Movies: Jean-Luc Ponty

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who revele...

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thous...

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featuring interviews with Zappa and backstage scenes from the 1970s and 1980s. The entire film is divided in...

A seventy-six-minute version of Häxan, re-edited and re-released in the United States by Metro Pictures Corporation in 1968. It is narrated by author William S. Burroughs, with a jazz score and soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty....

Guitarist Al di Meola, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, and bassist Stanley Clarke, all of whom recorded numerous albums as leaders during the 1970s and 1980s, join forces for this 1994 concert in Montreux. Each musician's compositions are featured in this ...

This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's extraordinary musical diversity and were also the 2 most commercially successful albums that he released in his ...

Re-release of the original album for its 50th anniversary in surround-sound on Bluray. Contains a new surround-mix in Dolby Atmos, a new 5.1 mix, the original 1973 Quadraphonic mix, as well as the 2012 stereo master. Track list of the Bluray: 01 Cam...

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A wonderful jazz concert with Jean-Luc Ponty on the violin, Bireli Lagrène on the guitar and Kyle Eastwood on the bass. Biréli Lagrène is a regular at the Au Grès du Jazz festival, which takes place in La Petite Pierre, in the Vosges. He has been on ...