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Track Listing
1. King Kong
2. Idiot Bastard Son
3. Twenty Small Cigars
4. How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That
5. Music For Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra
6. America Drinks and Goes Home
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Frank Zappa | | Producer: | Richard Bock | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Jean-Luc Ponty (violin); Ian Underwood (conductor, alto & tenor saxophones); Ernie Watts (alto & tenor saxophones); Vincent DeRosa (French horn, descant); Arthur Maebe (French horn, tuben); Johnathan Meyer (flute); Gene Cipriano (oboe, English horn); Donald Christlieb (bassoon); Milton Thomas (viola); Harold Bemko (cello); Gene Estes (vibraphone, percussion); George Duke (piano); Frank Zappa (guitar); Buell Neidlinger, Wilton Felder (bass); Arthur Tripp III, John Guerin (drums).
Industry Reviews
...Jean-Luc Ponty is a French gypsy violinist with an unusually fluid style that is full of wide leaps, unorthodox bowing techniques, and big surprises....a major musical mastermind...
Rolling Stone (08/06/1970)
...Ponty's command of Frank Zappa's quirky polymetric arrangements on KING KONG have aged gracefully....[it] makes us long for the days when we believed a violinist had arrived who could blow modern jazz in tune, and with feeling....
Musician (12/01/1993)
4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - ...[KING KONG is] the extraordinary 1969 album that helped establish Ponty as a versatile and progressive jazz violinist....the violinist twists and turns through straightahead and free jazz, 20th-century classical and rock stylings....
Down Beat (12/01/1993)
...Jean-Luc Ponty is a French gypsy violinist with an unusually fluid style that is full of wide leaps, unorthodox bowing techniques, and big surprises....a major musical mastermind...Down Beat (12/93, p.46) - 4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - ...[KING KONG is] the extraordinary 1969 album that helped establish Ponty as a versatile and progressive jazz violinist....the violinist twists and turns through straightahead and free jazz, 20th-century classical and rock stylings....Musician (12/93, p.93) - ...Ponty's command of Frank Zappa's quirky polymetric arrangements on KING KONG have aged gracefully....[it] makes us long for the days when we believed a violinist had arrived who could blow modern jazz in tune, and with feeling....
Rolling Stone (08/06/1970)
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