Adam Ponting

Adam Ponting is a jazz pianist, acoustic bassist, drum programmer, arranger and composer.

Adam grew up on a farm in country NSW, Australia, and started doing jazz gigs at age 12. His first jazz influences were Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Erroll Garner and Martial Solal. In the late 80s he attended the jazz program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, then led by Don Burrows.

1990s: Adam played with the Ghosts of Saturn, a fully improvised jazz-rock quartet featuring Carl Dewhurst. He led a trio with Simon Barker and Ashley Turner. He played and recorded with Neilsen Gough, often with Craig Scott and Alan Turnbull, one of Australia's finest ever rhythm sections. He played with a lot of the great players of the Australian jazz scene - Bernie McGann, Dale Barlow, Alan Turnbull, Craig Scott, Ed Gaston, Jason Morphett, Tim Hopkins, etc.

2000-2010s: Adam played, recorded, toured with Roger Manins' group, and performing his own music with his band Adam's Garden, with Carl Dewhurst, Brendan Clarke and Jamie Cameron. He spent 5 years writing classical orchestral music.

2020s: He has released three albums as the adam ponting trio, playing or programming all instruments, and performing all production roles.

Adam says "I'd never heard a jazz one-person-band album, I didn't know if it was possible. It's been a crash course in drumming - learning drums without playing them is a strange thing! My teachers have been Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Motian, Jimmy Cobb, Brian Blade, Jack deJohnette and others. I've been playing bass since the 90s, inspired mostly by Paul Chambers, Ron Carter and Charlie Haden."

Praise for album 2

"Sounds great as you always do, always did" - Dale Barlow

"Sounding great as always" - Lily Dior

Praise for the adam ponting trio

"This sounds so good!!!"" - Jeremy Borthwick

"Killer" - Daryl Aberhart

"This is incredible...exceptional and unique drum programming and wonderful bass playing" - Cameron Undy

"This is bloody awesome" - Evan Mannell

"This is the most incredible time feel on the piano ever!" - Greg Coffin

"The genius of AP finally gets aired and acknowledged, so great." - Lily Dior

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