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James "Blood" Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
by Troy Collins
Almost two years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Bad Blood In The City arrives. During its chaotic aftermath, Harmolodic guitarist and futuristic bluesman James “Blood" Ulmer penned a number of tunes inspired by the events surrounding the disaster. Bolstered by a half dozen classic blues tunes, this concept record serves as a harrowing reminder of ...
James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
by Ian Patterson
The Piety recording studio, where James Blood Ulmer recorded Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions, stands on the corner of Piety and Dauphine Streets, the original route of the famous Desire streetcar line in New Orleans' ninth ward. In an early scene from Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley enters the ...
Back in Time
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Last One (Ulmer); 02. Open Doors (Ulmer); 03. Happy Time (Ulmer); 04. Little Red House (Ulmer); 05. Water Tree (Burnham); 06. Love Nest (Ulmer); 07. Woman Coming (Ulmer); 08. Channel One (Ulmer); 09. Let's Get Married (Ulmer); 10. Free for Three (Benbow)
Odyssey the Band: Back in Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Negli ultimi anni il chitarrista-cantante James Blood Ulmer si è spostato ad esplorare scenari singolari di blues post-rurale, ottenendo risultati di grande interesse. I suoi recenti lavori hanno il pregio di essere basati sulla rilettura di elementi tradizionali filtrati dalla sua peculiare visione mutuata da quella sensibilità di avanguardista ‘sui generis’ che tutti gli riconoscono. In ...
Birthright
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Take My Music Back To The Church; I Can
James Blood Ulmer: There is Another Place to Go
by Paul Olson
Guitarist James Blood Ulmer's played his way through a veritable history of American music. Beginning guitar as a four-year-old in 1946, Ulmer was singing professionally with the gospel group The Southern Sons while still in grade school. Ulmer went on to play guitar on the national R&B/doo-wop chitlin' circuit until he devoted himself to jazz, becoming ...
James Blood Ulmer: Birthright
by C. Michael Bailey
James Blood Ulmer continues the all-out assault on the blues that he began with 2001's Memphis Blood and continued with No Escape From the Blues, released in 2003. After thirty years riding the edge of the avant-garde with the harmolodic Ornette Coleman and others, Ulmer emerges as a rural blues Sun Ra, a 21st century musical ...
No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Goin New York/ Hustle Is On/ Who's Been
Talkin'/ Ghetto Child/ Are You Glad to Be in America/ You
Know, I Know/ Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)/ Bright
Lights, Big City/ No Escape from the Blues/ Satisfy (Story of My
Life)/ Trouble
in Mind/ The Blues Had a Baby and Called it Rock N Roll
James Blood Ulmer: No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions
by David Vance
James Blood Ulmer's raw, aggressive guitar work with Ornette Coleman, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and others established him as one of the brightest lights in contemporary jazz. By adapting elements of rock (particularly Jimi Hendrix) and blues to Coleman's melodic language and incorporating bizarre alternate tunings, Ulmer, along with Sonny Sharrock and Derek Bailey, was one of ...
