Life Enigma

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Life Enigma
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Studio album by
Jean-Luc Ponty
ReleasedAugust 21, 2001
Genre Jazz fusion
Label JLP
Producer Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty chronology
The Very Best of Jean-Luc Ponty
(2000)		Life Enigma
(2001)		 The Best of Jean-Luc Ponty
(2002)

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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Critical reception

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Todd Jenkins stated in All About Jazz that "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." [2] Glenn Astarita stated that "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." [3] Ken Dryden in AllMusic proclaimed, "This is easily one of Jean-Luc Ponty's most compelling releases." [1]

Track listing

All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty.

  1. "Two Thousand-One Years Ago" – 4:20
  2. "Signals from Planet Earth" – 6:03
  3. "The Infinite Human Caravan" – 6:37
  4. "Lonely Among All" – 4:25
  5. "Firmament" – 7:22
  6. "Pizzy Cat" – 3:16
  7. "Life Enigma" – 5:56
  8. "Even the Sun Will Die" – 5:37
  9. "Love at Last Sight" – 5:15
  10. "And Life Goes On" – 6:01

Personnel

Production notes

References

  1. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Life Enigma at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Jenkins, Todd S. (1 September 2001). "Jean-Luc Ponty: Life Enigma". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Arista, Glenn (1 September 2001). "Jean-Luc Ponty: Life Enigma". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
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