Jean-Luc Ponty - Sunday Walk (1967)(Hi-Res)

Artist: Jean-Luc Ponty
Title Of Album: Sunday Walk
Year Of Release: 1967
Label (Catalog#) :MPS
Country:: France
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: 24bit / 88kHz
Time: 38:24
Full Size: 752Mb(+3%)
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Legendary drummer Kenny Clarke compared Jean-Luc Ponty to Dizzy Gillespie. Fellow violinist Stuff Smith marveled, “He plays violin like Coltrane plays saxophone.” Born in 1942, the French violinist transported jazz violin playing into the world of modern jazz. On Frank Zappa’s urging, Ponty moved to the States in 1970. Over the next years he toured with Zappa, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Chick Corea’s “Return to Forever”. On the 1967 Sunday Walk the band saunters through two blues, a waltz, and a standard before reaching Suite for Claudia which begins at a blistering pace with Ponty’s saxophone-like “brilliance and fire” playing. It then settles into a medium swing groove with Wolfgang Dauner’s infectious piano play followed by a smoldering Ponty. Daniel Humair’s crisp drum solo segues into a heart-felt waltz. After all, this was written for Ponty’s wife. Ponty is here with a group of Europe’s finest at their youthful best. The way they play, it’s all a walk in the park.

Tracks:
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1. Sunday Walk (6:28)
2. Carole's Garden (7:42)
3. Cat Coach (6:00)
4. You've Changed (8:24)
5. Suite for Claudia (9:50)

Personnel:
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Jean-Luc Ponty / violin
Wolfgang Dauner / piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen / bass
Daniel Humair / drums

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