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Album Review

Blood Ulmer has always been a guitarist to watch. His leaps are blindingly quick; his pauses deafeningly still. Unfortunately his work on record has a checkered past, with masterpieces standing alongside throwaway sellout performances. Blue Blood, an obvious sequel to the most excellent record by Third Rail, features some of the same performers and a similar feel, but unfortunately falls far short.

Third Rail's South Delta Space Age, engineered (in a broad sense) by Bill Laswell, brought together complementary elements ...

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James Blood Ulmer: Memphis Blood

Read "Memphis Blood" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 2001

Memphis Blood could very possibly be as historic a recording as Howlin' Wolf's Evil .

Everything about this release is Romantic. The music ranges from some of the earliest recorded blues for the 1920s to novelty tunes from the '50s and '60s. The recording venue is perhaps the most famous ever, the home of seminal recordings by Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, and Ike Turner, not to mention Elvis Presley. The universal concept of man reckoning ...

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James Blood Ulmer Artists: Music Speaks Louder Than Words "Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman"

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 1997

The latest and perhaps most satisfying James Bllod Ulmer release since his 70's classic Odyssey, finds the harmolodic guitarist taking on six Ornette Coleman tunes and three originals. Ulmer's interpretations of “Lonely Woman," “Elizabeth" and “Skies of America" stay true to the original thematic developments and trademark Coleman harmolodic invention. Ulmer's deeply embedded blues roots and expansive knowledge of master Ornette provide the necessary fundamentals and savvy to execute such an undertaking.

Ulmer's bio is impressive. He ...