Mind Transplant Explained

Mind Transplant
Type:	Album
Artist:	Alphonse Mouzon
Cover:	Mind Transplant.jpg
Released:	1975
Recorded:	December 4, 5, 6, 9 & 10, 1974
Genre:	Jazz-funk, fusion
Length:	33:03
Label:	Blue Note
Producer:	Skip Drinkwater
Chronology:	Alphonse Mouzon
Prev Title:	Funky Snakefoot
Prev Year:	1973
Next Title:	The Man Incognito
Next Year:	1976

Mind Transplant is the third album by American jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Note label.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Robert Taylor awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Raw and powerful, the music herein is what made fusion such a viable musical style... Easily one of the best fusion recordings of all time".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Elvena Mouzon

1. "Mind Transplant" - 4:05
2. "Snow Bound" - 3:05
3. "Carbon Dioxide" - 4:38
4. "Ascorbic Acid" - 3:26
5. "Happiness Is Loving You" - 4:09
6. "Some of the Things People Do" - 3:40
7. "Golden Rainbows" - 6:56
8. "Nitroglycerin" - 3:04

• Recorded at Wally Heider Sound Studio III in Los Angeles, California on December 4 (tracks 2, 5 & 7), December 5 (track 6), December 6 (tracks 3 & 8) and December 9 & 10 (tracks 1 & 3), 1974

Personnel

• Alphonse Mouzon - drums, vocals, synthesizer, electric piano, organ, arranger, conductor
• Jerry Peters - electric piano, organ
• Tommy Bolin, Lee Ritenour - guitar
• Jay Graydon - guitar, voice bag on "Snow Bound", programming
• Henry Davis - electric bass

Produced by Skip DrinkwaterArranged By Alphonse Mouzon

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-bn-la-series/#bn-la-398-g Blue Note Records discography
2. Taylor, R. AllMusic Review accessed January 12, 2011