Mellow Madness

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]

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]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Featured musician(s)	Length
1.	"Is It Love That We're Missing?"	George Johnson Debbie Smith	George Johnson (vocals)	3:52
2.	"Paranoid"	Joe Green	Leon Ware (vocals)	2:55
3.	"Mellow Madness"	Quincy Jones Tom Bahler Paulette McWilliams Al Ciner	Paulette McWilliams (vocals)	3:27
4.	"Beautiful Black Girl"	Jones Otis Smith	The Watts Prophets (poetry recitation)	6:12
5.	"Listen (What It Is)"	G. Johnson Louis Johnson	George Johnson and Paulette McWilliams (vocals)	4:16

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Featured musician(s)	Length
1.	"Just a Little Taste of Me"	G. Johnson L. Johnson	George Johnson	3:28
2.	"My Cherie Amour"	Stevie Wonder Henry Cosby Sylvia Moy	Leon Ware, Minnie Ripperton, and Paulette McWilliams (vocals) Hubert Laws (flute)	5:25
3.	"Tryin' to Find Out About You"	G. Johnson L. Johnson	Harvey Mason (drums)	3:02
4.	"Cry Baby"	Jones Wah Wah Watson Robert Bryant	Wah Wah Watson (guitar, voice bag, vocals)	4:29
5.	"Bluesette"	Norman Gimbel Jean "Toots" Thielemans	Jean "Toots" Thielemans (whistling, guitar solo) Frank Rosolino (trombone solo)	7:01

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

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	—