Open Strings

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Open Strings
Jean Luc Ponty Open Strings.jpg
Studio album by
Released1971
RecordedDecember 1971
StudioMPS-Studio (Villingen, Germany)
Genre Jazz
Length39:54
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 French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1971 on vinyl by the MPS label.

Contents

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

Technical

Recorded at MPS-Studio, Villingen, Germany, December 1971.

References

  1. Kelman, John (28 March 2011). "Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Strings (1971, Remastered 2011) album review |All About Jazz". www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  2. Yanow, Scott. "Jean-Luc Ponty Experience / Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Strings (1971) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  3. Fordham, John (7 July 2011). "Jean-Luc Ponty Experience: Open Strings – review | Music | The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 163. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.