Jean-Luc Ponty - Individual Choice (1983)

Artist: Jean-Luc Ponty
Album: Individual Choice
Label: Atlantic
Release Date: Mar 1983-May 1983
Genre: Jazz, Style: Fusion, Post-Bop, Crossover Jazz
Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
Time: 37:05
Size: 87,5 MB

Tracklisting:
1. Computer Incantations for World Peace (5:41)
2. Far from the Beaten Paths (5:59)
3. In Spiritual Love (7:01)
4. Eulogy to Oscar Romero (2:32)
5. Nostalgia (5:02)
6. Individual Choice (4:56)
7. In Spite of All (5:55)

Total Time: 37:06

Personnel:
Jean-Luc Ponty (violin, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, programming);
Allan Holdsworth (guitar);
George Duke (Mini-moog);
Randy Jackson (bass);
Rayford Griffin (drums).

Principally recorded at The Music Grinder and Cherokee Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California from March to May 1983.

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Review:
Here is Ponty's radical break with his past, one that further tightened his control over his craft while ironically liberating his muse. In laying out his attractive new music on synthesizers and sequencers, emphasizing revolving ostinato patterns, Ponty rejuvenated his melodic gift, and as a result, even in this controlled setting, his violin solos take on a new freshness and exuberance. Except for two tracks, Ponty does without a formal rhythm section — and on two other tracks, he goes it completely alone. Indeed, he does best of all when he has no one but himself to play with on "Computer Incantations for World Peace" and the lovely mood piece "Eulogy to Oscar Romero." Guest interloper George Duke (a fellow refugee from Frank Zappa's band) contributes a Minimoog solo to "In Spiritual Love," where Ponty provides his own percussive backing on rhythm computer. Even if one grumbles on principle about the reduction of spontaneity in Ponty's music over the Atlantic years, the musical end here absolutely justifies the means. Don't miss it.
Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide


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