Shack-man is the fourth album by experimentaljazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood, released in 1996.[1][6][7] It was widely considered their commercial breakthrough, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.[8]
Production
The album was recorded in an isolated shack in Hawaii, with power supplied by solar energy and generators.[9]
Critical reception
AllMusic called the album "the best example to date of the trio's cerebral fusion of soul-jazz, hip-hop, and post-punk worldbeat."[3]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 1996's Shack Man, a Hammond-hammered Phish-lot mainstay that opened the door for instrumental improv groups like Soulive and Particle."[12]
