Jean-Luc Ponty - King Kong Jean Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (World Pacific Jazz 1969)
Produced by Frank Zappa. This record is sort of companion piece to Zappa's Hot Rats. The lead character here being French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty rather than electric guitarist Frank Zappa/
Mothers Art Tripp and Ian Underwood contribute. Future Mother George Duke came along with Jean_luc Ponty. Zappa has one guitar cameo on the record, but this is more about the arrangements that anything else.
Jean-Luc Ponty joined the Mothers for a brief spell around the Overnite Sensation LP. When Zappa was on SNL in a Coneheads skit, he made reference to once having a French person in the band, so he understood the Conehead's idiosyncrasies. (Remember the Coneheads pretended to be from France.
Released on the World Pacific Jazz label.
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