== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Featured musician(s)
| total_length =
#* Lead vocals: [[Leon Ware]]
| title1 = Is It Love That We’re Missing?
#* Lead vocals: Paulette McWilliams
| extra1 = George Johnson (vocals)
# “Beautiful Black Girl” (Jones, Otis Smith) (6:12)
| length1 = 3:52
#* Poetry recitation: [[The Watts Prophets]]
| title2 = Paranoid
| extra2 = [[Leon Ware]] (vocals)
# “Just a Little Taste of Me” (George Johnson, Louis Johnson) (3:28)
| length2 = 2:55
| title3 = Mellow Madness
#* Flute: [[Hubert Laws]]
#* Lead vocals: Leon Ware, [[Minnie Riperton]], and Paulette McWilliams
Paulette McWilliams
| length3 = 3:27
# “Tryin’ to Find Out About You” (George Johnson, Louis Johnson) (3:02)
| title4 = Beautiful Black Girl
| writer4 = {{hlist|Jones|Otis Smith}}
| extra4 = [[The Watts Prophets]] (poetry recitation)
#* Guitar, voice bag, and lead vocals: Wah Wah Watson
| length4 = 6:12
# “[[Bluesette]]” ([[Norman Gimbel]], [[Toots Thielemans|Jean “Toots” Thielemans]]) (7:01)
| title5 = Listen (What It Is)
#* Whistling and guitar solo: Toots Thielemans
#* Trombone solo: [[Frank Rosolino]]
| 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}}
| length1 = 3:28
| title2 = [[My Cherie Amour (song)|My Cherie Amour]]
| 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}}
| length3 = 3:02
| title4 = Cry Baby
| extra4 = [[Wah Wah Watson]] (guitar, voice bag, vocals)
| length4 = 4:29
| title5 = [[Bluesette]]
| writer5 = {{hlist|[[Norman Gimbel]]|Jean “Toots” Thielemans}}
| extra5 = [[Toots Thielemans|Jean “Toots” Thielemans]] (whistling, guitar solo)<br/>[[Frank Rosolino]] (trombone solo)
| length5 = 7:01
}}
== Personnel ==
== Personnel ==
1975 studio album by Quincy Jones
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]
- 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
| Year | Album | Chart positions[4] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B |
US Jazz |
||
| 1975 | Mellow Madness | 16 | 3 | 1 |
| 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 | — |
