James Blood's Music Revelation Ensemble - "Street Bride"

[TallFastLoud]

5:45

[RSJinMiami]

This is America's most important jazz guitarist....and has been since about 1980. Thirty years ago in 1981 James and Amin Ali the bass player were together. At the 688 club in 1981 with Grant Calvin Weston on drums......the best show I ever saw.

[pascal3121]

Thanks.

[enwitmol]

I almost thought that was Isac Hays. ha!

[voxhumbug]

ARSMAC1, I will gladly trade you my eternal soul for a tape of this show!

[3rdStoneObliterum]

"James Blood Ulmer tribute" on youtube

[jammmessenger]

FIRE & SUNSHINE !

[guitarsville]

5 stars and more...

[onamemmet]

i've seen cornell rochester play behind takuma and odean pope. people, this is the baddest living drummer on earth; this guy got jazz for blood.

[lesysteme]

I was at this show, thanks for posting! The entire set was blazin

[chapthe]

Great artist. Saw him live in Bad Ischl, Austria. Great, powerful, creative.

[3rdStoneObliterum]

Yes this is Cosmic Scintillation from between the Belt of Orion and the Virgo Supercluster. 1st time I heard it I knew something was never gonna be the same. "Timeless", please, somebody.

[mitjafashion]

This is THE GOODS. Mon I seed nothin like it since I first heard music in the cot! It shook me then- as now it does here.

He goes straight to the heart of the thing, and when there he examines the heart, squeezes it a bit, and then throws it into the air. maniac of sound.. the goods

[meckerschorsch]

Thanks for uploading this musical masterpiece

[syr1811]

Classic! This is really Amazing music. Love almost anything he creates - Such a big, creative pot he's got all this stuff simmering in - Thanks so much for sharing all this, ARSMAC1. I'm a big fan, and have been for more than a few decades.

[tubelojoni]

Absolutely great. Can this stuff fit into any specific genre? I will not even try naming one. It will have to be mixed. Fusion?

[BMayhew60]

Harmolodics my friend. Cheers.

[DannyDesperate]

Titles used in the past include 'Black Rock' and 'No Wave', the latter including most of the late 70s / early 80s NY scene including Sonny Sharrock, Last Exit et al. Whatever you call it, Ulmer's music of this period remains unique and absolutely vital (and criminally overlooked). He is the (Thelonious) Monk of Funk!

[tubelojoni]

Excellent comment and certainly gives me something to go by. But do you think that "harmolodics" can cover all of what he does, has done?

[DannyDesperate]

Perhaps 'Harmolodics' is a bit of a red herring here? It is a way of approaching / organising music, not the music itself. Schoenberg, Boulez et al were similarly tagged as 'serialists'. Check interviews with JBU where he says 'theory' is crucial - if only to discard it!

His elemental sound & style comes from blues, funk, jazz, rock, classical & the unique 'post-Wes / post-Jimi' interaction of his thumb and that big guitar. Harmolodics, lens-like, serves to focus all those elements.

[tomersigel]

Saugeil, so hab´ ich Ulmer immer gemocht!

[mrmctom]

Great music-- This is some of the heaviest Blood Ulmer I've ever heard!!

[LodoGrdzak]

Hey, why wont you allow an embed?

[LodoGrdzak]

Back when James actually played. Man this is great shit. Great post Arsmac!

[arttu321]

Huh, so he doesn't play anymore? :)

[LodoGrdzak]

I guess now he's some kind of ambassador for straight-ahead blues or something. Never takes a solo longer than 30 seconds and...you know, seems to be interested in making an actual living. I'm still a fan; but I guess there are moments in time and history and we've all moved in directions since then.

[viktornolsson]

I'm gonna see him in december and i'm really hoping he will play some of the old stuff, it's a Mike Patton managed venue so you can never tell what is gonna happen.

[kohada64]

any other footage from this gig ? this is great and he doesnt play in this style anymore really

[evolverstudios]

oh man, this is so good

thanks for letting other people see what music can really be like !!!!

[KoolaidAcidKat]

love it!

[maroonlectroid]

love the boots

[chandmahatma]

un grande

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