{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Mellow Madness | type = studio | artist = Quincy Jones | cover = mellowquincy.jpg | alt = | released = August 1975 | recorded = 1975<br>Record Plant, Los Angeles and Westlake Audio | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz, R&B | length = 44:07 | label = A&M | producer = Quincy Jones | prev_title = Body Heat | prev_year = 1974 | next_title = I Heard That!! | next_year = 1976 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r141860|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev2Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | page = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/114 114] }}</ref> }} '''''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.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r141860|label=Mellow Madness}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | headline = Side one | extra_column = Featured musician(s) | total_length = | title1 = Is It Love That We're Missing? | writer1 = {{hlist|George Johnson|Debbie Smith}} | extra1 = George Johnson (vocals) | length1 = 3:52 | title2 = Paranoid | writer2 = Joe Green | extra2 = Leon Ware (vocals) | length2 = 2:55 | title3 = Mellow Madness | writer3 = {{hlist|Quincy Jones|Tom Bahler|Paulette McWilliams|Al Ciner}} | extra3 = Paulette McWilliams (vocals) | length3 = 3:27 | title4 = Beautiful Black Girl | writer4 = {{hlist|Jones|Otis Smith}} | extra4 = The Watts Prophets (poetry recitation) | length4 = 6:12 | title5 = Listen (What It Is) | writer5 = {{hlist|G. Johnson|Louis Johnson}} | extra5 = George Johnson and Paulette McWilliams (vocals) | length5 = 4:16 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | extra_column = Featured musician(s) | total_length = | title1 = Just a Little Taste of Me | writer1 = {{hlist|G. Johnson|L. Johnson}} | extra1 = George Johnson | length1 = 3:28 | title2 = My Cherie Amour | writer2 = {{hlist|Stevie Wonder|Henry Cosby|Sylvia Moy}} | extra2 = Leon Ware, Minnie Ripperton, and Paulette McWilliams (vocals)<br/>Hubert Laws (flute) | length2 = 5:25 | title3 = Tryin' to Find Out About You | writer3 = {{hlist|G. Johnson|L. Johnson}} | extra3 = Harvey Mason (drums) | length3 = 3:02 | title4 = Cry Baby | writer4 = {{hlist|Jones|Wah Wah Watson|Robert Bryant}} | extra4 = Wah Wah Watson (guitar, voice bag, vocals) | length4 = 4:29 | title5 = Bluesette | writer5 = {{hlist|Norman Gimbel|Jean "Toots" Thielemans}} | extra5 = Jean "Toots" Thielemans (whistling, guitar solo)<br/>Frank Rosolino (trombone solo) | length5 = 7:01 }}
== Personnel == * Quincy Jones – producer, arranger, keyboards, trumpet, background vocals '''Musicians''' * Wah Wah Watson, George Johnson – guitars * Toots Thielemans – guitar {{small|(track 10)}} * Dennis Budimir – guitar {{small|(track 7)}} * Louis Johnson – bass guitar * Chuck Rainey – bass guitar {{small|(track 10)}} * Max Bennett – bass guitar {{small|(track 7)}} * Don Grusin, Dave Grusin, Jerry Peters – keyboards * Mike Melvoin – keyboards {{small|(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 {{small|(track 7)}} * Tommy Morgan – bass harmonica {{small|(track 6)}} * Harvey Mason – drums * Grady Tate – drums {{small|(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 {{small|(track 7)}}
'''Technical personnel''' * Tom Bahler – assistant arranging * Paul Riser – assistant arranging * Phil Schier – engineer * Joan DeCola – assistant engineer
== Charts == {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="2"| Chart positions<ref name="allmusic albums">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p6851/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=Quincy Jones US albums chart history|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-05-30}}</ref> |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! style="width:40px;"| US ! style="width:40px;"| US<br />R&B ! style="width:40px;"| US<br />Jazz |- || 1975 | style="text-align:left;"| ''Mellow Madness'' | 16 | 3 | 1 |}
=== Singles === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="3"| Chart positions<ref name="allmusic singles">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p6851/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|title=Quincy Jones US singles chart history|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-05-30}}</ref> |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! style="width:40px;"| US ! style="width:40px;"| US<br />R&B ! style="width:40px;"| US<br />Dance |- ||1975 | style="text-align:left;"| "Is It Love That We're Missing?" | 70 | 18 | — |- ||1976 | style="text-align:left;"| "Mellow Madness" | — | 82 | — |}
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