jamesg1213

sharke
Anderson Ponty...
 
Don't tell me, Jean Luc has a son and he also plays violin? 

It's Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty, doing re-workings of Yes material. All very musicianly and technically amazing and all that, but..yawn...

Not quite! There are as many original pieces there as there are YES pieces. But Jon is a "known" entity for his songs. Jean Luc for his playing ... and in this case also composing, albeit I find that the pieces were not quite on par with some of his solo material, probably because he had to soften up around Jon's vocals.
 
The album is very nice, but hardly a top ten for the year.
 
Still very nice. But I would rather watch Return to Forever, WITH Jean Luc ... now that's some serious playing and fun to watch!

Zappa + Jean Luc = sublime.

Personally, I'd opt for something like this...

bapu
Zappa + Jean Luc = sublime.

this +1

one of my favorite (tho truth be told, i could post 15 such solos by this guy)
 

 
 

bapu
Zappa + Jean Luc = sublime.

batsbrew
one of my favorite (tho truth be told, i could post 15 such solos by this guy)
 

 
 

+15

craigb

bapu
Zappa + Jean Luc = sublime.

Frank would love it.

I like Jean Luc Ponty in small quantities. There's only so much violin fusion you can handle. My favorite playing by him is on Burnt Weeny Sandwich and also an album he released of him playing Zappa which I have on vinyl back in England somewhere. It's really great, I think it opens with Idiot Bastard Son.

sharke
 
 
There's only so much violin fusion I can handle. 

corrected as I suspect I can handle more of it than you.