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	Jean-Luc Ponty Best of the Pacific Jazz Years Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock Track Listings (11) - Disc #1 Cantaloupe Island Contact Pebble Beach Walk California The Loner Soul Summit Eighty-One Twenty Small Cigars How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That King Kong With A Little Help From My Friends
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CD Details

All Artists: Jean-Luc Ponty
Title: Best of the Pacific Jazz Years
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Blue Note Records
Release Date: 5/8/2001
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock
Styles: Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724353081522

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Member CD Reviews

Bridget S. (Vassar) from PLYMOUTH, IN
Reviewed on 6/10/2009...

The songs on here were taken from:

The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience
More Than Meets the Ear
Electric connection
King Kong

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

CD Reviews

Get a taste of JLP's early years

John R. Carlucci | 09/22/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a nice overview of JLP's material from the late 1960s, when he was starting to give hints of his future direction in jazz-rock fusion. It demonstrates his virtuosity of course (as all his recordings do), but in particular shows how he combines bebop phrasing with very punchy rhythmic motifs and use of pentatonic scales. There are great examples of hard-bop style playing (eg "Pebble Beach Walk" and "With a Little Help From My Friends"). You also get a few tracks from his King Kong album with Zappa, and live performances with George Duke (eg 'Cantaloupe Island', 'Eighty-one') and some tracks with the Gerald Wilson orchestra. Anyway, it's great jazz violin, the type of which is not really present in any contemporary player. Should really be played more on jazz radio stations so people would know what Ponty accomplished before his more well-know fusion work."