The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio
The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio
表演者: Jean-Luc Ponty/George Duke Trio
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1969
唱片数: 1
出版者: World Pacific Jazz
条形码: 0099923423324
专辑简介
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
Musicians
- Jean-Luc Ponty / Electric violin
- George Duke / Electric Piano
- John Heard / Bass
- Dick Berk / Drums
* Dick Bock - Producer
* David Brand - Engineer
* L'Goeque - Cover and Sleeve Illustration
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.
"People both in and out of the industry keep trying to put labels and categories to the new, fresh types of music. All music according to them, must fit into a certain mold and stay there. No cross-pollination allowed! Well, such a mixture occurred last Monday night at Thee Experience and it couldn't have been more successful. World Pacific Records, in a calculated risk, decided to book Jean-Luc Ponty, the contemporary king of jazz violin, into a rock club among rock acts and see what kind of audience reaction he'd receive. Would you believe... standing ovations?
Ponty, looking all the part of a young French choirboy with violin in hand, was a visual contradiction in himself. Quite ably backed by the George Duke Trio, Ponty used his violin like a guitar, eliciting bursts of staccato that quickly blended into crescendos of controlled feedback...then into softer, more delicate things. The Trio, led by pianist George Duke, were extremely exciting (playing double-time most of the evening) and went a long way in contradicting the death of jazz. They (the audience) didn't look at Ponty's music as jazz or jazz-rock or any other force-fed label; it had a good beat, was unusual and exciting, and was done with taste. That's all that mattered. It's significant to note that Thee Experience, unlike most other rock clubs, has an audience made up mostly of musicians. Hence, the ovations Ponty received were doubly-justified. The set closed with Frank Zappa on guitar. It was avante-garde to say the least. - Pete Senoff (as reviewed in Cash Box, September 27, 1969)
"Leadership in the musical (and political) liberation movement cannot long be entrusted to incompetents or those of selfish limited goals. When bright young talents like Ponty and Duke get together they utilize all their abilities to collectively create joint expression. The jazz musician who stops changing, whose style becomes stagnant through docile public acceptance, or personal complacency, ceases being worthy of the identification "jazz" or "artist."
Jean-Luc Ponty, "...from the first notes, the first chords, I knew that playing with such musicians as George Duke would be a great experience." Ponty was reflecting on that period in the spring of 1969 when he and Duke joined forces for a couple of weeks of California musical dreaming. George Duke, "When we started playing at Donte's neither of us had heard the other, yet we got so excited with each other's playing we didn't want to stop. It was a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. Jen-Luc heard things in my playing that inspired him and often I wanted to simply lay back completely and just listen to the violin wail." Like the creative life itself, and like artists themselves, the music on this LP grows inwardly and outwardly with repeated exposure. - Philip Elwood San Francisco jazz historian, writer, and broadcaster
曲目
1. "Foosh" (George Duke) – 8:48
2. "Pamukkale" (Wolfgang Dauner) – 6:15
3. "Contact" (Jean-Luc Ponty) – 7:03
4. "Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:20
5. "Starlight, Starbright" (Jean-Bernard Eisinger) – 9:00
Total Time: 39:26