I am happy to announce that I will be conducting a jazz violin master class and interview at the Clazz International Music Festival, which will be held in Tuscany, Italy in July 2023. Details are available at www.clazzmusicfestival.com Phone USA +1 608 295 5717 and info@clazzmusicfestival.

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Jean Luc

My thanks to Mark Riva at imaginezine.com for his great Tribute to my 80th Birthday !

Please check this link https://IMAGINEzine.com/Ponty-80.

Jean-Luc Ponty

“Sphere was 100% created for Jean-Luc Ponty… which I kind of figured to me was one of my first inspirations. When I first started making the track, it probably took me like maybe 10 minutes to decide, OK, this was a Jean-Luc Ponty piece. How would Jean approach it? As soon as I sent it to him, he loved it. It was immediate. It was “yes” immediately. Jean did a hell of a performance and it is an honor to have him on the project.” —Ron Trent

It was a nice surprise when Ron Trent offered me to collaborate on the single “Sphere” from his new album WARM “What do the stars say to you”. I was happy to discover that an artist like him from a younger generation and from a different style of music than mine was interested in my playing and my music. When I listened to the track he had prepared for me, I could hear common musical elements between house music and jazz. “Sphere” has such a great groove but also that special mood which inspired me immediately to play on it. The ultimate goal in music is to express what cannot be expressed with words. Sounds and vibrations can lift your soul to another world and ‘Sphere’ does it for me.” Check it out......... Jean-Luc https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-ron-trent-feat-jean-luc-ponty-sphere/

The album LIVE AT THE BERN JAZZ FESTIVAL which Jean Luc recorded as a duo with German pianist Wolfgang Dauner is now released and available on CD, vinyl and digital formats on various internet platforms https://VA.lnk.to/LiveAtBernFestival

I am preparing the release of a live duo album recorded with pianist Wolfgang Dauner, who passed away in January 2020. We often collaborated in the 60s before I moved to California. I loved his compositions and we played a mix of his and mine. It will be released by MPS Records /Edel Music & Entertainment on February 25, 2022. Also my recent albums Life Enigma, The Atacama Experience and older ones like No Absolute time and more will also be re-issued by MPS in a near future. I recorded several albums for this label in the 60s, such as Sunday Walk which will also be re-issued by MPS in March 2022.  

I also recorded as guest artist along with Jon Anderson on one track with the band Inventioning directed and produced by Michael Lewis, the song is called "Some People". You can find it at https://inventioning.bandcamp.com and also hear it at this YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RjrgNVUreE.