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For the 1969 album by the English band, see The Open Mind (band). 1984 studio album by Jean-Luc Ponty

Open Mind

Studio album by Jean-Luc Ponty

Released

July 5, 1984

Recorded

May – July 1984

Studio

La Tour d'Ivoire & Mad Hatter (Los Angeles, California)
The Village Recorder (West Los Angeles, California)
The Enterprise Studios (Burbank, California)
Atlantic Studios (New York City, New York)

Genre

Jazz fusion

Length

39:18

Jean-Luc Ponty chronology

Individual Choice
(1983)

Open Mind
(1984)

Fables
(1985)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Open Mind is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1984.

Track listing

All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty.

"Open Mind" – 8:05
"Solitude" – 6:05
"Watching Birds" – 4:57
"Modern Times Blues" – 7:17
"Orbital Encounters" – 5:14
"Intuition" – 7:40

Personnel

Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, violectra, piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards, vocals, rhythm programming
George Benson – electric guitar (track 4)
Chick Corea – synthesizer (tracks 1, 3)
Casey Scheuerell – drums, tabla (track 3)
Rayford Griffin – drums, percussion (track 5)

Production notes

Jean-Luc Ponty – producer
Dan Nash – engineer
Peter R. Kelsey – engineer, mixing
Steve Hirsch – engineer, assistant engineer
Dave Marquette – engineer, assistant engineer
John Molino – engineer, assistant engineer
Jay Willis – engineer, assistant engineer
Dan Warme – engineer, assistant engineer
Gary Wagner – engineer, assistant engineer
Claudia Ponty – cover art concept

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1984	Billboard Jazz Albums	5
1984	Billboard 200	171

References

Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Mind (1984) album review | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 163. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

External links

v t e Jean-Luc Ponty
Studio albums	Jazz Long Playing (1964) Violin Summit (1966) Sunday Walk (1967) Humair, Louiss, Ponty: Trio HLP (1968) Electric Connection (1969) More Than Meets the Ear (1968) King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (1970) Open Strings (1971) New Violin Summit (1971) Upon the Wings of Music (1975) Aurora (1976) Imaginary Voyage (1976) Enigmatic Ocean (1977) Cosmic Messenger (1978) A Taste for Passion (1979) Civilized Evil (1980) Mystical Adventures (1982) Individual Choice (1983) Open Mind (1984) Fables (1985) The Gift of Time (1987) Storytelling (1989) Tchokola (1991) No Absolute Time (1993) The Rite of Strings (1995) Life Enigma (2001) The Acatama Experience (2007)
Live albums	The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio (1969) Live at Donte's (1969) Astrorama (1970) Live at Montreux 72 (a.k.a. Sonata Erotica) (1972) Waving Memories - Live in Chicago 1975 (1975) Live in Hamburg (1976) Live (1979) Live at Chene Park (1997) Live at Semper Opera (2002) Jean-Luc Ponty in Concert (rec. 1999, rel. 2003) Live in Montreux 1994 (2005)
Compilations	Cantaloupe Island (1976) Le Voyage: The Jean-Luc Ponty Anthology (1996) The Very Best of Jean-Luc Ponty (2000) The Best of Jean-Luc Ponty (2002)
with Frank Zappa	Hot Rats (1969) Over-Nite Sensation (1973) Apostrophe (') (1974) Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981) Beat the Boots!—Piquantique (1991) Beat the Boots! #2—Disconnected Synapses (1992) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992) The Lost Episodes (1996) One Shot Deal (2008) Understanding America (2012) Road Tapes, Venue #2 (2013)
with Mahavishnu Orchestra	Apocalypse (1974) Visions of the Emerald Beyond (1975)
Anderson Ponty Band	Better Late Than Never (2015)
Related articles	Frank Zappa Mahavishnu Orchestra Clara Ponty

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