Jean-Luc Ponty
France
Born: 29 September 1942
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, Avant-Garde
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Fusion, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Modern Composition
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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 with electric guitarists and keyboardists, like Echoplex machines, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals. Classically trained, with an unq...
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