Jean-Luc Ponty

Agent Fred Lawrence dies at 68 08/11/2009

Eddie Jobson's U-Z Project Hitting The Road 07/29/2009

It has been a long, fascinating odyssey for Jean-Luc Ponty, who started out as a straight jazz violinist only to become a pioneer of the electric violin in jazz-rock in the '70s and an inspired manipulator of sequencers and synthesizers in the '80s. At first merely amplifying his violin in order to be heard, he switched over to electric violin and augmented it with devices that were associated ...more