All About Jazz is celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty's birthday today! Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undispute master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has ...

American violinist Stuff Smith once said about the young, classically trained and self taught jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, "He plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone." Born in 1942, Ponty has ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

JAZZ French jazz violinist Jean Luc Ponty, a stylistic heir to the brilliance of fellow countryman Stephane Grappelli, has long experimented with electronics and modern presentations of his work. So ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Legendary French violinist Jean Luc Ponty and his band will be bringing their ...

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer. Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught ...