The Windmills of Your Mind (album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[2]
Allmusic	[3]
The Guardian	[4]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "The Windmills of Your Mind is a collection of jazz and pop standards played by a stellar quartet ".[3]

The Guardian 's John Fordham noted, "Motian enlists Bill Frisell on guitar and Thomas Morgan on bass to turn the usual glides and smooches of these songs into a lurching, spontaneously contrapuntal undertow, in which the rhythm lies as much in what's not being played as what is".[4]

All About Jazz correspondent Dan Bilawsky commented, "Motian's prolific output makes it easy to occasionally overlook some of his albums, but this one is likely to gain a lot of attention. The Windmills Of Your Mind is simply sublime".[2] JazzTimes 's Colin Fleming called the album "a set of pop standards with the deep, well-rounded luxuriousness of modern chamber music, with elements of high-romance. This is jazz as seduction music".[5]

All compositions by Paul Motian except as indicated

1. "Introduction (1)" - 2:23
2. "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) - 3:46
3. "The Windmills of Your Mind" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 6:34
4. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) - 1:52
5. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, James Sherman, Ram Ramirez) - 3:24
6. "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 2:34
7. "Little Foot" - 2:17
8. "Easy Living" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) - 3:11
9. "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:38
10. "Backup" - 2:28
11. "I Loves You Porgy" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:56
12. "Trieste" - 2:04
13. "If I Could Be With You" (Henry Creamer, James P. Johnson) - 3:12
14. "Wednesday's Gone" - 2:04
15. "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 5:39
16. "Introduction (2)" - 3:05

• Paul Motian - drums
• Bill Frisell - electric guitar
• Petra Haden - vocals
• Thomas Morgan - bass