| Life Enigma | ||||
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| Released | August 21, 2001 | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Label | JLP | |||
| Producer | Jean-Luc Ponty | |||
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Life Enigma is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 2001. It is his first on his own label, JLP and arrives seven years since his last solo studio release No Absolute Time (1993).
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz | (favorable) [1] |
| All About Jazz | (favorable) [2] |
| AllMusic |   |
Todd Jenkins stated in his All About Jazz review: "...Ponty shows he’s up to the task of carrying the spirit of fusion into the new millennium instead of just mining the same old spent lodes. Though it was a while in coming, Life Enigma was worth every minute of the wait." [1] Glenn Astarita states "...if you're expecting some of the innovative pyrotechnics and high-octane jazz-fusion witnessed on some of his previous sessions you might be disappointed." [2] while Ken Dryden in AllMusic proclaimed that "This is easily one of Jean-Luc Ponty's most compelling releases." [3]
All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty.
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