Jean Luc Ponty - Live in Concert - São Paulo 1980

Jean Luc Ponty recorded home from TV broadcast during live transmission of the concert.
This is the very first Jean Luc Ponty tour in Brazil, specifically the first time ever to play live in São Paulo in the classic Quintet formation.
I was lucky to watch him with different versions of the Quintet every time they played in São Paulo (missed only one or 2 tours in different formations).
This was a "life changing event" of my early teen years. I dare to say this is the prime of all Quintet formations, with a very young Rayford Griffin bringing down the house. I saw this genius live a couple of times with Ponty, and also with Stanley Clarke and others.
The concerts were broadcast live on FM radio on the 5th (the night I attended the concert), and on TV on the 6th. The word of mouth was so powerful they had to add extra concert on Sunday last minute, soon after the original concert ended.
The band is just perfect. Just perfect.
Palácio das Conveções do Anhembi
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
December 06th, 1980
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===== SET LIST =====
01. COSMIC MESSENGER
02. DEMAGOMANIA
03. STAY WITH ME
04. A TASTE FOR PASSION
05. FORMS OF LIFE
06. PEACE CRUSADERS
07. MIRAGE
08. EGOCENTRIC MOLECULES
09. BEACH GIRL
===== BONUS =====
Jean Luc Ponty Live in São Paulo, Palace 1986
10. THE ART OF HAPPINESS
11. MIRAGE
_________ The Jean Luc Ponty Quintet __________
JEAN LUC PONTY: violin, electric violin, synthesizer
RANDY JACKSON: bass guitar
CHRIS RHYME: keyboards
JOAQUIN LIEVANO: guitars
RAYFORD GRIFFIN: drums extraordinaire
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[@tomproctor.archive]

When I was 16 I saw these guys in November 1979. It changed my perspective forever.

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

This music is spiritual to me. It reaches into my soul. Thanks to KZbin and Bluetooth. I'm proud to be in the company of those who have commented on this.

[@patcaploe7250]

There's a timeless quality to this music. Thank you all for your beautiful music!

[@ssw77west]

I completely agree about your "timeless music" comment! Perfectly stated!

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

Yes! Timeless is the word. Thanks!

[@robertmoore62]

Been a devoted fan since the latter 70's. Saw his amazing band live in Dallas one year. Turned on many people to his music once they heard jlp. What an impact jlp had on me and to this day I love to hear his works...

[@CarlosGomez-pi1jc]

I follow him since I was a teenager. One of the best artist worldwide!!!

[@nsgobbi]

I’ve been to 5 JLP concerts in BR with distinct lineups, always all-star. After listening to this you felt like you were “vaccinated” against poor music. Thank you Mr Ponty.

[@jjazzlabvideos7397]

This is one of the hidden gems of KZbin!

[@nsgobbi]

Fortunately, no longer it is ! One of top three live concert I ever been in my life. Needless to say that JLP were relatively unknown at that times in Brazil, and after the series of concerts, his fanbase grew exponentially.

[@pkell7315]

@@nsgobbi I have been following JLP since the 70s just incredible.

[@hawkweedofficial2925]

the bassist here....is RANDY JACKSON!! Of AMERICAN IDOL host fame!! (Whoa: I didn't realize EITHER Steve Smith or Randy J played with JLP! Smith LEFT this band to join JOURNEY..... in 1978.......and Randy JOINED JOURNEY like ten years later!) SMALL WORLD!

[@gideonartajo9666]

Tnx so much for this video by JLPonty,for a long time I've just listened to their music..until today where I can see these great musicians performance...tnx a million 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍🎖️🎖️🎖️🎖️🎖️🏅🏅🏅🏅🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

A lot more to come ... and I mean it. Some stuff is still in VHS, so those might take longer.

[@spikespa5208]

Fantastic to see them playing the music that introduced me to JLP. "Cosmic Messenger" was a revelation for a 24 yr old rocker.

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

When I pass on, I wish to have "Forms Of Life " played at my service.

[@edgarcontreras6818]

Mind’s trip to heaven of music. JLP the best!

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

AMEN!

[@eduardoferreira1963]

Eu tinha um k7 desse show Sensacional. Acho que passou na tv cultura. Foi um show histórico!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Melhor banda dele. Tecladista sensacional. Randy Jackson sem palavras! Rayford.... fenômeno

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Passou sim, ao vivo na rádio cultura FM no sábado e na TV Cultura o primeiro show de domingo. Meses depois fizeram esse especial de uma hora do show que eles transmitiram. O do radio tenho até hoje, transcrevi do K7 que gravei para CD e ouço razoavelmente ainda. O som da Cultura FM era sensacional. Considero essa a melhor banda dele sob diversos critérios. Gostava muito porque parecia uma banda fixa mesmo, gravavam e faziam shows com raríssimas mudanças. Sou viciadaço no JLP, tenho LP desde os anos 60 em dolaboraçōes das mais inesperadas possíveis. Depois dessa fase favorita mais ou menos até os trabalhos com Scott Henderson confesso que deixei de lado. Aliás quando ele tocou no Palace em 86 com Scott Henderson, o tecladista era o Brazuka Walter Afanassief. Ele è produtor, arranjador e co-compositor de alguns discos da Mariah Carey. Não sei se os primeiros, mas foi quase uma década de colaboração e fase de mais sucesso dela. Hoje eles têm sangue ruim entre eles. Ela não coloca ele em nenhuma autoria e fala dele com desdém. Curiosidade pois vi um documentàrio sobre ele um tempo atrás quando estava buscando mais informaçöes daquela formação. Griffin foi ao Brasil com o Ponty duas vezes, quase dez anos à parte. Entre elas ele foi com o Stanley Clarke no Projeto SP original, acho que foi até a inauguração do Circo que durou pouquíssimo.

[@modestonogueira8884]

Tamo junto..... !!!!!

[@jimmiegarcia5602]

Thank You for this fantastic concert.!! Have always been a big fan of JLP.! Thanks for bringing your great music to the world Jean Luc.!! Your fans appreciate you and all the great musicians that played with you.!! Thanks guys.!!❤️❤️

[@christtransformers8438]

Rayford Griffin child of the most high God

[@ssw77west]

It's so much appreciated that this is on KZbin! A light to us all this concert is!!

[@FishBait-ug6ek]

AMEN!

[@luisguedes7590]

Tinha 13 anos quando assisti a esse espetáculo transmitido pela TVE do Rio. Foi fundamental para a minha formação musical. Que instrumentista fantástico .

[@josecarlosmottajunior7464]

Mai um aqui igualzinho a vc, só que 3 anos + velho e vi na TV Cultura de SP (qdo era boa).

[@SuperZANIMAL]

EU VI NA BAND

[@nsgobbi]

Super happy those who were rewarded being there that hot night, like me.

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Same here!

[@MadamOst]

That's a beautiful thing that Jean Luc Ponty does.

[@edmagal4254]

Tenho a honra de ter assistido esse show em 1980, eu tinha apenas 16 anos e já era super fã de JLP. Assisti com meu saudoso irmão, único inconveniente foi que acabou tarde o show e tivemos que voltar a pé pra casa, acabou os transportes e não tinha dinheiro para táxi. Mas foi maravilhoso.

[@michaelhochreiter5229]

Eu tive a honra de assistir ao Civilized Evil no TMRJ.

[@francis4291]

The Little Prince of the violin. Beautiful memory of a meeting in 2000. 🎻

[@weevie833]

Listen to this at 75% speed. Mad blunted!

[@mikehunt8997]

I saw JLP at the Palladium in NYC in 1980. Just an amazing show and smoked some excellent stuff. My other friends were on mescaline and were tripping, laughing their brains off as it was so intense.

[@eis904]

I’m on the search for mescaline hehe

[@pabloviolin]

Wow, thanks for uploading this precious material!

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@alonzovillarreal4666]

Rayford killing it

[@christtransformers8438]

Jean-Luc Ponty child of the most high God

[@johncowart2733]

Ha, Z... called out a young Rayford at the time of this concert. Hell all of them were young, maybe he should have said, a younger Rayford, but no matter. I think that Ray always brings down the house when he played w JLP, that's what Jean do, he Rock's the joint. Every concert that I've been to of JLP's was on & popin, even when he equipment failed the one concert, it was still a nice concert, that he made happen. He vibe is always mellow, that's what sets a nice concert, relax & gel too be in the moment. Not a lot of concerts are chilled like that 🖤 so I do appreciate the effort that JLP puts into the whole process 🖤...

[@KIMORID]

Um dos poucos shows que fui na vida. Fui com o amigo Ivani Cabral, quantas saudades querido amigo...

[@j.franknash8989]

This takes me back to an incredible time in my life

[@EdniDevay]

Relíquia... Sensacional esse registro ❤❤

[@dagostinoification]

Magnificent concert !Thank you so much !

[@fernandoperdomomusic]

Awesome!!!

[@rajkumarrajamani4811]

Brilliant....Stay with Me is another league all together !

[@libanorisergio]

Melhor show que eu já assisti. Inesquecível.

[@user-ns7oh3tj8y]

que buena musica en esa epoca hoy tendria que bolver

[@RobertaRomagnolibob]

che bello scoprire queste magnificenze...direte..ma non conoscevi??? No, ma adesso si

[@Davizola91]

Queria ter visto isso ao vivo, mas nasci em 91 hahah.

[@pkell7315]

incredible 👍 👍

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Thanks for the visit

[@wagnerbaldin8651]

Portuguese - O Brasil já foi palco de clássicos como esse show. É uma pena não termos mais apresentações mais como essa por aqui. O Brasil vive em uma decadência cultural sem precedentes. A cultura do lixo tomou conta das televisões e da internet. A música ruim envenena a nova geração de leigos. Ainda bem que temos registros como esse de Jean Luc Ponty para termos ideia do quão estamos atrasados. English - Brazil has already been the stage for classics like this concert. It's a shame that we no longer have performances like this here. Brazil is experiencing an unprecedented cultural decline. The culture of garbage has taken over television and the internet. Bad music is poisoning the new generation of laypeople. Thankfully, we have recordings like this one from Jean Luc Ponty to give us an idea of how far behind we are.

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

:-(

[@muchmusicmcquade]

Supreme

[@chrissnyder6787]

THANK YOU for producing and uploading this... excellent!

[@esterabea3453]

eu fui no show em S. Paulo- Anhembi na Tour de 1988 e foi sensacional! depois tive a sorte de ver Moseigneur Ponty na 1a fileira (Shows Rite of Strings e em Curitiba com a Orquestra Sinfonica do Paraná). E depois em 2013 (ou 14) no pequeno Bourbon Club. Sempre algo fantástico!!! Obrigada por postar!!! ˆ

[@f1tof2]

39:19 The appetizer and the dessert of delightful prog rock dish!

[@BarrySmithviolin]

Thank you Ziegen 🌹

[@thundergrace]

so talented! so good!

[@antor1963]

tive a oportunidade de ir a 2 shows no Rio de Janeiro, um nos anos 80 no Municipal e outro no extinto Miranda na Lagoa em 2017 se nao me engano. Ouço desde 76 ...

[@epilobia1]

lovely guitarist , didn't really hear enough of him on the albums that he recorded with Jean Luc , and it was criminal not having the camera on him for his solo on egocentric molrcules ....

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

You’ve got that right! I was about 5 feet from Bass player (one night before this), Guitar was opposite, I had him in full specter from head to toe. I was intrigued before and marveled after. Great experience.

[@jonaseduardo2001]

Eu estava lá na platéia.(I was there in the audience)

[@forrestlineberry9281]

The guitarist for the 1986 portion of this is Scott Henderson. I don't know who the rest of the musicians are. Unfortunately, the video freezes up on me after Scott's solo in The Art of Happiness. This is the only footage I've seen of Scott playing with Jean Luc Ponty.

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

I saw Ponty's 1986 tour on stage as well. It was not Henderson though. Henderson was a perfect match to JLP

[@fusionfan6883]

@@Ziegen-Sauger Henderson was good, as were all his other guitarists, but Allan Holdsworth was just perfection with JLP.

[@celsogomes8026]

Eu estava neste concerto em 1980 no palacio de convencoes do anhambi.celso gomess. Celso gomes Sao paulo

[@user-ns7oh3tj8y]

tremendo concierto

[@rallypassionbrasil2758]

Excellente JLP!Meu pai tem quase tudo em LP no seu acervo.

[@pablosop]

Un manjar

[@sergiomasucci1732]

Eu tava lá!!!!!

[@modestonogueira8884]

Eu estava lá. .... !!!!!!

[@antoniocorrea7464]

una joya !!!

[@robertdona2816]

I was there...

[@piikeaSanDiego]

"That's pitchy Dawg"

[@ronfrey5327]

21:21 guitar TASTEEEE SOLO sounds like viola amazing players I was wondering who was on guitar great player....

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Joaquim Lievano

[@kingmikol]

Where was this hiding, great stuff.

[@johncowart2733]

Watch out, Randy's has cut loose. He's no Stanley Clark but he'll do. Now when it comes to Rayford, we are on a whole nother level. I think that (no) I know that he's up there w Cobham, no doubt. JLP only plays w the best of the best. I wonder if he's into physics as well as fusion, because he puts lots of energy into his music 🎶 🖤...

[@marioacacio4282]

Grande talento do rock instrumental.

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Instrumental rock?

[@Caliiforniicatiion]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💡👍😎👌🇧🇷

[@wagnerbaldin8651]

At 59:10 the image freeze and at 59:37 the music stops...

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Thank you for reading, much appreciated indeed. Consider this video was recorded with a time-programmed unattended PAL-M VHS player/recorder in 1980. A few flaws are forgiven.

[@wagnerbaldin8651]

@@Ziegen-Sauger Sure, I'm no complain at all. I'm is a marvelous show you provide. Thank you!!

[@fusionfan6883]

Can you reupload as the video freezes from about 55 mins. This is an important video and I would love to see all of it.

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Thank you so so much for watching my channel, really appreciate it!!! The glitch you mention happened during TV Boradcast (TV2 Cultura as far as my memory goes), plus a reused VHS tape, years of storage, container shipment overseas and late conversion at home. This is bybdesign, sorry about that. DC.

[@fusionfan6883]

@@Ziegen-Sauger No worries and thanks for explaining - all us JLP fans appreciate your upload. Whilst I love all JLP and his guitarists, Allan holdsworth was my idol and I pray one day some footage may emerge of the few live dates he did with JLP to support the EO album.

[@martinpartida2269]

I was enjoying this video sooo very much, but then it got stuck around 59 minutes, anyone experience the same problem?

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

So sorry, it was a broadcast issue long long long time ago when I first recorded. Made worse by the long stored VHS, so so sorry

[@martinpartida2269]

@@Ziegen-Sauger Well it was incredibly enjoyable while it lasted. Ive been searching for a video of Jean-Luc Ponty performing live around this time which is my favorite, after the Cosmic Messenger and a A Taste of Passion albums, that to me are his hardest rocking and funkiest albums, which the bass and drums solos in Egocentric Molecules attest to, but I enjoyed it very very much, muito obrigado mi amigo!

[@martinpartida2269]

And the fact that Joaquin Lievano is from Colombia gives us Latin Americans one more reason to be proud of!

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

@@martinpartida2269 I DID NOT KNOW THAT Martin, wow!!!! Lievano was on top of my favorites in the Fusion scene by the end of the 70's. Fine, elegant, precise. You made my day.

[@martinpartida2269]

@@Ziegen-Sauger Thank you sir!

[@marcelocastro5037]

Que pena uma Maravilha dessa com uma imagem tão ruim.

[@propylaen2001]

Ziegen, do you have the FM broadcast from the show you attended? I'd love to hear it.

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

Yes, I do have it. It is the full uncut concert.

[@propylaen2001]

@@Ziegen-Sauger, I have sent you a mail to the address found on your blog.

[@christopherfreud5894]

Hi does anybody know what synth is played by JLP when he doesn’t play the violin ?

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

ARP Odyssey in that era, dont know specific model

[@christopherfreud5894]

@@Ziegen-Sauger ARP Odyssey is the one played by C Rhyne, I talk about the one just next to JLP on his left side

[@Ziegen-Sauger]

​ @Christopher Freud JLP played ARP Odyssey 1, the large, wide workstation. But you are right, he started to take this on stage starting 84, likely this one is either an earlier model or something I am not aware. If you noticed, I was in first row, 3 meters from Jackson, it means I could only take pictures of the front of JLP keys

[@dr.ivanfilho1485]

Arp avatar, Arp odyssey, Arp omni arp 2600..... eram os que utilizava nos disco. Comprei este disco, A Taste for passion, em 1984, quando já estava colecionando jean luc ponty. Comecei a ouvir em 1979, com 11 anos. Vi este show na televisão. Eu era muleke e graças a Deus fui influenciado e influenciei vários amigos a ouvirem boas músicas. Este show foi também do disco civilised evil. Depois Também comprei este Acho que devo ter uns 30 discos dele Puro ouro!!!!!! Os músicos participam das gravações Só cobra criada!!! 😂

[@henriquen2536]

Alguém poderia disponibilizar o k7 desse show?

[@shirleyholifield8182]

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