Shack-man is the fourth album by experimentaljazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood, released in 1996.[1][3][4] It was widely considered their commercial breakthrough, peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.[5]
AllMusic called the album "the best example to date of the trio's cerebral fusion of soul-jazz, hip-hop, and post-punk worldbeat."[7]New York wrote that "the changes are episodic, as in funk, rather than conversational, as in jazz."[10]Relix called it a "dark, funky dorm room breakthrough."[11]
The Cleveland Scene wrote that the group "made it cool to groove again with 1996s Shack-man, a Hammond-hammered Phish-lot mainstay that opened the door for instrumental improv groups like Soulive and Particle."[12]
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