Track listing

1. "King Kong" – 4:58
2. "Idiot Bastard Son" – 4:01
3. "Twenty Small Cigars" – 5:35
4. "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That" (Ponty) – 7:18
5. "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" – 19:25
6. "America Drinks and Goes Home" – 2:42
7. "Foosh" (George Duke) – 9:01
8. "Pamukkale" (Dauner) – 6:33
9. "Contact" (Ponty) – 7:15
10. "Cantaloupe Island
    Cantaloupe Island
    Cantaloupe Island is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock and recorded on his 1964 album Empyrean Isles. during his early years as one of the members of Miles Davis '60s quintet. It is one of the very first examples of a modal jazz composition set to a funky beat...
    
    " (Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
    
    ) – 8:28
11. "Starlight, Starbright" (Jean-Bernard Eisinger) – 9:23

Personnel

• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, electric violin, baritone violin
• Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
  
   – guitar
• Art Tripp
  Art Tripp
  Arthur Dyer Tripp III is a chiropractor and former musician best known for his work as a percussionist with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band.-Early career:Tripp grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and started playing drums in...
  
   – drums
• Ian Underwood
  Ian Underwood
  Ian Robertson Underwood is a woodwind and keyboards player. He began his career by playing San Francisco Bay Area coffeehouses and bars with his improvisational group the Jazz Mice in the mid 1960s before he became a member of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in 1967 for their third studio...
  
   – tenor sax
• Ernie Watts
  Ernie Watts
  Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...
  
   – alto and tenor sax
• George Duke
  George Duke
  George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...
  
   – piano
• Gene Estes – percussion, vibraphone
• Dick Berk – drums
• Wilton Felder
  Wilton Felder
  Wilton Lewis Felder is both a saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of The Crusaders, initially called the Jazz Crusaders. Felder, Wayne Henderson, Joe Sample, and Stix Hooper founded the group while in high school in Houston...
  
   – bass
• John Guerin
  John Guerin
  John Payne Guerin worked as a drummer, percussionist, and recording artist worldwide.Guerin was born in Hawaii and raised in San Diego. As a young drummer he began performing with Buddy DeFranco in 1960...
  
   – drums
• John Heard – bass
• Buell Neidlinger
  Buell Neidlinger
  Buell Neidlinger is an American cellist and double bassist.Neidlinger was born in Westport, Connecticut. After Yale University, he moved to New York City and began playing in various jazz settings...
  
   – bass
• Milton Thomas – viola
• Vincent DeRosa – French horn, descant
• Donald Christlieb – bassoon
• Gene Cipriano – English horn, oboe
• Arthur Maebe – flugelhorn, French horn, tuben
• Jonathan Meyer – flute
• Harold Bemko – cello, electronic sounds

Production notes

• Richard Bock – producer
• Frank Zappa – arranger, composer, conductor
• Ian Underwood– conductor
• Leonard Feather
  Leonard Feather
  Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.-Biography:...
  
  – liner notes
• David Brand – engineer
• Dick Klune – engineer
• Andrew Thompson – remastering
• Michael Cuscuna – reissue producer