The message from Frank Swarbrick rises higher:
 FS> On 09-25-96  18:51, shipwrecked and comatose, Clark Ray said:
 CR> The message from Frank Swarbrick rises higher:
 GS> French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is also outstanding.  Just
 GS> about any of his older releases from about 1978 to 1990 or thereabouts
 GS> is worth owning.  I actually prefer his compositional skill to his
 GS> playing skill, but he is VERY precise!
 FS> I have _Imaginary Voyage_.  Not great, but decent.  Every notice how
 FS> the first part of the title track sounds a lot like UK?
 CR> I'll venture to say that you'd care more for _Enigmatic Ocean_.  I do,
 CR> and seeing as how are tastes are similar...
 FS> I shall try it, then.  He played with the Mahavishnu Orchestra at some
 FS> point, didn't he?
Yes he did, but I don't know the exact era.
 FS> Have you heard any of those albums?  I've been
 FS> meaning to get one or two (I have only _The Inner Mounting Flame_ now
 FS> (no Ponty)), but haven't gotten around to it.
Definitely get _Visions of the Emerald Beyond_.  Ponty is on that one
and is unbelievable.  That album's also got some of my favorite
drumming.  There are both heavy and lighter moments on the album and
many different styles.
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