Open Strings

Open Strings
Studio album by Jean-Luc Ponty
Released	1971
Recorded	Recorded at MPS-Studio, Villingen, Germany, December 1971
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:54
Label	MPS
Producer	Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty chronology
King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (1969) Open Strings (1971) Upon the Wings of Music (1975)

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Open Strings is an album by jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1971 on vinyl by the MPS label.

Track listing

All songs written by Jean-Luc Ponty, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Flipping, Pt.1" – 4:40
2. "Flipping, Pt.2" – 10:40
3. "Flipping, Pt.3" – 5:33

Side two

1. "Open Strings" – 15:40
2. "Sad Ballad" (Joachim Kühn) – 4:11

Personnel

• Philip Catherine – guitar
• Oliver Johnson – drums
• Joachim Kühn – keyboards
• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
• Peter Warren – bass

Other credits

• Bernhard Wetz – design
• Rolf Donner – engineer
• Willi Fruth – engineer [recording director]
• Anno Wilms – cover photography
• Hans Harzheim – inside, riverside photography
• Joachim E. Berendt – producer, liner notes

References

External links

• "Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Strings - Jean-Luc Ponty Experience at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 16 June 2013.