew and the Wireblock label at the forefront of a multi-city...

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...Bonynge is 79. Actress Anita Ekberg is 78. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 74. Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is 73. Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 67. Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland, is 66. Actress Patricia Hodge is 63. TV...

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...with trombonist Hal Crook and violin with Matt Glaser. It wasn't long before word of a brilliant new player traveled west, courtesy of Jean-Luc Ponty. Tolling had taken a few master classes with the pioneering electric violinist, and...

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The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio is a Jazz album released in 1969 (see 1969 in music) by Jean-Luc Ponty on World Pacific Jazz in the US, and is considered to be one of the earliest fusion jazz albums. This was the...

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