Cantaloupe Island (album)
Cantaloupe Island is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty first released in 1976. 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.
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.
- "King Kong" – 4:58
- "Idiot Bastard Son" – 4:01
- "Twenty Small Cigars" – 5:35
- "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That" (Ponty) – 7:18
- "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" – 19:25
- "America Drinks and Goes Home" – 2:42
- "Foosh" (George Duke) – 9:01
- "Pamukkale" (Dauner) – 6:33
- "Contact" (Ponty) – 7:15
- "Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:28
- "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
Production notes
- Richard Bock – producer
- Frank Zappa – arranger, composer, conductor
- Ian Underwood– conductor
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
- David Brand – engineer
- Dick Klune – engineer
- Andrew Thompson – remastering
- Michael Cuscuna – reissue producer
References
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