Open Strings Explained

Open Strings
Type:	studio
Artist:	Jean-Luc Ponty
Cover:	Jean_Luc_Ponty_Open_Strings.jpg
Released:	1971
Recorded:	December 1971
Studio:	MPS-Studio (Villingen, Germany)
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	MPS
Producer:	Jean-Luc Ponty
Prev Year:	1969
Next Title:	Upon the Wings of Music
Next Year:	1975

Open Strings is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1971 on vinyl by the MPS label.

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

• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
• Philip Catherine – guitar
• Joachim Kühn – keyboards
• Peter Warren – double bass
• Oliver Johnson – drums

Technical

• Rolf Donner – engineer
• Willi Fruth – engineer, recording director
• Bernhard Wetz – design
• Anno Wilms – cover photography
• Hans Harzheim – inside, riverside photography
• Joachim E. Berendt – producer, liner notes

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

External links

• Jean-Luc Ponty Experience / Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Strings (1971) album review by Scott Yanow, credits & releases at AllMusic
• Web site: Jean-Luc Ponty Experience - Open Strings (1971) album releases & credits at Discogs . discogs.com . 1972 . 16 June 2013.
• Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Strings (1971) album to be listened as stream on Spotify