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	James Blood Ulmer - Biography - AOL Music
		James "Blood" Ulmer is one of the few exceptions -- an outside guitarist who has forged a style based largely on the traditions of African-American vernacular music.
		Ulmer is an adherent of saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman's vaguely defined Harmolodic theory, which essentially subverts jazz's harmonic component in favor of freely improvised, non-tonal, or quasi-modal counterpoint.
		Ulmer plays with a stuttering, vocalic attack; his lines are frequently texturally and chordally based, inflected with the accent of a soul-jazz tenor saxophonist.
	music.aol.com /artist/james-blood-ulmer/26002/biography (708 words)

	James Ulmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ulmer began his career playing with various soul jazz ensembles, and first recorded with organist John Patton in 1969.
		In the early 1970s, Ulmer joined Ornette Coleman; he was the first electric guitarist to record and tour extensively with Coleman.
		Ulmer has recorded many albums as a leader, including three recent acclaimed blues-oriented records produced by Vernon Reid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer (292 words)

	CD Baby: JAMES BLOOD ULMER: Blue Blood - from relaxradio
		James Blood Ulmer has developed an art which is virtuostic and experimental in the great tradition of Jazz, yet retains the emotional authenticity of Rock and Blues.
		James Blood Ulmer was born in South Carolina in 1942, and at the age of four his father introduced him to the guitar.
		James Blood Ulmer has developed an art which is virtuosic and experimental in the great tradition of jazz, yet it retains the emotional authenticity of rock and blues.
	cdbaby.com /cd/jbloodulmer/from/relaxradio (619 words)

	James Blood Ulmer
		Ulmer is not about to take a lighthearted romp through tired blues clichés, but is instead committed to a soul-bearing transformation.
		Ulmer is continually searching for a way to impart the blues with the notion of sanctity and redemption.
		Ulmer’s ominous howl and cackle fade to silence, leaving weird abstractions hanging in the air.
	www.hyenarecords.com /james.htm (1811 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: James Blood Ulmer
		Ulmer balanced his late-'80s search for commercial acceptance with several mostly instrumental collaborations — the Phalanx project with George Adams and the revived Music Revelation Ensemble with David Murray —; but at best these records are only qualified successes.
		Ulmer's singing exudes a renewed, raw vigor, and the propulsive support of Ali and Weston is impressive.
		Recorded with a revolving cast of saxophonists Arthur Blythe (the alto player with whom Ulmer recorded in the early '80s), Sam Rivers and Hamiet Bluiett — the improvisations are explosive, and the hornmen, none of whom has played this sort of electric energy music much of late, inject the proceedings with palpable freshness.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=james_blood_ulmer (1104 words)

	James Blood Ulmer: Birthright - PopMatters Music Review
		Built simply around Ulmer's acoustic guitar and voice, Birthright features twelve songs that sound as if they could be 100 years old but also reflect a modern sensibility which grounds them in the here and now.
		To hear Ulmer sing so nakedly about sex, race, and religion while playing such dusty music makes for a striking juxtaposition, and is a strong case for the continued relevance of blues music.
		Ulmer proves that blues which respects the past doesn't have to be spiffed and shined to have contemporary resonance, nor does it have to mimic the outward appearances of the times since passed.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/u/ulmerjamesblood-birthright.shtml (787 words)

	Arts & Events - University of Massachusetts Amherst
		Too primitive for sophisticated jazz audiences; too funky for the four-bar blues crowd; too country for the urban funk kind; too psychedelic for straight-ahead rock fans; his audience, like many of the great artists of the 20th Century, is small yet devout, resulting in cult icon status.
		His legend would be secure just from his work with Ornette Coleman, but since Ulmer began his solo career at the end of the '70's, the South Carolina native has crafted a career that has put him a category reserved for masters like Sonny Sharrock and Derek Bailey.
		Ulmer will bring his latest version of his Music Revelation Ensemble, featuring Aubrey Dayle, Calvin Jones, and a special guest on saxophone.
	www.umass.edu /umhome/events/articles/19907.php (202 words)

	Master's Seminar with James "Blood" Ulmer
		Best known for his “harmolodic” guitar playing, James “Blood” Ulmer’s musical direction has crossed a wide range of styles over the course of his career, from free jazz to pulsating funk to gut-bucket blues.
		Ulmer made his way to New York City in 1971 and began a stint as house drummer in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, one of be-bop’s birthplaces.
		In the 1980’s Ulmer’s playing became increasingly funky, and he formed of a band known as Third Rail that included Parliament-Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell on keyboards and New Orleans’ own Zigaboo Modeliste of the Meters on drums.
	www.tipsevents.com /foundation/blood.htm (437 words)

	Piedmont Talent.com -Your Source for great blues and roots music for over a decade
		Ulmer's playing comes off like John Lee Hooker dueling Ali Fakra Toure, with spoonfuls of sophisticato-jazz chops occasionally oozing through the cracks in the sharecropper's cabin.
		Ulmer's tormented, guttural, gospel-steeped singing intensifies the hypnotic drone â“ this music is at once meditative and enraged; celebratory and heartbreaking; bathed in folklore but strikingly fresh.
		James Blood Ulmer is in the midst of a career revivalâ”an artistic renaissance if you will.
	www.piedmonttalent.com /bios.cfm?ID=82 (820 words)

	Issue Four, Article 11 - James Blood Ulmer
		Ulmer later emerged as one of the prime movers on NYC's still-thriving "Downtown Scene", collaborating with stalwarts like sax player George Adams and ex-Coletrane drummer Rashied Ali.
		A friend had turned me on to "Blood" when I was a junior in high school, and since then I had searched listings for under-21 venues where he might be playing and subsequently discovered the music of some of his peers like Sonny Sharrock and David Fiuczynski.
		It's a crying shame that Ulmer may not be recognized as much for his contributions to avant-garde jazz as he is for a handful of dull funk-rock records that take up a disproportionate amount of space on the shelves of record store chains.
	www.wesleyan.edu /wmj/issue4/11.html (536 words)

	James Blood Ulmer News
		James Blood Ulmer is best known for fusing free jazz, funk and blues into a raw and heady music.
		ODETTA/JAMES BLOOD ULMER ** TRAMWAY, GLASGOW INNOVATIVE guitarist James Blood Ulmer** is greatly respected for his work with jazz luminaries Art Blakey and Ornette Coleman.
		Avant garde guitarist and musical rebel James Blood Ulmer makes no bones about it: He is a living, breathing tapestry of the roots of American music.
	www.topix.net /who/james-blood-ulmer (290 words)

	James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions - PopMatters Music Review
		A succession of "bluesy" albums (very different from blues albums) failed to break Ulmer in with the AAA crowd, and his collaborations with Bill Laswell somehow failed to give him the kind of hipster cred that can sometimes make up for lack of sales.
		Paint a portrait: one of the greatest rock guitarists in the world, passing from memory even as his skills were at their peak.
		This song is the most emotionally raw of anything on either record -- Ulmer identifies with this narrator, a lost kid who tells us, "My mother is sick in the bed, almost dyin' / And I ain't seen my daddy in a long time".
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/u/ulmerjamesblood-noescape.shtml (1043 words)

	Amazon.ca: No Escape From The Blues Elec: Music: James Blood Ulmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Instead, Ulmer and his band bring their own voices to the music, without fundamentally changing the structure of the blues style.
		This is far and away James Blood Ulmer's best blues record to date, and it only further solidifies his 21st century re-invention as one of the blues most authentic voices.
		Ulmer's own tunes "Are You Glad To Be In America" and "Satisfy" are brilliant, performed completely solo.
	www.amazon.ca /Escape-Blues-James-Blood-Ulmer/dp/B0000C505F (756 words)

	JAMES BLOOD ULMER
		Guitarist/singer James “Blood” Ulmer has traveled down many unusual musical pathways in his career, collaborating successfully with such diverse talents as avant-garde innovators/saxophonists Ornette Coleman, Arthur Blythe and David Murray, guitarist/film scorer/world music maven Ry Cooder, and jazz legends such as saxophonist Joe Henderson and drummer Art Blakey, among many others.
		Ulmer, on the other hand, wasn't too sure about doing a project of this type.
		Following the directive of Reid, Ulmer did some exciting experimentation with guitar effects, and on a personal level, he found himself dealing head-on with some issues he'd been avoiding for a long time.
	mixonline.com /recording/interviews/audio_james_blood_ulmer/index.html (1627 words)

	James Blood Ulmer \| Memphis Blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		James Blood Ulmer, that harmolodic guru of the free jazz guitar on the cutting edge, entered Sun Recording Studios in Memphis Tennessee, sat down in front of the microphone and expelled a thoroughly original and personal musical vision through 14 humidly organic examples of the American blues canon.
		Reminiscent of Howlin' Wolf, Charlie Patton, Son House and Blind Willie Johnson, Ulmer's voice is a force of nature, dwarfing the music that accompanies it, even on the steamroller wah-wah arrangement of “I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)”.
		Paced almost as a shuffle, Ulmer sings with an angry resignation and a death-rattle vibrato that is as eerie as it is direct.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=8744 (823 words)

	James Blood Ulmer \| Birthright
		James Blood Ulmer continues the all-out assault on the blues that he began with 2001âs Memphis Blood and continued with No Escape From the Blues, released in 2003.
		Memphis Blood was a tour-de-force of nature that laid waste to all in its critical path.
		James Blood Ulmer has always been an enigmatic guitarist and vocalist.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=17802 (557 words)

	James Blood Ulmer Online Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		James "Blood" Ulmer who sometimes also goes by the Muslim name Damu Mustafa Abdul Musawwir, was born 2.2.1942 in St.Matthews, S.C. He started to play the guitar at the age of 7 with his father's gospel group, the Southern Sons.
		In the 60s he played with bands such as the Savoys, the Del-Vikings, Jewel Brenner, Hank Marr and his own Blood Brothers.
		Early 70s Ulmer met Ornette Coleman with whom he lived, played and studied Coleman's harmolodic music theory for a couple of years.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Quarter/7055/Ulmer (190 words)

	James Blood Ulmer CD Review
		James Blood Ulmer is perhaps better known for his jazz/funk guitar work, but on "Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions" he returns to his blues roots with some style.
		James Blood Ulmer's "Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions" is a great album which grows on you with each play.
		"Memphis Blood..." is well worth tracking down, although you may have to do a bit of legwork to do so, because there have been problems with distribution (in the UK at least), so try starting with the Label M web site (www.labelm.com).
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/2002/jamesbloodulmer-sunsessions-gb.html (555 words)

	James Blood Ulmer interview- Perfect Sound Forever
		Thought there's been hundreds and thousands of hotshots who vowed to take the guitar to the next level after Jimi Hendrix broke the doors open, James 'Blood' Ulmer is one of the very few people to actually do this.
		Ulmer really came to his own and then some as he began his solo careeer at the end of the '70's, putting together this distinct new wave of free jazz with bottom-bumping funk and gut-bucket blues as he began to make his own revolution in music, culminating with 1983's Odyssey.
		James Blood Band was the first fl band to be playing that music in those clubs like Hurrah and Danceteria.
	www.furious.com /perfect/bloodulmer.html (3707 words)

	James Blood Ulmer — Birthright — Hyena
		This disc is the first solo effort of the Southern guitar player, James Blood Ulmer.
		Ulmer has a thick, rich, slightly Southern-sounding voice and makes it work for him with efficacy.
		The performance is not typical for Ulmer (who was nominated for a Grammy Award), but is likely to cause a commotion in the blues community.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=557 (306 words)

	James Blood Ulmer at the Ponderosa Stomp
		The harmolodic guitar master, James Blood Ulmer was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina and taught to sing and play guitar by his father, who fronted a gospel group called the Southern Sons.
		Playing and living with Ornette, Blood was initiated into the harmolodic theory which freed his playing from the usual standard chord progressions.
		At the first Stomp, James Blood Ulmer got together with Jody Williams, Sam Carr and King Lloyd for a set of blues that was more explosive than a so called moab bomb.
	www.knights-maumau.com /music_more.php/19/James+Blood+Ulmer (504 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: James Blood Ulmer
		For decades, James Blood Ulmer has been known for intense, distinctive guitar playing and singing on the cutting edge of jazz and funk.
		No Escape - James Blood Ulmer says he never thought he'd make a blues record, until Vernon Reid convinced him.
		Blues - James Blood Ulmer's thoughts on what artists who play blues must remember.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/jamesbloodulmer.html (150 words)

	eBay - ulmer james blood, CDs, Records items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		JAMES BLOOD ULMER - Are You Glad To Be In America RARE
		JAMES BROWN DEFUNKT FAY LOVSKY JAMES BLOOD ULMER MAG 81
		James Blood Ulmer Black Rock LP James Blood Ulmer
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=ulmer+james+blood&... (400 words)

	Guitar Player - JAMES BLOOD ULMER
		A quarter century ago, avant-garde jazz cat James Blood Ulmer was hailed as the most original guitarist since Hendrix.
		Ulmer’s radical style combined Ornette Coleman’s “harmolodics” with fusion, attracting both the jazz crowd and hip rockers.
		Comparable to the radical break from R&B that James Brown engineered in 1965, Ulmer has connected a direct link back to North Africa, bypassing the European influence on the blues almost entirely.
	www.guitarplayer.com /story.asp?storyCode=9655 (1278 words)

	James "Blood" Ulmer Discography
		Ulmer's guitar, in particular, is prominently audible throughout.
		Tight Hat (Ulmer) (5:03) James "Blood" Ulmer: g, voc Charles Burnham: violin Warren Benbow: dr rec.
		(Ulmer) (7:19) track (6) is a solo by Adams (sax and poetry) James "Blood" Ulmer: g, voc George Adams: ts, voc Amin Ali: b Calvin Weston: d rec.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Quarter/7055/Ulmer/Disko-ulmer.htm (1967 words)

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		The blues hasn’t sounded this fresh in a long, long time. It’s clearly the work of an American music legend continuing to reinvent himself, while remaining as relevant today as at any point in his long and distinguished career.
		"James Blood Ulmer returns to the music of his forebears with a stunning testimonial to the spiritual, psychic, social and existential intensity that's been at the heart of the blues _expression since the beginning and continues to inform the true living blues tradition.
		- Living Blues: "With his weather-beaten voice and hard-strummed guitar scratchings, James Blood Ulmer could clear a room of blues dilettantes with a single album cut.
	www.indiejazz.com /ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=741 (363 words)

	James Blood Ulmer
		Produced by Living Colour’s Vernon Reid and recorded at the fabled Electric Lady Studios, Ulmer’s latest effort continues in the spirit of its predecessor, reinventing the blues in Ulmer’s own incomparable style.
		The album’s concept reflects the blues' migration from the rural south to the booming urban metropolis of New York City; a journey paralleled in Ulmer's own life having grown up in the deep south, but staking his claim as a revered guitarist in NYC's downtown loft jazz scene.
		Throughout the date, Ulmer is down right sanctified, delivering career defining vocal performances on blues standards including "Ghetto Child," "Trouble In Mind" and "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)," while his guitar work is electrified, purely authentic and instantly recognizable.
	www.hyenarecords.com /james_ulmer_2.htm (173 words)

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