Natural inside Avranches, France, he was trained as a professional authoritative fiddler at a Paris Conservatory. His attraction to jazz was propelled by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's music.

He has worked by having Stéphane Grappelli, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Frank Zappa, and has appeared in assibilate 70 recordings.

Around 1977 he pioneered a utilise of the Five-string electric violin, with the moo 100 string. He periodically as well utilizes a 6-string electrical fiddle known as the Violectra, sustaining moo C & F strings – does'nt to exist as confused with a violectra he played from either a late 1960s to the mid-80s which experienced Foursome strings, however tuned an octave moo. Ponty was among a 1st to combine a fiddle by using MIDI, distortion boxes, phase shifters, and wah-wah pedals. This resulted around his signature, all but synthesizer-like healthy.

Selected discography
Jazz hanker swimming (1964) Fiddle Summit (1966) Sunday Hike (1967) Cantaloupe Island (1967) Jean-Luc Ponty Own experience (1969) Upon a Wings of Music (1975) Aurora (1976) Imagined Voyage (1976) Enigmatic Ocean (1977) Cosmic Courier (1978) The Taste for Passion (1979) Civilised Evil (1980) Orphic Dangerous undertaking (1982) Single Guide (1983) Open Mind (1984) Fables (1985) A Gift of Period (1987) Storytelling (1989) Tchokola (1991) There is no Absolute Period (1993) Le Voyage (1996) Survive at Chene Park (1997) A Super Right of Jean-Luc Ponty (2000) Life Enigma (2001) A Right of Jean-Luc Ponty (2002) Survive at Semper Opera (2002) Together (2003) (CD & DVD versions)