Jean-Luc Ponty - Canteloupe Island (1976)

Tracklist

CD1:

1. King Kong (04:54)
2. Idiot Bastard Son (04:00)
3. Twenty Small Cigars (05:35)
4. How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That (07:14)
5. Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra (19:20)
6. America Drinks And Goes Home (02:39)

CD2:

1. Foosh (08:48)
2. Pamukkale (06:15)
3. Contact (07:03)
4. Canteloupe Island (08:20)
5. Starlight, Starbright (09:00)

personnel :

Arranged By – Frank Zappa (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6)
Bass – Buell Neidlinger (tracks: 1-1, 1-5), Wilton Felder (tracks: 1-2 to 1-4, 1-6)
Bass [Amplified] – John Heard (tracks: 2-1 to 2-5)
Bassoon – Donald Christlieb (tracks: 1-5)
Cello – Harold Bemko (tracks: 1-5)
Composed By – Frank Zappa (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5, 1-6), Jean-Luc Ponty (tracks: 1-4, 2-3)
Conductor – Ian Underwood (tracks: 1-5)
Drums – Arthur Dyer Tripp III (tracks: 1-1, 1-5), Dick Berk (tracks: 2-1 to 2-5), John Guerin (tracks: 1-2 to 1-4, 1-6)
Electric Piano, Piano – George Duke
Electric Violin – Jean-Luc Ponty
English Horn – Gene Cipriano (tracks: 1-5)
Flute – Jonathan Meyer (3) (tracks: 1-5)
French Horn – Arthur Maebe (tracks: 1-5), Vincent DeRosa (tracks: 1-5)
Guitar – Frank Zappa (tracks: 1-4)
Oboe – Gene Cipriano (tracks: 1-5)
Producer – Michael Cuscuna, Richard Bock (tracks: 1-2 to 1-4, 1-6), Dick Bock* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-5)
Saxophone – Ernie Watts (tracks: 1-2 to 1-4, 1-6)
Tenor Saxophone – Ian Underwood (tracks: 1-1)
Vibraphone – Gene Estes (tracks: 1-1)
Viola – Milton Thomas (tracks: 1-5)