''Open Strings'' is an album by French
jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...
artist
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.
Early life
Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitt ...
, released in 1971 on vinyl by the
MPS label.
Track listing
All songs written by Jean-Luc Ponty, except where noted.
Side one
#"Flipping, Pt.1" – 4:40
#"Flipping, Pt.2" – 10:40
#"Flipping, Pt.3" – 5:33
Side two
#"Open Strings" – 15:40
#"Sad Ballad"
(Joachim Kühn
Joachim Kurt Kühn (born 15 March 1944) is a German jazz pianist.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig, Germany. Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition, with Arthur Schmid ...
) – 4:11
Personnel
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.
Early life
Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitt ...
– violin
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Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.
Biography
Philip Catherine was born in London, England, to an English mother and Belgian father, and was raised in Brussels, Belgium. His grandfather was a violinist in the ...
– guitar
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Joachim Kühn
Joachim Kurt Kühn (born 15 March 1944) is a German jazz pianist.
Biography
He was born in Leipzig, Germany. Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition, with Arthur Schmid ...
– keyboards
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Peter Warren –
double bass
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* Oliver Johnson – drums
;Technical
* Rolf Donner – engineer
* Willi Fruth – engineer, recording director
* Bernhard Wetz – design
* Anno Wilms – cover photography
* Hans Harzheim – inside, riverside photography
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Joachim E. Berendt – producer, liner notes
Recorded at MPS-Studio,
Villingen, Germany, December 1971.
References
External links
Jean-Luc Ponty Experience / Jean-Luc Ponty - ''Open Strings'' (1971) album review by Scott Yanow, credits & releasesat
AllMusic
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1971 albums
Jean-Luc Ponty albums
MPS Records albums