Open Mind (album)

Open Mind
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 (Burbank, California) ; Atlantic (New York City, New York)
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	39:18
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty chronology

ReleasedJuly 5, 1984

RecordedMay – July 1984

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

GenreJazz fusion

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AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]

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

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

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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