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James Blood Ulmer and the Thing at Bochum Art Museum

by Phillip Woolever
April 17, 2018

James Blood Ulmer and The Thing Bochum Art Museum Bochum, Germany April 8, 2018 Improvisational master guitarist Ulmer has played a number of varying, high quality shows around Germany in recent years, solidifying his reputation as a wide-ranging entertainer. Tonight's set was one of his best. A considerable contribution ...

Album

Baby Talk

By James Blood Ulmer

Label: Trost Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Interview; High Yellow; Baby Talk; Proof.

Article: Album Review

James Blood Ulmer: Baby Talk

Read "Baby Talk" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 14, 2017

It was a predestined meeting. This collaboration between the legendary guitarist James Blood Ulmer and the band The Thing. Ulmer, who cut his teeth with the soul jazz organists Hank Marr, Larry Young and Big John Patton before collaborating with Ornette Coleman's electric free jazz/funk harmolodic music, expanded upon Coleman's ideas, incorporating rock music with players ...

Article: Live From New York

Creative Music Studio Spring Workshop 2017

by Martin Longley
July 2, 2017

Creative Music Studio Spring Workshop 2017 Full Moon Resort Big Indian, NY June 12-15, 2017 There are multiple facets to the lengthy, imaginative musical journey of Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Together with Ornette Coleman, they founded the Creative Music Studio and Foundation in 1971. Their old Woodstock ...

Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2017

by Ian Patterson
May 9, 2017

Bray Jazz Festival Various venues Bray, Ireland May 28-30, 2017 There are just so many cultural events going on in Ireland over the May Bank Holiday weekend that it can be a bit of a head-spin deciding what to opt for. Roots music gatherings, literature festivals, classical recitals, a chamber ...

Article: Profile

Arthur Blythe, 1940-2017: A Remembrance

by Todd S. Jenkins
March 30, 2017

The emotive power of Arthur Blythe's bracing alto saxophone tone and flighty phrasing set him apart from many of his generation. A poet, a muezzin, an angry activist, a lamenting lover: Blythe conjured a broad array of sonic images through his nonpareil approach to music. The beloved altoist, who had battled Parkinson's disease for the past ...

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Improvised Music Company@25, Various Artists At Sugar Club

by Ian Patterson
December 14, 2016

Improvised Music Company@25 Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland November 26, 2016 It was an appropriately festive atmosphere in the Sugar Club to mark Improvised Music Company's twenty fifth birthday celebrations. Older musicians, perhaps just starting out a quarter of a century ago, rubbed shoulders with the current generation of aspiring ...

Article: Album Review

Jeff Parker: Slight Freedom

Read "Slight Freedom" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
December 10, 2016

One is tempted to think of Jeff Parker as the first guitar anti-hero. He's a subtle player, first and foremost, not given to showy pyrotechnics and rapid-fire flights of plectral fancy. His chameleonic, almost self-effacing, presence on recordings by Tortoise, Joey DeFrancesco, Isotope 217, Fred Anderson, the Brian Blade Fellowship, Peter Erskine, Nicole Mitchell, Yo La ...

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London Jazz Festival 2016

by Duncan Heining
November 25, 2016

The London Jazz Festival, now in its 24th year, straddles the capital--its noble aim, as ever, is the provision of musical succour for the diverse tastes that make up the larger British jazz audience. You want mainstream, you'll find it. Looking for fusion, then look no further. Free jazz, bebop, blues? Step this way. Postjazz? Postjazz? ...

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Suoni Per Il Popolo 2016

by Mike Chamberlain
July 1, 2016

Suoni Per Il Popolo La Sala Rossa Montréal, Canada June 2-19, 2016 The final weekend of the 16th Suoni Per Il Popolo featured several notable performances by jazz-based artists: Myra Melford and Francois Bourassa; Luc Ex's Assemblee; and The Thing, with guest James Blood Ulmer. The program by pianists ...