Moderator, don't give away the contents of the new Batman box office blockbuster just yet, ok?
Moving swiftly on to Jean-Luc Ponty: I am now equipped with a double CD Rhino compilation of his seventies and eighties work (with Ralphe on many tracks) and have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. Not so much jazzish than progish, some of it could be early Kansas backing tracks (or Kansas took influence from Jean-Luc ...). Very melodic songwriting, none of that "seventies-fusion-show-your-chops!" going on. And while the music is melodically and harmonically very accessible to someone with not much of a jazz-trained ear (like me), it never descends into Kenny G. elevator muzak.
Thanks for infecting me, John!
Uwe