Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio

Infobox Album
Name = The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio
Type = Live album
Artist = Jean-Luc Ponty & George Duke


Released = 1969
Recorded = Thee Experience Club
mid-September, 1969
Genre = Fusion Jazz
Length = 39:26
Label = World Pacific Jazz (United States)
Producer = Dick Bock
Engineer = David Brand
Reviews = []

"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 third album of note for George Duke.

History

The "Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio" album was recorded live in Hollywood, California in mid-September, 1969. A number of Jazz musicians were experimenting with the jazz-rock fusion that would become so popular in the 1970s, but Jean-Luc Ponty is one of the earliest to get it down on vinyl. Ponty was inspired by Miles Davis and John Coltrane to explore this new fusion form, and is considered the first significant Jazz musician to record on the electric violin. Later, in the 1970s, he pioneered the use of 5 & 6-string violins and was the first to combine the violin with MIDI, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals.

Back Cover Quotes

"Jean-Luc Ponty is a young marvel and my nomination for Jazz man of the year."-Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times

"Jean-Luc Ponty send electric chills up and down the walls of Thee Experience with a most exciting and personal blending of Rock and Jazz music."-Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Track listing

# "Foosh" (George Duke) – 8:48
# "Pamukkale" (Wolfgang Dauner) – 6:15
# "Contact" (Jean-Luc Ponty) – 7:03
# "Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:20
# "Starlight, Starbright" (Jean-Bernard Eisinger) – 9:00

1993 Reissue CD

One Way Records re-issued this album on CD in 1993.

Credits

* Jean-Luc Ponty - electric violin
* George Duke - electric piano
* John Heard - amplified bass
* Dick Berk - drums

* Dick Bock - Producer
* David Brand - Engineer
* L'Goeque - Cover and Sleeve Illustration

External links

* [http://www.answers.com/topic/the-jean-luc-ponty-with-the-george-duke-trio Answers.com]
* [http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/ponty.jean-luc/discog.txt Jean-Luc Ponty Discography]
* [http://www.georgeduke.com/ Official George Duke site]
* [http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=1107563 Music Match.com Entry]
* [http://www.ponty.com Jean-Luc Ponty Official site]