Open Mind (2023 Remastered Version) Jean-Luc Ponty

• 1Open Mind (Remastered)08:10
• 2Solitude (Remastered)06:09
• 3Watching Birds (Remastered)05:00
• 4Modern Times Blues (Remastered)07:18
• 5Orbital Encounters (Remastered)05:19
• 6Intuition (Remastered)07:40
• Total Runtime39:36

Info zu Open Mind (2023 Remastered Version)

Open Mind is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1984.

If Ponty's 1983 album Individual Choice was the sketchbook of his decision to take his music in a new direction, Open Mind (1984), released the following year, was a deeper exploration of the emerging world of synthesizers and sequencers and their impact on live and studio performance.

Here, complex rhythmic patterns shift in the background while new sounds appear and disappear on the surface in colorful bursts, and outstanding jazz improvisors create familiar music in new settings.

It's almost an audio version of a kinetic wind sculpture.

Ponty chose to use a Roland rhythm machine instead of faking real drum and percussion sounds and played all the keyboard parts himself in order to further explore the concept he had introduced in Individual Choice.

He additionally asked two longtime friends to solo on various tracks: George Benson, whom JLP had met and played with when they were both 21 years old, and Chick Corea, who excels on two tracks with his Moog synthesizer.

Open Mind has been re-mastered by 2023 Grammy Nominee Christoph Stickeland.

"Ponty embarks on more experiments in the future-is-now world of synthesizers and sequencers, where the painstakingly programmed machines often seem to generate an irresistible momentum of their own. As on Individual Choice, Ponty's melodies are immediately appealing in an almost Continental manner, whether spelled out on violin, violectra, or on the sequenced synths that set up the ostinato underpinning. Ponty has even less help than before -- no more than one or two supporting players on a few tracks. One of them is George Benson, who does his flavorful jazz/funk thing over Ponty's rhythm computer on "Modern Times Blues"; the other is Chick Corea, who appears on two tracks. This is almost as essential as Individual Choice, and in some ways, even more confident and assured." (Richard S. Ginell, AMG)

Jean-Luc Ponty, violin, violectra, piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards, vocals, rhythm programming
George Benson, electric guitar (track 4)
Chick Corea, synthesizer (tracks 1, 3)
Casey Scheuerell, drums, tabla (track 3)
Rayford Griffin, drums, percussion (track 5)

Digitally remastered

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