Aurora (Jean-Luc Ponty album)

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Aurora
Aurora Jean Luc Ponty.jpg
Studio album by
Jean-Luc Ponty
ReleasedFebruary 26, 1976
RecordedDecember 1975
Studio Cherokee (Los Angeles, California)
Genre Jazz fusion
Length37:28
Label Atlantic
Producer Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty chronology
Upon the Wings of Music
(1975)		Aurora
(1976)		 Imaginary Voyage
(1976)
Professional ratings
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Aurora is a studio album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1976. It features guitarist Daryl Stuermer (later to join Genesis), keyboardist Patrice Rushen, bassist Tom Fowler (with whom Ponty had played with Frank Zappa), and drummer Norman Fearrington. It was reissued on audio cassette in 1990 and on CD in 1992. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Jean-Luc Ponty.

  1. "Is Once Enough?" – 4:58
  2. "Renaissance" – 5:48
  3. "Aurora, Pt. 1" – 2:46
  4. "Aurora, Pt. 2" – 6:15
  5. "Passenger of the Dark" – 4:17
  6. "Lost Forest" – 5:27
  7. "Between You and Me" – 5:58
  8. "Waking Dream" – 2:25

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1976)Peak
position
Billboard Jazz Albums14
Billboard Pop Albums123

References

  1. 1 2 Jean-Luc Ponty - Aurora (1976) by Scott Yanow
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 163. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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