History
The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio album was recorded live in Hollywood, California in mid-September, 1969. A number of Jazz musicians were experimenting with the jazz-rock fusion that would become so popular in the 1970s, but Jean-Luc Ponty is one of the earliest to get it down on vinyl. Ponty was inspired by Miles Davis to explore this new fusion form and is considered the first significant jazz musician to record on the electric violin. Later, in the 1970s, he pioneered the use of 5 & 6-string violins and was the first to combine the violin with MIDI, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals.
Back cover quotes
"Jean-Luc Ponty is a young marvel and my nomination for Jazz man of the year."
-Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times
"Jean-Luc Ponty send electric chills up and down the walls of Thee Experience with a most exciting and personal blending of Rock and Jazz music."
-Los Angeles Herald Examiner
