Overview
Shack-man is an album by experimental jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood, released in 1996.
It peaked at #7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.
Production
The album was recorded in an isolated shack in Hawaii, with power supplied by solar energy and generators.
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." New York wrote that "the changes are episodic, as in funk, rather than conversational, as in jazz." Relix called it a "dark, funky dorm room breakthrough."
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