The
Anderson Ponty Band is a supergroup team-up featuring jazz-rock violinist
Jean-Luc Ponty and founding
Yes vocalist
Jon Anderson. Although they had known each other casually since the 1970s, it wasn't until 2014 that the prog rock icons decided to work together. Collaborating via the internet,
Ponty would send instrumental tracks to
Anderson who would then add vocals, shaping them into a songs. The process eventually spread to the duo reworking older songs from their careers including some classic
Yes compositions. In 2015, the
Anderson Ponty Band released their debut album, Better Late Than Never, a CD/DVD that showcased their live 2014 concert performance at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado. ~ Matt Collar