Open Strings

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

Open Strings
Studio album by Jean-Luc Ponty
Released	1971
Recorded	December 1971
Studio	MPS-Studio (Villingen, Germany)
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:54
Label	MPS
Producer	Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty chronology
King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (1969) Open Strings (1971) Upon the Wings of Music (1975)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]
AllMusic	[2]
The Guardian	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

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.