| Upon the Wings of Music | ||||
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| Released | May 25, 1975 | |||
| Recorded | January 1975 | |||
| Studio | Paramount Studios (Hollywood, California) | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 36:38 | |||
| Label | Atlantic Records | |||
| Producer | Jean-Luc Ponty | |||
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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  |
Upon the Wings of Music is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty. It was released in 1975 on Atlantic, his first record for the company.
Jazz fusion is a 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.
Jean-Luc Ponty is a French jazz violinist and composer.
Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Led Zeppelin and Yes.
