Jean-Luc Ponty is a French jazz and jazz fusion violinist and composer.
Jean-Luc Ponty at the Nice Jazz Festival in 2008
Jean-Luc Ponty at Berkeley Jazz Festival 1982
Jazz fusion is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll.
Trumpet player Miles Davis was a key figure in the development of fusion
Guitarist Larry Coryell
John McLaughlin performs during his Mahavishnu Orchestra period
Spyro Gyra combines jazz with R&B, funk and pop.