Jazz A Chateauvalion – 1972
Jean-Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke and Tony Williams
A half-hour with a unique trio
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The early 1970s found a large assortment of brilliant players exploring new music that straddled the boundaries between jazz and rock including violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, bassist Stanley Clarke, and drummer Tony Williams.
The three musicians came from different musical worlds with Ponty working with Frank Zappa and touring with his own fusion band, Clarke gaining fame with Return To Forever, and Williams leading Lifetime after leaving Miles Davis.
Ponty and Williams never recorded together, it was not until 1993 that Ponty and Clarke met up in a recording studio andm while Clarke and Williams were with Stan Getz in 1972, they only met up a handful of times including on two records by the drummer from 1974 and 1995.
The three virtuosos sound quite comfortable during this live and purely acoustic performance from 1972, performing the folkish “Open Strings” (which has Ponty and Clarke playing percussively), Williams taking a lengthy drum solo on “Me,” and the violinist in top form on “Tequila.”
-Scott Yanow
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