Track Listing

1. Computer Incantations For World Peace
2. Far From The Beaten Paths
3. In Spirtual Love
4. Eulogy To Oscar Romero
5. Nostalgia
6. Individual Choice
7. In Spite Of All

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76669 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Jean Luc Ponty has been the premier Jazz/Fusion violinist of the past 3 decades. He is one of the few Jazz musicians to have numerous albums make the Billboard charts, 12 of them to be exact. Individual Choice features George Duke, Allen Holdsworth and Randy Jackson.

Customer Reviews

JLP's Masterpiece
This is truly Jean-Luc's masterpiece, for many reasons. First, it's the album where he truly stretched out by exploring many different instruments and textures, not just his violin. Second, every track has a completely different mood, and is in a world of its own, from the happy and upbeat "Far from the Beaten Paths" to the moody, brooding "Nostalgia" and everything in between. The end result is that the album as a whole takes you on an amazing journey. And finally, while JLP's music is instrumental, this album truly speaks. Every song tells a story, a story of strong emotion. And how each listener interprets these stories is left to his or her "individual choice." Wonderful.

Computer Incantations For World Peace
I bought the LP version in 1983 and I still play it in my turntable. Here in Lima, in the TV morning news, you can listen "Computer" as the dollar exchange values appear. Jean Luc makes an excellent violin solo in this song; definitely, the best track in the CD.

A very good change for Ponty.
This album is one of my favorites because I love the synthesizer sounds of the 80's, and this album is full of it. This album was done almost entirely by Ponty himself, who aside from being an awesome violinist is also a distinguished pianist. Only a couple of the songs have other musicians. The opening track, "Computer Incantations for World Peace" is beautiful, and the song "Individual Choice" was made into a music video, making Ponty, along with Herbie Hancock, one of the first jazz musicians to make a music video. Another track, "Nostalgia", is played with Alan Holdsworth. Overall, a great album.