Electric Bath

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Electric Bath
Studio album by Don Ellis Orchestra

Publication
(s)

1968

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

5 (7)

running time

44:46 eff.

occupation
  • Trumpet : Don Ellis, Glenn Stuart, Alan Weight, Ed Warren, Bob Harmon
  • Trumpet : Ron Myers, Dave Sanchez, Terry Woodson
  • Tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet: Ron Starr
  • Bass: Frank De La Rosa
  • Bass: Dave Parlato
  • Percussion: Alan Estes

production

Don Ellis
Sound Engineers : Brian Ross-Myring, Arthur Kendy

chronology
Live In 3 2/3 / 4 Time
(1966) 		Electric Bath Shock Treatment
(1968)

Electric Bath is the seventh music album by jazz trumpeter Don Ellis from 1968. It is the first studio album with his orchestra and marks the breakthrough in the career of the musician and composer.

Music genre

The cover design of Electric Bath .
The Turkish Bath , 1862
by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

As is characteristic of Ellis, many aspects of composition and instrumentation are experimented with. Ellis integrates Indian and Oriental influences in terms of melody lines, meters and instrumentation and uses electronic musical instruments and effects devices. Indian-inspired elements are merged with western elements on the 5/4 uptempo title Indian Lady . Electronic effects are used on the psychedelic / spherical open beauty . Here Don Ellis plays a solo with the Echoplex trumpet , an innovative combination of acoustic trumpet and electronic effects devices. (In the years that followed, Ellis developed this invention into the electronic trumpet .)

In the liner notes, Digby Diehl, who worked as a journalist for the New York and Los Angeles Times, writes:

"[...] Try to imagine an acoustic collage from the Beatles , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Ravi Shankar and Leonard Feathers Encyclopedia of Jazz . Imagine how this structure is stirred by 21 high-energy, young talents, like a rumble before the door of the blast furnace is opened. Electric Bath shows this range of ideas and intensity. [...] "

History of origin

Recordings began in 1967 after Ellis caused a sensation with his big band at the Monterey Jazz Festival and was then signed by Columbia Records .

While the previous albums were recorded live, Electric Bath was the first studio album for the Don Ellis Orchestra and also the first album on Columbia. Working in the studio allowed Ellis to control every aspect of the recording, resulting in a more elaborate and sophisticated production style.

Reception of the album

Electric Bath was for a Grammy nominated and received the award in 1968 Album of the Year of Downbeat magazine. The album reached number 8 on the Billboard Jazz Charts. The song Indian Lady became one of the band's most popular tracks and was used as the orchestra's signature tune.

Henry Mancini wrote of Ellis' album:

"My rock- oriented teenage son, Chris, and I were both freaking out about Ellis' new band. Anyone who can reach two such opposing poles at the same time needs attention, needs to be listened to."

Cook and Morton awarded the highest grade in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Electric Bath and emphasized that Ellis had shown with this album that it was possible to record an entertaining jazz album at the height of the rock revolution that would also appeal to a younger audience.

Track list

  1. Indian Lady (Ellis) - 8:06
  2. Alone (Leyvy) - 5:33
  3. Turkish Bath (Myers) - 10:18
  4. Open Beauty (Ellis) - 8:28
  5. New Horizons (Ellis) - 12:22
  6. Turkish Bath - single (Myers) - 2:52
  7. Indian Lady - single (Ellis) - 2:58

The LP contains tracks 1–3 on the A side and 4–5 on the B side. Tracks 6 and 7, shortened versions of 1 and 3, were originally released as a single. Only the 1998 CD edition includes all titles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sean P. Fenlon The Exotic Rhythms of Don Ellis ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.6 MB) Dissertation (Johns Hopkins University) 2002, pp. 35–37 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.donellismusic.com
  2. ↑ "[...] Conceive, if you can, an aural collage created by the Beatles, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ravi Shankar and Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz. And then, imagine that creation churning through the high-powered talents of twenty-one young musicians, like a rumble before you open the door of a blast furnace. Electric Bath runs this scope of ideas and intensity [...] "
  3. ↑ a b Linernotes, LP back, Digby Diehl, 1968
  4. ↑ "My rock-oriented teenage son, Chris, and I have both flipped out over Don Ellis's new band. Anyone who can reach these two opposite poles at once must be reckoned with and listened to."
  5. ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 , p. 481.
  6. ↑ ProgArchives