Jean-Luc Ponty - A Taste For Passion (1979)

01. Stay With Me
02. Sunset Drive
03. Dreamy Eyes
04. Beach Girl
05. Taste For Passion, A
06. Life Cycles
07. Reminiscence
08. Give Us A Chance
09. Obesession
10. Farewell

    Jean-Luc Ponty – 5-string electric violin, violin, piano, keyboards
    Ralphe Armstrong – fretless bass
    Joaquin Lievano – guitar, guitar synth
    Jamie Glaser – guitar
    Casey Scheuerell – drums, percussion
    Allan Zavod – keyboards, synthesizer

Despite the title, this release is more subdued than its predecessors on the shelves, more tightly controlled, more conventional in instrumentation. Jean-Luc Ponty temporarily pulls back on electronic display for its own sake, even permitting some acoustic instruments to take the fore, and the recorded sound is drier and less lustrous. Nevertheless, Ponty's urbane Euro-sensibility can still be felt strongly in these carefully conceived and "orchestrated" jazz-rock compositions for his six-piece group. "Beach Girl," with its locomotive-driven chorus surrounded by folk-like passages, is the most memorable tune of the lot. If you can overlook the dated timbres of the ARP (a long-defunct company) synthesizers and the flat acoustics that place this music squarely within its decade, this music can still give pleasure to today's CD fans. --Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

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