Jean-Luc Ponty Experience: Open Strings – review

(Promising Music)Joachim Kuhn also appears on this reissue of an unexpectedly freewheeling 1972/3 session from French violin star Jean-Luc Ponty. At that point, Ponty was yet to move to the States, work with Frank Zappa and the Mahavishnu Orchestra and commit himself to jazz-rock fusion. This music is powerfully influenced by John Coltrane, whose sax marathons Ponty often seems to emulate on violin. This formidable ensemble (Philip Catherine is on guitar, Peter Warren is on bass and George Duk...

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