Cosmic Messenger (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Violin
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: July 7, 1987
• Label: Rhino Records (USA)
• UPC: 075678155024
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106702051
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #33109 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2323 in Jazz (See Top 100 Jazz Bestsellers)
• #14 in Violin (See Top 100 Violin Bestsellers)

Personnel: Jean-Luc Ponty (acoustic & electric violins, organ, synthesizer); Allan Zavod (piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer); Peter Maunu (acoustic & electric guitars, synthesizer); Joaquin Lievano (acoustic & electric guitars); Ralphe Armstrong (electric bass); Casey Scheuerell (drums, percussion).

Recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood and Chateau Recorders, North Hollywood, California.

COSMIC MESSENGER is certainly more "cosmic" than Ponty's previous releases, thanks to the violinist's more pronounced use of synthesizer and the enlisting of Allan Zavod as his main keyboardist. The album finds Ponty exacting the energized fundamentals of rock while simultaneously fleshing out his already expanding sound palette.

With exuberant, atmospheric violin etchings and exciting runs of drums and bass underpinning Zavod's guitar thrusts, "Don't Let the World Pass You By" summarizes the Ponty songbook. Released at the end of the '70s and executed with a sophisticated degree of polish and poise, COSMIC MESSENGER moves along with the inertia of a locomotive. The album remains a sparkling gem in Ponty's crown.

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