Blood & Burger – Guitar Music

James Blood Ulmer

Free jazz has not produced many notable guitarists. Experimental musicians drawn to the guitar have had few jazz role models; consequently, they've typically looked to rock-based players for inspiration. 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 often texturally and chordally based, inflected with the accent of a soul-jazz tenor saxophonist. That's not to say his sound is untouched by the rock tradition -- the influence of Jimi ...
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Blood & Burger Guitar Music

00:00 House People 03:44 Are You Glad To Be In America ? 08:18 Cheering 13:48 Blues Allnight 18:43 Long-Legged Fly 23:49 Play With Fire 29:32 Huit Couché 33:41 Let Me Take Your Home 39:06 Unlimited Marriage 44:16 High Tech Bass, Vocals – Madeo Drums – Arnaud Dieterlen Guitar, Vocals – James Blood Ulmer Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards – Rodolphe Burger Recorded at Les Voûtes & the New Morning, June 2002 (Vintage Mobile 804) Mastered at La Source

2003