A Taste for Passion is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty that was released in 1979.

The track "Beach Girl" received a nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance at the 1981 Grammy Awards.

The Globe and Mail wrote that Ponty's "music is well conceived and realized, structurally sound and texturally colorful (Genesis-ish in spots), drawing equally on rock and classical as a backdrop for jazz improvisation.

Mixed at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, California - June & July 1979.

Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City.