Percussion Ensemble is an album by American percussionist Milford Graves, recorded in July 1965 and released in 1966 by the ESP-Disk label.
"[4] Val Wilmer wrote that the recording "remains just about the most brilliantly conceived and executed percussion album to date.
Although Graves and Morgan had, within their reach, instruments that fall within the category of percussion, the richness of the vocabulary applied to them pushes the sound beyond the realm of expectation.
"[6] In a review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson wrote that the album "is... a rare example of a free jazz recording that offers percussion instruments exclusively... [it] isn't nearly as interesting as some might hope.
Rather than rushing forward in an imagined line of unfolding time, stasis and perpetual movement oscillate in circles of shingled layers, a centripetal spiralling inward to the centre of nothingness: deep drum, gong, silence.