Shock Treatment

by Don Ellis

Shock Treatment cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1968
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Shock Treatment' pushes the traditional big band format into radical new territories using odd time signatures and electrified instrumentation. Don Ellis incorporates elements of psychedelia and Eastern rhythms to forge a highly complex, progressive jazz aesthetic.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, complex, instrumental, experimental, fusion, orchestral, percussive

Tracklist

  1. A New Kind of Country (4:10)
  2. Mercy Maybe Mercy (3:20)
  3. Opus 5 (9:19)
  4. Beat Me, Daddy, Seven to the Bar (6:12)
  5. The Tihai (8:44)
  6. Milo's Theme (4:24)
  7. Star Children (3:21)
  8. Homecoming (3:02)
  9. Seven Up (3:59)
  10. Zim (3:59)

Credits

  • Don Ellis - primary artist, trumpet, composed by
  • Joe Lopes - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Joe Roccisano - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Ruben Leon - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • John Magruder - baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, composed by
  • Dave Parlato - bass
  • Frank De La Rosa - bass
  • Ray Neapolitan - bass, sitar
  • Hank Levy - composed by
  • John Hammond - producer
  • Howlett Smith - composed by

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