Indian Lady
Context
Opening track of Electric Bath, the first studio album by Don Ellis's big band, produced by John Hammond in September 1967 in Hollywood. The trumpeter opens his orchestra to rock and electronics here, with Ray Neapolitan's sitar; the album was nominated for a Grammy and voted 1968 album of the year by Down Beat readers.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Modern big bands, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Indo-jazz. Among the origins and influences of Modern big bands: Swing, big bands, Third stream.