Jean-Luc Ponty is a French violinist, active since the early 1960s and best known for his twelve-album run of jazz-rock titles on Atlantic Records. He began recording as a leader with Jazz Long Playing (1964) and Sunday Walk (1967), establishing a technically precise, rhythmically adventurous style that integrated violin into modern jazz ensembles. His early […]
Narada Michael Walden is an American jazz-funk/soul musician and producer who drummed in the second lineup of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which made the 1974/75 albums Apocalypse and Visions of the Emerald Beyond. In 1976, he played on jazz-rock albums by Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, and Nova. As a solo artist, Walden […]
Jan Hammer is a Czech jazz/rock keyboardist, composer, and producer with a sixty-year musical career. As a teenager, Hammer led a jazz trio and cut his first album, Malma Maliny, in 1968 for MPS. After two years in the US, he joined the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, which made the seminal jazz-rock albums The Inner Mounting […]
