Few would debate violinist Jean Luc Ponty’s pioneering ways within the early 70s fusion movement, whereas the artist did introduce a novel approach to melding the violin with the jazz vernacular.

It was at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994 that Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke played as a trio for the first time. Clarke and Di Meola had been part of Return to Forever and while ...

Guitarist Al di Meola violinist JeanLuc Ponty and bassist Stanley Clarke all of whom recorded numerous albums as leaders during the 1970s and 1980s join forces for this 1994 concert in Montreux Each ...