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French violinist and composer Jean-Luc Ponty has collaborated with a number of virtuosic and complex American music makers. He’s played with Frank Zappa, Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke and Chick Corea.

Jean-Luc Ponty is far from a traditional violinist. He grew up performing classical music and jazz, then went on to pioneer jazz-rock fusion during stints with Frank Zappa and the Mahavishnu Orchestra ...

Jazz is an art form that has been a singular hothouse of musical talent over the decades. There are, and have been, lots of not just great but brilliant players. But perhaps not unsurprisingly, there ...

The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue ...

Prog-rock and fusion share a common bedrock as offshoots of genres—in this case rock and jazz respectively—that have created and sustained a rabid fan base while enduring the often dismissive scorn of ...

It would seem almost demeaning to refer to the career of perhaps the most influential jazz violinist of his generation as accidental. But the word that landmark French instrumentalist Jean-Luc Ponty ...

While he continues his six-year (and counting) journey to complete the upcoming sequel to his 1976 debut album, former Yes vocalist Jon Anderson is already on to his next project: A new band with ...

French fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is to have his 2001 album Life Enigma released on vinyl for the very first time. The new vinyl edition will be reissued on the MPS/Edel label on May 17, along ...

Jon Anderson parted ways with Yes in 2008, when health concerns kept him from committing to a tour. But he has remained incredibly active over the intervening six years, juggling an endless variety of ...

The Danish-born violinist Mads Tolling is a peripatetic creative presence on the Bay Area music scene, turning up one night as a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, and showing up later with his own ...

Neither Jon Anderson nor Jean-Luc Ponty need an introduction to fans of progressive rock. Anderson was the voice of Yes for decades, and violinist Ponty made his name with everyone from Mahavishnu ...