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Birthright

Birthright (2005) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

Since the end of the last decade, James Blood Ulmer has been involved in a conscious investigation of the blues as a force for reinvention. On various labels and with a varying group of musicians, Blood has fused, melded, and strained the genre through everything from funk to psychedelic rock and jazz with mixed but always provocative results. ...

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No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions

No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions (2003) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

What a glorious mess this album is. No Escape From the Blues assembles the same team that issued the brilliant and soulful Memphis Blood for a second chapter, assembling in the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York. In making their second stop on the legendary studio tour -- Memphis Blood was recorded at Sun -- Ulmer and company move through ...

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America: Do You Remember the Love? (1986) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

An odd but very effective album, this release under Ulmer's name could almost have been issued under Bill Laswell's, so strong is the producer's (and bassist's) presence. With Ronald Shannon Jackson in tow alongside Laswell stable regular Nicky Skopelitis, this sounds more than a little like several of Laswell's late-'80s multicultural discs. The ...

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Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions

Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions (2001) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

Over three days in April 2001, James "Blood" Ulmer and producer/guitarist Vernon Reid (yes, of Living Colour fame) went into the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis and kicked out some of the greasiest, knottiest, most surreal blues music ever. The blues have always been part of Ulmer's iconography, even when deeply entrenched in the harmolodic ...

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Blues Preacher

Blues Preacher (1992) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

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Blue Blood

Blue Blood (2001) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

For almost a decade, guitarist James Blood Ulmer has been courting the blues as a deeper shade of black with his trademark harmolodic jazz-funk expressionism. In addition, Ulmer's music has come to rely increasingly as much on riffing as it does on improvisation. The results have been mixed; Ulmer is his own worst enemy by not knowing what to ...

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Tales of Captain Black

Tales of Captain Black (1978) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

Tales of Captain Black first appeared in 1978 on the Artist House label in America. It was a label set up for the purpose of allowing visionary artists to do exactly what they wanted to do. They had issued a couple of records by Ornette Coleman previously, so it only made sense to issue one by his then guitarist, James Blood Ulmer. With Coleman on ...

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Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (2007) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

For those who were rightfully seduced by James Blood Ulmer's stripped-to-the-bone 2005 Birthright recording, where the great harmolodic jazz, blues, and funk guitarist played a single guitar and stomped on a board and played the blues like a Delta hoodoo shaman, Bad Blood in the City will come as quite a shock. The session was recorded at the ...

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Blues & Grass

Blues & Grass (2004) more music like this

by The 52nd Street Blues Project

James Blood Ulmer has been on a something of a roll since the late '90s, after reuniting with longtime cohort Charlie Burnham and delving into the blues. The two Vernon Reid-produced blues albums were among the best of his career, with Ulmer adding his harmolodic shadings to classics from the blues canon. The 52nd Street Blues Project is a ...

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Elec. Jazz

Elec. Jazz (1980) more music like this

by Music Revelation Ensemble

Essentially James "Blood" Ulmer's band, the Music Revelation Ensemble both harks back to his early recorded history with saxophonist David Murray and seeks to update the guitarist's unique fusion of funk, out jazz, and hardcore blues. Ulmer's compositions (all of the pieces are his) are under the strong influence of his former teacher and employer ...

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Blues All Night

Blues All Night (1989) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

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Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

In 1972, Ornette Coleman took guitarist James Blood Ulmer under his wing and taught Ulmer the principles of harmolodics, a musical system that treats the elements of harmony, rhythm, and melody equally. On Are You Glad to Be in America?, it drives a series of group improvisations that are simultaneously complex and direct. The sound of Are You ...

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Got Something Good for You (1985) more music like this

by Phalanx

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Guitar Music (2003) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer/Rudolphe Burger

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Black Rock (1982) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

Recorded and issued in 1982, Black Rock was James Blood Ulmer's second Columbia album, a follow-up to the previous year's Free Lancing. This was also Blood's first attempt to take the harmolodic jazz of Ornette Coleman and marry it directly to rock's visceral appearance and funk's in-the-pocket groove. Certainly all his records from Captain Black ...

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Free Lancing (1981) more music like this

by James Blood Ulmer

After cultivating a huge underground reputation both as a sideman in Ornette Coleman's Prime Time band and as an increasingly influential musician among the more experimental edges of the New York City punk and noise scenes, James Blood Ulmer was finally, in 1981, given a major-label contract by Columbia. Free Lancing was the first of three albums ...

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No Wave (1980) more music like this

by The Music Revelation Ensemble

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