Cosmic Messenger

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{{Infobox album

| name = Cosmic Messenger

| type = Studio

| artist = Jean-Luc Ponty

| cover = Cosmic Messenger (album art).jpg

| alt =

| released = August 10, 1978

| recorded = April 1978

| venue =

| studio = Cherokee Studios & Chateau Recorders (Hollywood, California)

| genre = Jazz fusion

| length = 37:45

| label = Atlantic

| producer = Jean-Luc Ponty

| prev_title = Enigmatic Ocean

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = Live

| next_year = 1979

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r145736 |title=Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger (1978) album review | AllMusic |first=Richard S. |last=Ginell |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=August 13, 2011}}

| rev2 = Music Week

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite magazine|date=February 10, 1979|title=Album Reviews: Jean-Luc Ponty — "Cosmic Messenger"|magazine=Music Week|page=34|publisher=Pensord Press Ltd.|location=Gwent|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-02-10.pdf#page=34|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905225333/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-02-10.pdf#page=34|archive-date=September 5, 2024|access-date=March 26, 2025|via=WorldRadioHistory.com}}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book|editor-last=Swenson|editor-first=J.|year=1985|title=The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide|publisher=Random House/Rolling Stone|location=N. Y.|page=163|isbn=0-394-72643-X}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Cosmic Messenger is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1978.{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Mark |title=Ponty struts his stuff without retaining identity |work=The Globe and Mail |date=25 Sep 1978 |page=P14}}

Track listing

All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty.

  1. "Cosmic Messenger" – 4:38
  2. "The Art of Happiness" – 4:33
  3. "Don't Let the World Pass You By" – 6:23
  4. "I Only Feel Good With You" – 3:05
  5. "Puppets' Dance" – 3:40
  6. "Fake Paradise" – 5:41
  7. "Ethereal Mood" – 4:03
  8. "Egocentric Molecules" – 5:44

Personnel

Production

  • Engineer & mixing: Ed E. Thacker
  • Assistant engineers: Brian Leshon, Chris Gregg, Rick Collins, Russ Bracher
  • Mastered by Greg Calbi
  • Claudia Ponty – cover concept
  • Daved Levitan – front cover painting
  • Gary Heery – back cover photo
  • Sam Emerson – inner sleeve photos

Recorded at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, California, and Chateau Recorders, North Hollywood, California.

Mixed at Chateau Recorders.

Mastered at Sterling Sound Inc., New York City, New York.

Chart positions

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Year

!Chart

!Position

rowspan=2|1978

|Billboard Jazz Albums

|2

Billboard Pop Albums{{cite web |title=Jean-Luc Ponty |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jean-luc-ponty-2/ |website=Billboard |access-date=8 February 2024}}

|36

References

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