King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
Occupation
- Jean -Luc Ponty - violin, electric violin, baritone violin
- Frank Zappa - Guitar
- John Guerin - drums
- Buell Neidlinger - bass guitar
- George Duke - piano
- Art Tripp - drums
- Ian Underwood - Tenor Saxophone
- Ernie Watts - alto and tenor saxophone
- Harold Bemko - Cello
- Donald Christlieb - Bassoon
- Gene Cipriano - English horn, oboe
- Vincent DeRosa - French horn, descant
- Gene Estes - percussion, vibraphone
- Milton Thomas - Viola
King Kong: Jean -Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (. Engl. f King Kong Jean -Luc Ponty plays the music of Frank Zappa ) is an album of jazz violinist Jean -Luc Ponty in 1970, on the Ponty in addition to a self composed exclusively plays works by Frank Zappa.
The album
The album was a short interplay between Zappa and Ponty in recording of the album Hot Rats. In addition to Frank Zappa, who plays a distorted guitar solo in How Would You Like To Have A Head Like That, worked from the Hot Rats - Cast John Guerin with. George Duke, who took over the piano part, was engaged in the connection of Zappa.
Three of the pieces, King Kong, Idiot Bastard Son and America Drinks and Goes Home had already been published by the Mothers of Invention on previous albums, Twenty Small Cigars had been recorded during the Hot Rats sessions, but was later on Chunga 's published Revenge of Zappa himself.
Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra is an orchestra piece that Zappa had composed on the occasion of collaboration for the album.
Title list
- King Kong - Jean- Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa - Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra Composed and Arranged by Frank Zappa ( Liberty LBS 83375 )
All the songs, except for How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That which is derived from Jean -Luc Ponty, were composed by Frank Zappa.
Reception
For Steve Huey Album Zappa shows increased credibility as a composer. Show The album that Zappa, was the only one among the jazz-rock musicians who came from rock music, which could hold the complexity of jazz. He sees Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra as a central piece in which influences of jazz, rock and new music would connect to. Leonard Feather pointed out in the original liner notes of the album back on Ponty's importance for the development of the jazz violin, since in the game by Ray Nance Duke Ellington Orchestra nothing new had happened crucial.
Links / sources
- Frank Zappa. Texts and background information about King Kong: Jean -Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa on globalia.net. Accessed on 27 March 2010.
- King Kong. Jean -Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of King Kong. Jean -Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa to the Baby Blue Pages
- Leonard Feather: Original Liner Notes