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Cantaloupe Island (album)

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Released
  
1976

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Recorded
  
1969

Producer
  
Dick Bock

Genre
  
Jazz fusion, crossover jazz

Cantaloupe Island (1976)
  
Le Voyage The Jean-Luc Ponty Anthology (1996)

Cantaloupe Island is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty. It was first released in 1976 on Blue Note Records. It combines two previously issued albums: King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa and Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio, both recorded in 1969 for the World Pacific label.

Contents

Reissues

  • Cantaloupe Island was digitally re-mastered and reissued on CD by BGO in 2006.

    • Track listing

    All songs by Frank Zappa unless otherwise noted.

    1. "King Kong" – 4:58
    2. "Idiot Bastard Son" – 4:01
    3. "Twenty Small Cigars" – 5:35
    4. "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That" (Ponty) – 7:18
    5. "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" – 19:25
    6. "America Drinks and Goes Home" – 2:42
    7. "Foosh" (George Duke) – 9:01
    8. "Pamukkale" (Dauner) – 6:33
    9. "Contact" (Ponty) – 7:15
    10. "Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:28
    11. "Starlight, Starbright" (Jean-Bernard Eisinger) – 9:23

    Personnel

  • Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, electric violin, baritone violin
  • Frank Zappa – guitar
  • Art Tripp – drums
  • Ian Underwood – tenor sax
  • Ernie Watts – alto and tenor sax
  • George Duke – piano
  • Gene Estes – percussion, vibraphone
  • Dick Berk – drums
  • Wilton Felder – bass
  • John Guerin – drums
  • John Heard – bass
  • Buell Neidlinger – bass
  • Milton Thomas – viola
  • Vincent DeRosa – French horn, descant
  • Donald Christlieb – bassoon
  • Gene Cipriano – English horn, oboe
  • Arthur Maebe – flugelhorn, French horn, tuben
  • Jonathan Meyer – flute
  • Harold Bemko – cello, electronic sounds

    • References

    Cantaloupe Island (album) Wikipedia
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