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James "Blood" Ulmer: Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980)
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James "Blood" Ulmer: Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980)
EAC rip | FLAC + LOG + CUE | Scans | 309,4 MB | RS | 3% recovery
Label: DIW-400 | Genre: Jazz/Avant-Garde/Free Funk
| “ | Guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer has been heard in many contexts, covering Ornette Coleman on the fantastic, muted Music Speaks Louder Than Words, playing gritty soul blues on the aptly monikered Forbidden Blues. But this 1980 set captures Ulmer in all his glory. When hearing this, there's no doubt why Coleman was such a fan. Ulmer compresses the dual rhythms of drummers Ronald Shannon Jackson and G. Calvin Weston just as Coleman has done with his own Prime Time. Here, you also get compressed dual horns, blown alternately by David Murray and Oliver Lake or Murray and Olu Dara. They play strong melodies, a couple of them coming across as faux marches, with Ulmer string-bending his way between notes and then clustering his way through melodies. Murray plays up to the task more than anyone here, squawking and honking as if he fully grasped Ulmer's vortex-like view of jazz, blues, and all points in between. This is crucial work for the guitarist and for jazz in the post-1960s era. --Andrew Bartlett | ” |
| “ | AMG Review by Nathan Bush In 1972, Ornette Coleman took guitarist James Blood Ulmer under his wing and taught Ulmer the principles of harmolodics, a musical system that treats the elements of harmony, rhythm, and melody equally. On Are You Glad to Be in America?, it drives a series of group improvisations that are simultaneously complex and direct. The sound of Are You Glad? is largely defined by its rhythm section: G. Calvin Weston and Ronald Shannon Jackson's propulsive drumming, Amin Ali's kinetic bass, and Ulmer's tightly wound guitar. The two drummers lay down persistent, tense rhythms that establish the album's nervous energy. Leaving little space to explore a conventional groove (to push and pull at the rhythm), Amin aims his bass at the jittery pulse like everyone else. Yet his playing remains rooted in funk and his edgy, spiked tone is a defining texture. The three musicians construct multiple layers around Ulmer, like a more frantic version of the band in Miles Davis' On the Corner (1972). Shards of jazz, rock, funk, and surf guitar are shuffled together and unfurl in frenetic lines. At times the rhythms are too rigid and the results sound like an experiment from which the musicians are trying to break free. At best, the individuals lose themselves in a highly charged dialogue. On "Time Out," they create a chattering mass so dense it's difficult to discern where one instrument ends and another begins. Building steam from the taut structures, the individual voices of harmony, rhythm, and melody are found in dizzying group improvisations. | ” |
1. Layout
2. Pressure
3. Interview
4. Jazz Is the Teacher (Funk the Preacher)
5. See-Through
6. Time Out
7. T.V. Blues
8. Light Eyed
9. Revelation March
10. Are You Glad to Be in America?
Musicians:
James "Blood" Ulmer: Guitar, Vocal
Amin Ali: Electric Bass
Ronald Shannon Jackson: Drums (except 11)
G. Calvin Weston: Drums (except 3 & 9)
Olu Dara: Cornet (4,5,7)
Oliver Lake: Alto Sax (except 2,3,9,10)
David Murray: Tenor Sax
William Patterson: Rhyhtm Guitar (4)
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VonManstein
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10 Feb 2010 14:17:40
thanks a lot.
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