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Date(s) Recorded
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September 17, 1967 - September 20, 1967
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Tracks
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- Indian Lady (Ellis) - 8:07
- Alone (Levy) - 5:32
- Turkish Bath (Myers) - 10:29
- Open Beauty (Ellis) - 8:27
- New Horizons (Ellis) - 12:21
- Turkish Bath single (Myers) - 2:52*
- Indian Lady single (Ellis) - 2:58*
* Included on CD Reissue, not original LP release
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Credits
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- Don Ellis Trumpet
- Ruben Leon - Alto Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute
- Joe Roccisano - Alto Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute
- Ira Shulman - Tenor Sax, Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet
- Ron Starr - Tenor Sax, Flute, Clarinet
- John Magruder - Baritone Sax, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
- Steve Bohannon - Drums
- Frank DeLaRosa - Bass
- Alan Estes - Percussion, Timbales, Vibraphone
- Bob Harmon - Trumpet
- Michael Lang - Piano, Keyboards, Clavinet
- Ron Myers - Trombone
- Tom Myers - Trombone
- Ray Neapolitan - Bass, Sitar
- Dave Parlato - Bass
- Mark Stevens - Percussion, Timbales, Vibraphone
- Glenn Stuart - Trumpet
- Chino Valdes - Bongos, Conga
- Edward Warren - Trumpet
- Alan Weight - Trumpet
- Alan Wight - Trumpet
- Terry Woodson - Trombone
- Mike Lang - Piano, Clavinet
- David Sanchez Trombone
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Liner Notes
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Digby Diehl
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Releases
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Columbia/Legacy 9585 (1967)
GNP Crescendo 2223 (1994) CD Reissue
Columbia/Legacy 65522 (1998) CD Reissue (remastered): Available at CDNOW for $10.49
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Notes
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Packaging includes a short quote from Henry Mancini.
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Electric Bath (1967), which was nominated for a Grammy award and also earned an "Album of the Year" award from Down Beat magazine, quickly became Ellis's most popular release to date. The recording was Ellis's first studio album with his orchestra and also his first on the Columbia label. The 5/4 "Indian Lady," from the Electric Bath session, features passages of Indian-inspired textures and became a fan favorite. A shortened version was released as a single. Another selection on the recording, titled "Open Beauty," features psychedelic webs of electronic effects, including creative trumpet improvisation by Ellis utilizing an echoplex tape-loop.
The studio environment of Electric Bath provided Ellis the ability to control every aspect of the recording. This control resulted in
a more sophisticated production and tighter performances than that of his first two live recordings. Regarding Electric Bath, Henry Mancini commented, "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."
Of the same recording, noted jazz critic, Digby Diehl, commented in the liner notes:
"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 [ . . . ] Don's use of a funky 7/4 or a blues in 5 gives us a delightfully renewed sense of tension in rhythm. New tempos change our awareness of accents, break down the clichι phrases based on 2/4 or 4/4, and [ . . . ] make us listen in very real natural extensions of a modern musical conception. The Don Ellis Band has no academic hang-ups about its music it just radiates good vibrations in a refreshing contemporary idiom."
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