Mellow Madness
Studio album by Quincy Jones
Released	August 1975
Recorded	1975 Record Plant, Los Angeles and Westlake Audio
Genre	Jazz, R&B
Length	44:07
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. It was Jones's first album recorded since treatment for a cerebral aneurysm. The album introduced the R&B public to The Brothers Johnson, who co-wrote four of the album tracks. ^[3]

Contents

• Track listing
• Personnel
• Charts
• Singles
• References

Track listing

Personnel

• Quincy Jones – producer, arranger, keyboards, trumpet, background vocals

Musicians

• Wah Wah Watson, George Johnson – guitars
• Toots Thielemans – guitar (track 10)
• Dennis Budimir – guitar (track 7)
• Louis Johnson – bass guitar
• Chuck Rainey – bass guitar (track 10)
• Max Bennett – bass guitar (track 7)
• Don Grusin, Dave Grusin, Jerry Peters – keyboards
• Mike Melvoin – keyboards (track 7)
• Bill Lamb, Chuck Findley – trumpets
• Tom Bahler – trumpet, background vocals
• Frank Rosolino, George Bohanon – trombones
• Ernie Krivda, Sahib Shihab, Jerome Richardson – saxophones
• Hubert Laws – flute (track 7)
• Tommy Morgan – bass harmonica (track 6)
• Harvey Mason – drums
• Grady Tate – drums (track 10)
• Ralph MacDonald – conga, percussion
• Ian Underwood – synthesizer programming
• Paulette McWilliams, Jim Gilstrap, Joe Green, Jesse Kirkland, Myrna Matthews, Carolyn Willis, Leon Ware – background vocals
• Minnie Riperton – background vocals (track 7)

Technical personnel

• Tom Bahler – assistant arranging
• Paul Riser – assistant arranging
• Phil Schier – engineer
• Joan DeCola – assistant engineer

Charts

References