Cantaloupe Island (album)
# Cantaloupe Island (album)

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz | (favorable) |
| Allmusic | |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |

Cantaloupe Island is an album by French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty that was recorded in 1969 and released in 1976 by Blue Note. It combines two previously issued albums: King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa and Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio, both recorded in 1969 for the World Pacific label.

## Reissues

* Cantaloupe Island was digitally re-mastered and reissued on CD by BGO in 2006.

## Track listing

* "King Kong" (Frank Zappa) – 4:58
* "Idiot Bastard Son" (Zappa) – 4:01
* "Twenty Small Cigars" (Zappa) – 5:35
* "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That" (Ponty) – 7:18
* "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" (Zappa) – 19:25
* "America Drinks and Goes Home" (Zappa) – 2:42
* "Foosh" (George Duke) – 9:01
* "Pamukkale" (Dauner) – 6:33
* "Contact" (Ponty) – 7:15
* "Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:28
* "Starlight, Starbright" (Jean-Bernard Eisinger) – 9:23

## Personnel

* Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, electric violin, baritone violin
* Ernie Watts – alto and tenor saxophone
* Ian Underwood – tenor saxophone
* George Duke – piano
* Frank Zappa – guitar
* Wilton Felder – bass
* John Heard – bass
* Buell Neidlinger – bass
* Dick Berk – drums
* John Guerin – drums
* Art Tripp – drums
* Gene Estes – percussion, vibraphone
* Arthur Maebe – flugelhorn, French horn, tuben
* Vincent DeRosa – French horn, descant
* Gene Cipriano – English horn, oboe
* Jonathan Meyer – flute
* Donald Christlieb – bassoon
* Milton Thomas – viola
* Harold Bemko – cello, electronic sounds

## Production notes

* Richard Bock – producer
* Frank Zappa – arranger, composer, conductor
* Ian Underwood– conductor
* Leonard Feather – liner notes
* David Brand – engineer
* Dick Klune – engineer
* Andrew Thompson – remastering
* Michael Cuscuna – reissue producer
