Electric Bath

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Electric Bath
Electric Bath.jpg
Cover art for the album, featuring The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Studio album by
Don Ellis Orchestra
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 19 & 20, 1967
StudioColumbia Recording Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz fusion [1]
Length44:43
Label Columbia
CS 9585
Producer John Hammond
Don Ellis chronology
Live in 3+23/4 Time
(1966–67)
Electric Bath
(1967)
Shock Treatment
(1968)

Electric Bath is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1967 and released on the Columbia label. [2]

Contents

Electric Bath was a Grammy nominee in 1968 and that same year won "Album of the Year" in the annual Down Beat readers poll. This album was Don's first studio recording with his big band and his first Columbia Records release. It was produced by noted jazz record producer John Hammond. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [7]

Scott Yanow for AllMusic states, "For the first time Ellis opened his band to the influence of rock (making liberal use of electronics) and the results lend themselves to some hilarity". [4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "No one sounded like this. Tough as it sometimes is, Ellis' music is never less than exhilarating". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Don Ellis except as indicated

  1. "Indian Lady" – 8:06
  2. "Alone" (Hank Levy) – 5:32
  3. "Turkish Bath" (Ron Myers) – 10:16
  4. "Open Beauty" – 8:29
  5. "New Horizons" – 12:20
  6. "Turkish Bath" [Single] (Myers) – 2:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "Indian Lady" [Single] – 2:58 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. "Essential 60s and 70s Jazz Fusion Albums". Thoughtco.com.
  2. Don Ellis discography Archived 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 27, 2013
  3. "DonEllisMusic". DonEllisMusic.com. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed May 27, 2013
  5. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp.  409. ISBN   978-0141023274.
  6. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 71. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  7. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.