JEAN-LUC PONTY – Touring History 1969-1978 (5CD)

Soundboard 9.4 & Audience 8.6 – the first few discs are excellent soundboard which is cool because they are very early performances and there’s a lot to dive into there. The next couple of discs are good audience tapes, the first being a bit towards the back of a medium sized club, but it’s not bad. Overall it’s an interesting collection, really allows you to contemplate the artists changes over time, with band members, and compositions. Good stuff!

JEAN LUC PONTY
Touring History 1969-1978

Disc 1

Studio 2 WDR
Cologne, Germany
February 17th, 1969

LINEUP:
Jean-Luc Ponty: violin
Wolfgang Dauner: piano
Eberhard Weber: bass
Bernard Lubat: drums

1. -Eighty-one
2. -Starlight, Starbright
3. -Introduction
4. -California
5. -Pamukkale
6. -Introduction JLP in German
7. -Golden Green

Disc 2

Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany
November 9, 1972

1. -Circles – Open Strings
2. -How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That – JLP talks
3. -unknown Title
4. -Flipping

LINEUP:
Jean-Luc Ponty: electric violin
Jasper van’t Hof: keyboards
Henry Texier: bass
Aldo Romano: drums

Disc 3

Evanston, Illinois
April 11, 1975

1. -Waving Memories
2. -Band Intros
3. -Question With No Answer
4. -Bowing Bowing
5. -Fight For Life
6. -Announcer Outro

Jean Luc Ponty: violin
Daryl Stuermer: guitar
Mike Wolf: keyboards
Tom Fowler: bass, violin
Norm Fearrington: drums

McAlister Auditorium
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
October 23, 1977

7. -Tarantula
8. -The Gardens Of Babylon

Disc 4

1. -Overture of the Trans Love Express
2. -The Struggle of the Turtle To The Sea
3. -band introductions
4. -Nostalgic Lady
5. -Wandering On The Milky Way
6. -Mirage

Jean-Luc Ponty: violin
Allan Zavod: keyboards
Daryl Stuermer: guitar
Ralphe Armstrong: bass
Steve Smith: drums

Disc 5

New Orleans Cont’d

1. -Enigmatic Ocean
2. -New Country
3. -Polyfolk Dance

Paramount Theater
Austin, TX
November 15, 1978

4. -Introduction
5. -The Art Of Happiness
6. -Don’t Let The World Pass You By – I Only Feel Good With You
7. -Ethereal Mood – No Strings Attached
8. -Egocentric Molecules – Outro