Jean-Luc Ponty

This is precisely why I peruse "Music" threads here. It sends me running to parts of my collection that have sat idle far too long. When one can allow music of this quality to slowly migrate to the nether regions of the repertoire, the collection is just too damn big! Thank you for mentioning Jean Luc-Ponty.

Incantations For World Peace was the song that introduced me to JLP. Modern Time Blues is one of my "open the moonroof and turn it up" songs.

I picked up a vinyl copy of Aurora in mint shape for three bucks the other week @ a thrift shop.

He's obviously got prodigious skills, (too bad he's sometimes chosen to go for a very low common denominator and to put out cheese whiz). His Plays the music of FZ recording provided him w/ a level of compositional meat that he's never been able to develop on his own, (to be fair writing like that puts the bar pretty dang high). His Sunday Walk record also seems a lot more like the real thing than a lot of his later releases.