Mellow Madness

Mellow Madness
Studio album by Quincy Jones
Released	August 1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Jazz, R&B
Length	42:48
Label	A&M
Producer	Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones chronology
Body Heat (1974) Mellow Madness (1975) I Heard That!! (1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

Mellow Madness is a 1975 studio album by Quincy Jones. This was Jones' first album recorded since treatment for a Cerebral aneurysm. The album also featured an early appearance by The Brothers Johnson.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Is It Love That We're Missing?" (George Johnson, Debbie Smith)
2. "Paranoid"
3. "Mellow Madness" (Tom Bahler, Al Ciner, Quincy Jones, Paulette McWilliams)
4. "Beautiful Black Girl" (Jones, Otis Smith)
5. "Listen (What It Is)" (Jones)
6. "Just a Little Taste of Me"
7. "My Cherie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder)
8. "Tryin' to Find Out About You"
9. "Cry Baby"
10. "Bluesette" (Norman Gimbel, Toots Thielemans)

Personnel

Performance

• Quincy Jones - Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Producer, Trumpet, Vocals, Background vocals
• Toots Thielemans - Guitar, Harmonica
• Dave Grusin, Don Grusin, Mike Melvoin, Jerry Peters - Keyboards
• Ian Underwood - Synthesizer
• Louis Johnson, Max Bennett, Chuck Rainey - Bass
• Grady Tate, Harvey Mason - Drums
• Wah Wah Watson, George Johnson, Dennis Budimir - Guitar
• Ralph MacDonald - Conga, Drums, Percussion
• Hubert Laws - Flute
• Tommy Morgan - Harmonica
• Ernie Krivda, Sahib Shihab - Saxophone
• Bill Lamb, Chuck Findley, Tom Bahler - Trumpet
• Frank Rosolino - Trombone, Trumpet
• George Bohanon - Trombone
• Jerome Richardson - Wind
• Minnie Riperton, Leon Ware, Jesse Kirkland, Myrna Matthews, Paulette McWilliams, Joseph Greene, Jim Gilstrap, Paulette Williams, Carolyn Willis, Watts Prophets, George Johnson - Vocals

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions[4]
		US	US R&B	US Jazz
1975	Mellow Madness	16	3	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[5]
		US	US R&B	US Dance
1975	"Is It Love That We're Missing?"	70	18	—
1976	"Mellow Madness"	—	82	—

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 114. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. Mellow Madness at AllMusic
4. "Quincy Jones US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
5. "Quincy Jones US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-05-30.