Jimmy Ponder

Jimmy "Fats" Ponder (* 10. May 1946 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; † 16th September 2013 ) was an American jazz - guitarist .

Live and act

Ponder began playing guitar at the age of 14 and was initially heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell . At the age of 17 he played with Charles Earland ; in the following years in the soul jazz bands of Lou Donaldson , Houston Person , Donald Byrd , Stanley Turrentine and Jimmy McGriff . He moved to Philadelphia and in the 1970s to New York City , where he recorded a number of albums under his own name, starting with the 1969 album Soul Crib , on which Charles Earland also participated. In 1976/77 he also recorded two albums for the Impulse label ! on, Illusions and White Room . He was successful with his album All Things Beautiful , which he recorded in 1978 for Muse Records; it reached # 98 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart . His album Ain't Misbehavin , recorded for High Note with Don Braden and John Hicks in 2000 , hit # 16 on the jazz charts. Ponder died in September 2013 of complications from lung cancer .

Discographic notes

• So Many Stars ( Milestone Records , 1983)
• Mean Streets: No Bridges ( Muse Records , 1987)
• Jump (Muse, 1988)
• To Reach a Dream (Muse, 1991)
• Thumbs Up (HighNote, 2001)
• Alone (HighNote, 2003)
• What's New (HighNote, 2005)
• Tanning bed Flavor (LRC, 2007)

swell

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jimmy Ponder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jimmy Ponder at Allmusic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ death notice in Organissimo
2. ↑ Fretboard Journal ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 18, 2013)