''Total Response'' (subtitled ''The United States of Mind Phase 2'') is an album by

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pianist

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released on the

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label in 1972 featuring performances by Silver with

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, Richie Resnicoff,

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and

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, with vocals by

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and

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. In 2004, it was included as the second of a trilogy of albums compiled on CD as ''

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''.

Reception

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review by

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awarded the album 2 stars, and called the album a "sprawling, incoherent, and just plain weird mess of funk, fusion, soul-jazz, African spirituality, and hippie mysticism".Erlewine, S. T.

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accessed January 26, 2025.

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Silver # "Acid, Pot or Pills" - 4:26 # "What Kind of Animal Am I" - 3:38 # "Won't You Open up Your Senses" - 3:56 # "I've Had a Little Talk" - 3:46 # "Soul Searching" - 4:15 # "Big Business" - 5:22 # "I'm Aware of the Animals Within Me" - 3:45 # "Old Mother Nature Calls" - 6:17 # "Total Response" - 5:22

Personnel

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

*Richie Resnicoff - guitar *

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drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(1, 2, 5–7, 9),

(3, 4, 8) - vocals

References

{{Authority control Horace Silver albums 1972 albums Blue Note Records albums Albums produced by Francis Wolff Albums produced by George Butler (record producer) Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio