- avant-garde jazz, jazz, jazz fusion, rock
- 44 min
- 6 tracks
- Pacific Jazz
King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty first released in May 1970 on Liberty Records' World Pacific Records subsidiary label and later released on Blue Note.
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Grave, spare, cool and open-ended.
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- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- A1King Kong4:55
- A2Idiot Bastard Son4:03
- A3Twenty Small Cigars5:37
- A4How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That7:17
- B1Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra19:26
- B2America Drinks and Goes Home2:39
6 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Jean‐Luc Ponty
- Label
- Pacific Jazz
- Released
- 1969
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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