Jazz violinist Mads Tolling (Stanley Clarke Band - Turtle Island String Quartet) will be performing with his band at Yoshi's in San Francisco, California on May 21, 2012 at 8 PM, for the release of his new album called "Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty - Live at Yoshi's" which contains great arrangements by Mads of JLP's music recorded live at Yoshi's in Oakland in 2011.

Special event "50 years of innovating jazz" at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on April 11, 2012. JLP performs his compositions among which 4 world premieres with the Pasdeloup symphony orchestra conducted by Vincent Renaud with William Lecomte on keyboards, then JLP invites Stanley Clarke (double bass) Bireli Lagrene (acoustic guitar) Daniel Humair (drums) Eddy Louiss (organ) . Tickets on sale at www.chatelet-theatre.com or by tel. at +33 1 40 28 28 40

2011 has been a great year for JLP. He has received the Jazz Legend Award from the Mayor at the end of his performance with his band at the Jazz Festival in Cork, Ireland. Altogether JLP has performed 88 concerts, 75 of which with "Return To Forever IV" (36 in the USA - 21 in Europe - 6 in Australia - 6 in Japan - 2 in South Korea - 1 in Israel). The November tour in South America with the "Atlantic Years Band" was also a big highlight. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!