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Context
Title track of the 1983 Atlantic album, recorded in Hollywood and produced by Ponty himself. The violinist also plays synthesizers and keyboard bass on it; the album reached #2 on Billboard's jazz chart.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to French jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.