Jean-Luc Ponty News

The Christmas Jazz festival is now in its 14th outing. The festival actually got started by chance when the world-famous Danish bassist, Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen, who was too busy to come to the annual Jazzkaar Festival in the spring, agreed to come to Estonia in December 1996 instead together with a Danish TV crew.

Mack Avenue Records Commissioned by the Detroit International Jazz Festival and premiered on the occasion of the composer's 91st birthday, Gerald Wilson's six-movement "Detroit Suite" demonstrates that after nearly seven decades in the music business, the nonagenarian composer and arranger still has a great deal to offer in terms of musical ...

On Saturday, Detroit's The Deadstring Brothers top the bill at The Green Lantern.

Jean-Luc Ponty was educated in classical music and said his dream as a teenager was to become a conductor, but then he discovered jazz in the early 1960s.

LEXINGTON, Ky. It has been a long, fascinating odyssey for Jean-Luc Ponty, who started out as a straight jazz violinist only to become a pioneer of the electric violin in jazz-rock. Jean-Luc Ponty and His Band bring their sound to the Bluegrass at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

Jazz violinist Jean Luc Ponty was one of the first to digitize jazz, employing an electric violin and using digital and analog sound effects.

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 Note to play jazz until 4 a.m. Images Warned he'd be fired if he kept showing up late to the 9 a.m. orchestral rehearsal, Ponty bid adieu to classical ...

Six years down the road from producing his first McDowell Mountain Music Festival, founder John Largay is looking to keep the spirit of community he feels that festival has nurtured alive all year round at the Valley's newest music and dining venue, the Compound Grill.

Jean Luc Ponty first came to the attention of Americans with his modern re-imaging of the violin as a jazz instrument.

Actor Steve Forrest is 85. Actress Anita Ekberg is 78. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 74.

In 2007, he won the first prize of the "Trophes du Sunside", one of the most important Award for a young jazz musician in France.

Jazz pianist and guitarist inspired by Jean Luc Ponty and Chick Corea adds his own soulful sound to the Jazz/Rock genre mixing R&B and Intense Jazz.

Jazz pianist and guitarist inspired by Jean Luc Ponty and Chick Corea adds his own soulful sound to the Jazz/Rock genre mixing R&B and Intense Jazz.

Jazz fusion Steve Smith & Vital Information The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave.

George Duke showed a great deal of promise early in his career as a jazz pianist and keyboardist, but has forsaken that form to be a pop producer.

Bars and Clubs , Live Shows , Local music , Music , Music News June 02, 2009 West Palm Beach-born guitarist Scott Henderson moved to Los Angeles in 1980 - and he's only looked back when he's come home to visit.

Forget that stuff on the radio; this is real, gritty funk. The pianist, synthesizer player and singer-songwriter George Duke was a formidable and seminal figure in rock-jazz fusion in the late 1960s, playing with Jean-Luc Ponty, and performing and recording classic albums with Frank Zappa.