Mind Transplant - Alphonse Mouzon

Mind Transplant was an album by Alphonse Mouzon featuirng Tommy Bolin. The strange character that is Alphonse - a jazz fusion drummer who is of Afro-American, French and Blackfoot Indian descent oozes funkiness. I tried to get into this album but having listened to Billy Cobham's Spectrum, I just couldn't help but compare the two and this one came off worst. Whilst Tommy Bolin's guitar work is as good as ever on this album, you feel that he is somewhat more chilled out and therefore there is not so many intricate solos than there are in Cobham's Spectrum album. The start of most tracks give you the impression the album maybe psychedelic in a Pink Floyd way but ...  Read the complete review